Kobe Bryant completed his profession with 5 championships, two Olympic gold medals and 18 All-Star appearances, however do you know he additionally had a rap profession within the late 90s?
Whereas juggling his commitments to the Lakers, Bryant signed a cope with Sony Information in 1999 to launch his personal studio album.
For 3 weeks throughout the summer season of 1998, Kobe lived within the mansion of hip-hop document govt Steve Stoute in New Jersey.
He was going clubbing with Stoute and eating on the best eating places on the town.
However Bryant didn’t care about that. He needed to rap battle with the very best of them.
One evening on the Hit Manufacturing unit, he teamed with CHEIZAW member Broady Boy to battle Punch and Phrases, (through Grantland).
However, Broady ended up operating out of lyrics and Kobe informed him “Yo, you bought to be in lyrical health, man,” referencing a widely known lyric by Canibus.
Earlier than his debut he’d executed a number of collabs, together with remixing the Future’s Youngster’s Say My Identify, Brian McKnight’s Maintain Me in 1997, Shaquille O’Neal’s 1998 music 3X Dope and made a music with 50 Cent, Nas and Broady Boy for Bryant’s personal music Thug Poet.
Kobe’s solo single named Ok.O.B.E. was debuted on the 2000 All-Star recreation the place he carried out it reside with Tyra Banks.
“What I reside for? Basketball, beats and broads,” Bryant says on the monitor. “From Italy to the US, sure, it’s uncooked.”
A spring 2000 launch date was set for Visions – Bryant’s debut album, nonetheless the album was by no means launched after the primary single wasn’t precisely a success.
By the top of 2000, Sony had dropped the Lakers star from its label and aside from in a 2011 Taiwanese Sprite business, Kobe didn’t ever make a public return to music.
Three years in the past, the album leaked on-line, however seems to have since been eliminated.
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