But basketball will still represent Sunday at the awards show anyway. Preparations for the Grammys have pushed the Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers out of Staples Center this week. ‘Cause we want to be them, and they want to be us.” “I swear sports and music are so synonymous. That’s understandable as the music and sport are each other’s biggest fans.ĭrake emphasized this in his debut album: It’s mainly concentrated in rap and hip-hop, the genres dominating the charts and ingrained in the NBA culture. Artists are name-dropping more players than public address announcers. With astonishing frequency, NBA players are being mentioned in songs, many of them worldwide hits. Not only is the song catchy, so is the trend. My brotha post shared by Book on at 10:56pm PDT “Obviously I stayed up from that moment and the rest of the day,” Booker said, “just banging it.” The official video has more than 450 million views on YouTube and Scott performed the song at last year’s Super Bowl halftime show.Īnd it was instantly downloaded in a hotel suite in Greece by a Suns guard who felt he’d just splashed the game-winning shot. Released in August of 2018, it was the first song in history to spend 30 weeks in hip-hop’s top 10 rankings. The hook was straight from “Sicko Mode,” the seven-time platinum song by Travis Scott with an assist from Drake.
“See the shots that I took, wet like I’m Book.”
Somewhat disheveled at that very moment, Booker needed a minute to realize what the fuss was about, and then he saw the verse sent by text: Well, no, this was bigger, actually: He was dropped by Drake.įriends and teammates called to tell him he was mentioned in the country’s biggest hit. The first thought that ran through his groggy head: Maybe I was traded by the Suns. LOS ANGELES - He was asleep in Greece, halfway around the world, enjoying an escape before the start of his fourth NBA season when he was disturbed by the incessant buzzing of a cell phone on vibrate.ĭevin Booker tried to ignore the noise at first, then it dawned on him (at dawn) that this could be important.
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