00:09He was doing it for a long time.
00:11What up though, it’s Jalen Rose and I’m
about to break down some BARS on “Between
00:19I've been following this hip-hop thing since
Kool Herc was throwing parties.
00:25The first time I remember probably getting
mentioned...
00:30I went to KMEL Summer Jam, that was the first
time as a member of The Fab Five, just being
00:37able to travel and realize how much people
appreciated how we put on for the culture
00:43and how much energy we were giving them, yet
these were the artists we were listening to
00:50I know y’all are like, “Let's get to it.”
00:54I appreciate the love.
00:55I know I'll see you at an arena soon.
01:06Really, I might shed a tear.
01:09All athletes want to be artists.
01:11All artists want to be athletes.
01:15But the common denominator is everybody feel
like they ballin’ out.
01:18For him to be elite in his craft and to shout
me out saying he doing what I'm doing at my
01:25And he's a huge basketball fan.
01:27I'll never forget I was playing a game at
New Orleans, I was a member of the Bulls.
01:33The coach at the time, Bill Cartwright, benched,
Jamal Crawford and I, but we were the two
01:38best players on the team.
01:39So, it didn't make sense.
01:41I'm like, he going to bench me and Wayne at
the game.
01:45I'm like, “it’s on.”
01:46They put me in and you can pull it up.
01:49I think I had probably like 25 in like 20
minutes.
01:53Made sure I gave him some dap on the sideline
when I got an and one.
01:58I appreciate the love.
02:09First off, Action Bronson got bars
and I appreciate how he's shown himself to
02:14have staying power in the game.
02:15Because when he first came out people was
trying to see if he was going to have what
02:19it takes to hold his own.
02:21Then Action Bronson came out here and hit
'em with bars like this.
02:25So, I appreciate the love.
02:37You can't tell Detroiters that we didn't discover
America.
02:40There's so many battles, there's so much turbulence
and trials and tribulations that we know that
02:46you need to overcome to survive and let alone
be successful in the 313, 248, 734 however
02:54you want to term it.
02:55When somebody from our hometown, shouts you
out and says they're basically representing
03:02the hometown that you hold down, that's just
love.
03:08And I'm grateful for these bars.
03:28Don’t do ‘em like that Wale!
03:30Because we have this idea sometimes, especially
in the inner city, live fast and die young.
03:35So, I like how he created the metaphor basically
and he compared it to shorts and nobody rock
03:40shorts, dope and long, like the Fab Five.
03:42I ain't saying that we the first to do it.
03:44Michael Jackson wasn't the first person to
moon walk, but he popularized it.
03:47Just how the game works.
04:04He was doing it for a long time.
04:06He basically acknowledged a time that he remembered.
04:09That's what makes this dope.
04:11It's like all of the things that was happening
in April in his life of 1992, he remembered that.
04:19And he remembered what he was doing at that
time.
04:22So, for him to tie it into his bars, the biggest
compliment that artists can pay to you is
04:29to shout you out or put you in their bars.
04:32So, it’s love, Styles.
04:34I appreciate you, family.
04:47And by the way, Grant is my brother.
04:50You know something's a good documentary, when
somebody is speaking 20 years later about
04:55something, but people take what you say like
it was present time, which it wasn't.
05:02I was discussing in the documentary how we
felt about players at other schools, in particular,
05:10And some of the things that we felt and or
said that we weren't so very proud of.
05:15That was one of them.
05:17As I started to get older, I realized Grant
Hill had the childhood that I wanted.
05:23I didn't want to grow up in the hood.
05:25I didn't want to be poor.
05:27I had a father that was a professional athlete
too, except he lived with his, I never met mine.
05:34I wanted what he had, I just didn't realize
it then.
05:36So, it's all love, but these bars are...woo.
05:51Kobe's really good at basketball.
05:54One of the all time greats.
05:55And I was standing there up close and personal
on the team that saw him get that 81 and what
06:00I want to teach all of you young people out
there that ooh and ah, every time you all
06:04see a crossover, you all fall out of the stands
and you all don't even pay attention to the
06:08person and whether they made or missed a shot.
06:10Go back and watch that game again.
06:12He didn't celebrate once.
06:14He didn't taunt once, he was that locked in
to putting the smack down like a grown man.
06:21He stayed disciplined.
06:23Because you know what happens when you taunt,
when you have 41 you don't get 51, you don't
06:28get 61, you got them double, quadruple teaming,
you got them wanting to hurt you.
06:31I want people to take that from him, his discipline,
his focus, and definitely the second highest
06:38scoring game in the history of the NBA.
06:40He put the smack down and I got a chance to
see it up close and personal.
06:53That was my career high in threes.
06:55My daughter at a young age just moved to Atlanta
with her mom.
07:01I'm like, “I gotta ball today.”
07:11So, let me tell you what's dope about that.
07:13Three of those guys are in the hall of fame, one
of them ain’t, but I bet you I'm the only
07:19one that got a chance to break bread with
Master P. at his house.
07:24Thank you hip-hop culture.
07:25Appreciate you Colonel.
07:36Freakin' ninjas anyway, like MJ.
07:39I can't believe today was a good day.”
07:42Basically what that means is he's doing it
all.
07:45And I liked that, he was like the Lakers beat
the Supersonics, I like how he dropped that
07:51He was representing his squad.
07:53And unfortunately for Seattle, they don't
have a team.
07:55The great people of Seattle deserve a squad!
07:59I cannot, will not, am not try to pick out
a favorite.
08:03There was so many people that showed me love
to be in their videos, to be in their movies,
08:08to shout me out in their records.
08:09Okay, I can't pick the best shout out.
08:13I'll just say I appreciate the love and I'm
forever grateful.
08:18For those that don't know, I remember a period
of time being in L.A., having a spot in Santa
08:24Monica, not only playing basketball with Master
P. and by the way I beat him for $20,000 in
08:31I still want my No Limit gear or whatever
gear you selling because you such an entrepreneur.
08:35Send me of them noodles!
08:38I need some of them noodles P!
