Basketball legend, DJ, and rapper Shaquille O’Neal has spoken concerning the time Ice Dice stopped him from releasing a Dr. Dre-produced tune named That’s Gangsta.
Talking on a brand new episode of The Massive Podcast, Shaq remembers how Dice had determined to scrap the tune as a result of he thought the previous NBA star was “extra than simply gangsta”.
“Dice was govt producing one in all my information and he put me within the studio with Dr. Dre,” Shaq says. “I did a tune referred to as That’s Gangsta. Dice heard it and was like, ‘Nope. We’re not releasing this.’ Dre did the beat.”
“I believed it was good,” he provides, “after which I performed it for Dice… He was like, ‘Shaq, you’re a fucking Laker, bro. I don’t need you speaking about nothing gangsta. We not doing none of that shit.’ And it by no means got here out.”
Explaining his causes for pulling the brakes on the discharge, Dice says: “Shaq is a dope MC, however I simply felt the file was off-brand for him as a result of, to me, he’s extra than simply gangsta.”
“He’s beloved by tens of millions, beloved by children. He already established that. And why go backward while you’re already ahead? You’re already a family title.”
For Shaq, that incident taught him an essential life lesson — to “keep true to who you might be,” he says.
“Trigger I ain’t gonna lie. You guys wanna be basketball gamers, I needed to be y’all rising up.”
The athlete-turned-rapper has launched 4 studio albums to date, together with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum.
Watch the total interview beneath.
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