Shaquille O’Neal is back in rap.
The NBA legend, who released four hip-hop albums in the ’90s, will release a new single on May 2nd called “King Talk” in honor of the NBA playoffs. A collaboration with Ghanaian-American rapper Blackway.
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O’Neill announced on February 7 that his twitterInstagram and TikTok celebrating LeBron James’ passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the all-time leading scorer in NBA history.
The 51-year-old entertainer had musical success in the 90s, including platinum-selling albums. shack diesel, released in 1993. (Can We Rock)” and “(I Know I Got) Skillz” – both of which made the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart – as well as the late A Tribe Called Quest rapper’s Phife Dawg, Def Jef. , which also includes a collaboration with Fu-Schnickens. Some of the tracks were produced by EPMD’s Erick Sermon and Tribe’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
O’Neill follow-up, 1994’s Shaq Fu: Da Return, went gold and featured songs by Method Man, RZA, Redman and Keith Murray. 1996 third album You Can’t Stop the Rainincluded collaborations with Notorious BIG, Jay-Z, Rakim, DJ Quick, Mobb Deep, and Peter Ganz. and his 1998 album, respectreleased his own rap songs featuring Tyra Banks in the early 2000s and featured a collaboration with Kobe Bryant, who also rapped on the remix of Destiny’s Child’s Grammy-winning hit “Say My Name.”
In recent years, O’Neal has moonlighted as DJ Diesel, playing electronic dance music at festivals and his own pre-Super Bowl extravaganza. Shack’s Fun HouseO’Neal has also released electronic dance singles including collaborations with popular DJ producers such as Steve Aoki, Wuki, NITTI, NGHTMRE, Riot Ten, 4B and Eliminate.
In a recent interview, he compared the rush of performing live on stage to playing on a basketball court. hollywood reporter.
“It’s like going to a basketball game and people coming up and cheering and supporting you,” he said in February. Shack’s Fun House“I just want people to have fun.”
“King Talk” will be produced by Koko and released on streaming platforms via Hive Music/Position Music.Blackway is best known for appearing on the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on “What’s Up Danger,” a collaboration with duo Black Caviar. His song “Heavyweight” was used in his Songs of the Season campaign for the NFL. The campaign highlighted the music of up-and-coming artists and featured their music on air throughout his football season.
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