Too Short On LeBron, Jay-Z In 2010: “I think he was thinking about signing LeBron and having him play for the Nets”
Oakland hip hop legend Too Short has been in the news the last couple of days because of his interview on the Scoop B Radio Podcast.
On Monday’s episode of Scoop B Radio, Too Short revealed to me that he believes that Jay-Z made the remake of “Blow The Whistle” to entice Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James to join the Nets back in 2010.
In the interview, Too Short discussed Jay-Z’s 2008 diss track, Blow the Whistle, a song aimed at former Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson. The song was made in response to Stevenson calling LeBron James overrated.
In the diss track, Jay-Z said:
Uh! Ask my n**** Lebron!
We so big we ain’t gotta respond
When you talkin’ to a don, please have respect like you’re talking’ to your mom
We let the money do the talkin’
As you see we be talkin’ rather often (chatterbox!)
The ROC Boys in the buildin’
Another hundred fifty million don’t it sound like we yellin?!!!
Who the f*** overrated?! If anything they underpaid him
Hatin’ that’s only ‘gonna make him spend the night
Out of spite with the chick you’ve been datin’
We the best of the best
We ‘gon be here so the rest could take a rest
I gotta get this off my chest
No pause none of that s***, get off my d***!!!
Click Here To Check Out Too Short’s appearance on the Scoop B Radio Podcast. (Too Short’s account of the whole James/Jay-Z situation begins at about the 5 minute mark of the interview)
“So I guess in his mind he was gearing up to, at that point, I think he was thinking about signing LeBron and having him play for the Nets and he was courting LeBron and LeBron was special to him,” he told me on Scoop B Radio.
“and ol’ boy [Stevenson] stepped on LeBron’s toes talking sh*t and Jay was like, ‘I’m going to shut this down,’” he said. “And he probably saw the moment where the crowd reacted to the song and then that was on his mind.”
Too Short also gives an account on how Jay-Z went about requesting to use Too Short’s song:
“He was like, ‘Could you send me the instrumental to that?,’” he recalls. “If a rapper called me and said, ‘Send me the instrumental,’ I’ll probably say something like, ‘We didn’t even bounce the instrumental, so we don’t even have one.’ When Jay called, I was like, ‘It will be there in a couple of hours, man.’ I had no idea what he was going to do with it, but I am glad he did.’”
