On Friday, the internet was all abuzz with Serena Williams. Yes, she beat Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-3 in a Madrid Open quarterfinal. But the real news was the leak from an apparently forthcoming rap track. The tennis star is just the latest athlete to get behind the mic – joining the ranks of boxer Manny Pacquiao, basketball great Shaquille O’Neal and even the ‘86 Mets. Today, NPR sports correspondent Mike Pesca joins us for a look back at what happens when athletes get into the music game.
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Speaking of wrestlers what about Macho Man's album "Be A Man"- the title track is a diss on Hogan!
This episode is just a tiny bit better than the lady with the Phd in "Reggaeton"!!
ouch!!!
Hulkamaniac. Scarred for life.
manny p, u can't sing,shut the hell up please. btw- i think non-north american athletes, are more comfortable with showing a soft or romantic side,than their U.S. counterparts. swagga' is not pandemic in the rest of the world.
Does this count? I wasn't Rod Stewart a professional or semi-professional soccer player in Scotland before becoming, well, Rod Stewart? Not too shabby...
C'mon, John. Let's not equate someone who is simply reciting words over a manufactured soundtrack with an actual musician like Bernie Williams. It's an insult to Bernie's talent and all the years of work he's obviously invested in his muse.
Although not an athlete Steve Martin does a credible job on his banjo. He put on a good show with his steep canyon rangers and was his usual funny self in your Greene Space.
*JOHN Cena - not Mike.
Scott Radinsky, who was a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and LA Dodgers among others was the lead singer of the punk bands Ten Foot Pole and Pulley in the early to mid nineties. They were signed to Epitaph Records. I saw them back then and it definitely wasn't a vanity project.
I saw Bernie Williams live in the city. He was very entertaining and put on a good show. As John said - would I have gone if he wasn't a Yankee. hhmmm maybe not.
Proffesional wrestler Mike Cena appears on a song and in the video of underground hip hop star Murs's song H-U-S-T-L-E. He beats up random passers by and Murs in the video..very funny...and his lyrics were decent.
These desperate grasps at "musical" subject matter are absolutely PAINFUL!!
John, you're a WHOLE lot smarter than this!!
P.S.
You can still find it on YouTube--where it should stay for the rest of her career and beyond.
Serena shouldn't quit her day job. Oh wait - she does NOT like playing tennis. She hates it all the way to the bank!
These athletes think they can do everything
While no fan of rap, Serena's attempt at rap can be summed up in the phrase, Double fault."
Grade C pre-packaged corporate rap music: the music that can be made by people with absolutely no musical talent or ability.
it should be serena's right to do tennis,HER way. if others want to make it their religion,thats their perogative, and good for them.
The only lyric many would like to hear from Serena Williams is an admission that she is in fact a very sore loser, and that her behavior at the 2009 U.S. Open when, while losing her semi-final match to Kim Cleister, she waived her raquet menacingly at the head of a linesperson who dared call a foot fault. This was in addition to a barrage of obscenities that made Johnny Mac sound like a boy scout.
Give us a break.
Proof of the further degrading of American society.
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