Hip Hop x Basketball -- The Future
Okay, so we have talked about the past, we have brought things up into the present. The very natural next question is “well what does the future hold?” As much as I would love to say that I have the answer to that question, the fact remains simply that I cannot have such information. This coming year, the NBA Commissioner of the hip hop era is retiring and one of his understudies will take his position. It will remain to be seen whether that means that he will continue the non hip hop friendly approach that Stern attempted within the past ten or so years or if he will simply let things fall to the way of profitability of the time just before those years. What we DO know is that kids are still playing ball, even if not outdoors as much as they did when those around my own age did. What is known is that rappers are still dropping basketball metaphors and are still seen courtside at games. I cannot imagin...