How Shaquille O’Neal and Damian Lillard made it in hip-hop as NBA stars

Shaquille O'Neal and Damian Lillard are the two who have generated the staying power to make it as an NBA standout and as a hip-hop artist.

Shaquille O’Neal, Ice Cube highlight deep roots of basketball and rap culture

Shaq and Ice Cube revisit how basketball and hip hop built a lasting cultural connection that will last the test of time.
Basketball Network on MSN

Shaquille O’Neal claims he’d still be famous without basketball: “I definitely would have been a rapper”

Shaquille O’Neal reveals what he’d be without basketball.
ABC News

Shaquille O'Neal calls out LaVar Ball, implies he's the original Big Baller, in new rap song

— -- Shaquille O'Neal attacked LaVar Ball in a new diss track released on TMZ.com on Friday.? "I've been doing this a long time, when you was averaging two points, riding the pine," he said of ...