Former Boston Celtic point guard Kyrie Irving has been his usual enigmatic self of late.
He’s been stirring up controversy by delivering a prepared statement through a third party for his media day press availability to kick of this season with his new team the Brooklyn Nets and making Celtics fans breath sighs of relief they won’t have to rationalize this sort of behavior on their team.
But when he hasn’t been swearing off speaking to the press, the mercurial point guard has been picking up a new way to deploy his esoteric, stream-of-consciousness wordplay into a new sphere: making rap music with it.
Brooklyn Nets PG Kyrie Irving’s been dedicating time to music in his spare time.
Irving shared some of his work via his IG story today. Irving tagged his friend & St. Patrick’s HS teammate Jerry Green, a music producer to the video. pic.twitter.com/dQWyhEFsiM
— 👑📍Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson, M.A. (@ScoopB) December 6, 2020
We’ll let you judge yourselves of what sort of lyricist the polarizing player is based off of the sample above.
In it, he drops gems like: “We’re rocking with the ancestors, I’m doing what I’m supposed to do. I’m painting life’s canvas, I’m moving like an artist. Similar to my to my progress, I’m on a team full of martyrs.”
Irving ends the verse with a shout-out to a Los Angeles Laker legend and his daughter; “Paradise is Mamba, throwing peace to Gianna.”
Check his flow out in the tweet above, h/t Scoop B Robinson for the find; we’re not sure how becoming a rapper fits in with keeping a lower media profile this season, but we wish him the best, as always.
