“With the NBA Finals looming, ‘NBA Countdown’s Jalen Rose talks about why ballers love bars.
I’ve listened to so much rap music: starting with [Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s] ‘The Message’ and Run-DMC ‘Rock Box’ in the early ‘80s, Public Enemy’s Yo! Bum Rush The Show…all the way to the present. Just being a child of the ‘70s and ‘80s, seeing how hip-hop has evolved in our country first-hand — while I love the beat, and the head nods and the hooks, the thing keeps me coming back is when I gotta rewind, and say, ‘I need to learn that verse.'”
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