Athletes sticking strictly to their respective professional sport is sometimes too much to ask. Bo Jackson is perhaps the most successful at crossing over to another sport, as he dominated both baseball and football. But some athletes take it a step further and attempt to leave sports altogether. That’s precisely where Bleacher Report recently drew the line. Bleacher Report has published a list of the worst athlete rappers of all time.
Ranking the athletes from “worst to worstest,” Bleacher Report has positioned Kobe Bryant as its worst athlete rapper ever. Bleacher Report notes the collaboration between Kobe Bryant and Tyra Banks on “K.O.B.E.” as “what happens when the unyielding hubris of a first-round draft pick collides violently with the fame-hungry desperation of a washed-up model.” Ouch! They continue, writing “The result is a vacuous black hole of self-admiring struggle, and wordplay cheesy enough to make Will Smith sound like DMX by comparison.”
A “standout lyric” from the track selected by Bleacher Report: “I don’t know, yo,” Kobe raps on the track. “These women come and go / Like the wind they blow / How do I know for sure? / When God talk to me, give me a signal / But until then, all my ears hear is just let me flow.”
Check out the full list of the worst athlete rappers according to Bleacher Report below:
1. Kobe Bryant
2. John Cena
3. Roy Jones Jr.
4. Chris Johnson
5. Juan Pierre
6. Steve Francis
7. Chris Webber
8. DeSean Jackson
9. Clint Dempsey
10. The ’86 Los Angeles Rams
11. Lamar Odom
12. Serena Williams
What do you think of their list? Do you agree or disagree? Is there anyone you would add?
Source: HipHopDX