That Was Then, This Is Now

Football steps into the cipher.






I attribute the chasm between these two exercises in football player chest-thumping to the intentions for distribution - something for the fans versus an inside joke that leaked onto the internet. I don't think we can use this for a 'things done changed' kind of argument about how rap or football has undergone a moral descent. The Miami thing is locker room talk with a beat under it, removed from the locker room and tossed into the public domain. Men have always joked about this kind of stuff - Walter Payton and Jim McMahon probably did it,  your dad and his bros probably did too -  they just didn't have the beat from an Aaliyah song and a bootlegged copy of ProTools to record it. Then again, I don't think it's a stretch to say that these amateur MCs are imitating rap as they perceive it, performing the role of rapper if you will. Maybe it's best to just sit back and remember that athletes are terrible fucking rappers and laugh. Jesus, these songs are corny.