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Jay-Z Diss Track Enlivens Bullshit NBA Playoff Feud

By Rob Harvilla, Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 4:59PM
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Categories: fuck a blog

As a mediocre-basketball fanatic, you are naturally enthralled by the Cleveland Cavaliers-Washington Wizards first-round clash; so, too, inexplicably, is Jay-Z. And Soulja Boy. I can make this relevant to your life. I promise.

The video above features Jay-Z's new diss track, a freestyle (god, I hope it's a freestyle) over Too Short's "Blow the Whistle," first played at a Washington D.C. nightclub Friday night and aimed at Wizards shooting guard DeShawn Stevenson. A brief summary of how this happened: Prior to the series, DeShawn declares that Cavs superstar Lebron James is overrated. Lebron responds that actually responding to such a jibe would be like Jay-Z responding to a diss from Soulja Boy. The Wizards respond by getting Soulja Boy courtside seats for game 3 of the series, which they win. Jay-Z decides to respond himself. (The Washington Post, God love 'em, has been all over this.)

I cannot in good conscience recommend "Blow the Whistle (Anderson Varejao Flopped Again)" as a musical entity. But this is just loopy enough to be moderately entertaining, especially Sunday afternoon, game 4 of the series, during which the uptight TV announcers were forced to try to explain this calamity to the large swath of home viewers ignorant of rap-feud aesthetics. But though I grudgingly ride with the Cavs on this one, I must take umbrage at the announcers' dismissal of Soulja Boy as a "one-hit wonder." Bow down to "YAHHH," friends.

Ah: To make this relevant to your life, Jay-Z is probably siding with Lebron here because he aims to woo the guy from Cleveland to Brooklyn in a couple years, just in time to join the relocated Nets, who will play in a fancy new arena whose construction will probably involve bulldozing your apartment.

Lest you be curious, the Cavs are up 3 games to 1 in the series, which continues Wednesday night in Cleveland. The winner will triumphantly advance to the next round vs. the Boston Celtics, whereupon they will be beaten like gongs.

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Comments (23)

mike says:

jay z is the bast

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 6:10PM
gary spitznagel says:

ive got a new found respect for hova... and to the waizards fans out there, not only doe jay got is back but the entire city of clrveland does too!!! this is the 216 bitches.

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 7:09PM
Lando Link says:

This is all so stupid. LeBron needs to let this petty nonsense slide.

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 10:22PM
jeanette says:

that right jayz and lebron are claiming to be so big(kids) yeah that's right!

Lebron is overrated he never had a ring, no mvp trophy and got swept last year!

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 11:09PM
John says:

Jeanette you are fucking stupid, just because lebron doesnt have a ring doesnt mean he isnt good


Posted On: Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 11:38PM
king of Crakron says:

deshawn might get sniped this wed. night in
C-town. punk bitch deserves. lebron will no doubt have at least 3 rings & 1-2 mvp's within 5 years. reppin the 330 to the 216 Crakron to Thieveland.

Posted On: Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 11:42PM
Matt says:

3 rings; what is he going to get traded to LA or Boston. This is so stupid LeBron doesn't even like Cleveland (Thievland C-town wow with those names you must be such a hard city oohhhh) he reps NY when he goes out.

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 12:29AM
shane says:

jeanette doesn't know what the hell she is talkin bout......he hasn't even been in the league that long....and he did get swept in the finals last year but he basically single handedly beat the pistons in the conference finals and they a good squad

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 1:42AM
joy says:

I can't believe you clowns. Is this basketball or what. Yea DeShawn said he is over rated. So what its called talking game trash. I got so much respect for Jay, but you are a franchise owner. Sit back and worry about your NETS. Them boys and yes I said boys need to keep it on the hard wood. And DC club owners need to relize that when Lebron go's back to Clev, these are the wizards that throw parties in your venues.
DMV Stand up!

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 9:21AM
ells says:

Cant we all just get along.
Go Wizards!!!!

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 9:40AM
DC 4 Eva says:

Jay is not a ball player, DeShawn is not as good as LJ, so they should let their talk speak thru their playing ball, as for J, keep your beef in the rap game, are you his POPPA? Come on dude I thought you was better than that, if that's the cas HOVA, make a rap about our president Bush, make a rap about the kids in TX at the plantation, make a rap about the presidential race sense you want to get involved with B-Ball trash talk.. Be the man "WE" thought you were Sean Carter...!!!!!!

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 11:42AM
brian says:

while i'll admit that nicknames like Crakron(Akron) and Thieveland(Cleveland) don't make my hometown all that happy, i must say that Lbj does like Cleveland. He just happens to be a Yankee fan. that's legal. to say he doesn't like Cleveland is plain ignorance. after all he's from here. and before you say "he's from Akron", remember that Akron and Cleveland are only 30 miles apart, and are pretty much one very large metro area. and if people want to jump all over Jay z for his part, than i believe Soulja bitch deserves a little bit of the blame as well.

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 4:10PM
Lebron is Homo says:

Lebron is overrated, Cavs are overratted, Cleveland is overrated and anybody on this blog cheering for Lebron or the Cavs is overrated.

Go Wiz


Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 4:45PM
Tha Realest says:

Eva, I see you are passionate about your team. It's over, the Wizards are done. No more magic for them. Too bad your star is injured. Arenas is a a quality player. Stevenson is a crackhead at best. In the league eight years and he will be most known for hacking Lebron James and making bogus comments. He needs to stop dating substitutable chicks in Destinys Child.

Oh and on Hova, he already made songs about those things you mentioned. I guess quoting him here would be appropriate. "Do you fools listen to music or do your just skim through it?" -Renegade, Jay-Z

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 5:16PM
rob says:

I take great pride in having triggered an argument in which someone under the handle "Lebron Is Homo" tries to argue that Cleveland is overrated. Please provide evidence of someone -- anyone -- overrating Cleveland. Or rating. Or underrating. In fact I will accept anything in the vein of "not shitting-on completely."

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 5:53PM
DCnative says:

listen to Pro'verb's song PSA. its a diss back to Jay and Lebron. its at least 1000x better than "blow the whistle" the gayest song known to man. i bet jay z actually had to write that shit. it is a pathetic piece of shit song. and for deshawn, he is one of the best defensive players in the league and probably the 2nd or 3rd best defensive guard behind bruce bowen. lebron is good and deshawn is good at what he does.

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 8:51PM
jeanette says:

john you are stupid I did not say Lebron is not good of course he is...he is just overrated.....hahaha peace out!

And shane i got news for you lEBRON just got lucky last year. He may pass the wizards but that's about it!

Posted On: Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 11:06PM
SRiv says:

DC, notice how you said 2nd or 3rd best defensive player...well hell, he might as well be 4th because if you're not #1, no one gives a shit about you. Just because he can throw some punches and score all of 8 points a game makes him a dirty player who is classified as a nobody. He's doing it for the attention obviously. Only the strong and poised will prevail in this series.

Stevenson who?

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 7:29AM
joe says:


"listen to wackest rapper ever Pro'verb's song PSA is wack so is Stevenson!

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 11:29AM
lou says:

the fued between the wizards and lebron has definetly hyped this series! and i thought it was cute for stevenson to invite souljah boy to the game, good counter play for him. but as big of a jay-z fan i am, he overstepped his boundaries writing a diss song about an NBA team, when the team he part owns is watching the playoffs at home with the rest of us. either way, it added a lil excitement,and gave broke mufukkas like us something to blog about.

Cmon HAWKS it ain't over yet! Lets get back in to this and bring it back to the A!

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 10:15PM
james says:

Soulja boy sucks at rapping i think lebron used a good comparison

Posted On: Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 8:27PM
K.g says:

LB IS GREAT PLAYER..

BUT LAKERS ARE A GREAT TEAM.. THE EAST IS TOO WEAK FOR THE WEST, LAST TIME THE WADE WAS IN THE BUILDING NOW ITS LAKER DYNASTY TIME!!!!!!!

KOBE FOR MVP

Posted On: Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 9:12PM
Anonymous says:

yo suck ma left nut

Posted On: Friday, May. 29 2009 @ 12:07PM

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