Sports and hip hop go hand in hand…we hear rappers mentioning athletes names in their lyrics…while players get hyped up for big games to those same songs. So it makes sense that many athletes would make the transition into music…and even though it’s happened so many times before, it always surprises me when I see an NBA player break into the hip hop world. We’re counting down the top athletes who also are rappers…starting off with the person who is regarded as the best player in the NBA…Lebron James.
