Hip Hop Reacts To LeBron’s Decision
July 9, 2010 @ 12:20 AM EDT
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While Kanye’s pre-mature tracklist was revealed, Yeezy took a flick with Bron Bron moments before King James announced that Miami would be his new throne. A lot of mixed emotions ensued including the letter by Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, but also a celebrating one from new team member, Dwayne Wade. The Hip Hop community also watched on and spilled their thoughts on Twitter. Catch their reactions when you proceed.
LETS GO MIAMI…..WEVE BEEN A JOKE FOR 4 YEARS………..NO MORE BULL SHIT, NO MORE GETIN LAUGHED OUT THE PLAYOFFS…..lAKERS ARE THE TEAM TO BEAT, LETS GO MY NIGGA BEST PLAYER DWYANE WADE AND LEBRON FUCKIN JAMES, AND MY TORONTO NIGGA CHRIS BOSH PEACE AND LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2011 CHAMPS
Yo, PLEASE do not compare this dude to jordan and kobe EVER again. I’m not even a Kobe fan!!
death at the cleveland relief fund!
the best player in the league + superstar + all star + 9 scrubs wont win a ring. at least this year.
they still need role players to win it all.
but this team is SCARY and can win on any given night
LA 3 peat
CThaGod KILLED ME WITH THAT. LMAOOOOO
Who’s gonna take the last shot to win a game, cause the situation won’t dictate it and niggas wanna know.
who gives a shiiiiiiiiiit!!
okay he joins Miami, sucks for whoever bought a lebron-cavs jersey last season..and good to know we have a better competition than Celtics.
LAKERS!!!!!!!!!
3 MUTHAFUCKIN PEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
loyalty vs. self gratification …clearly, this guy is egotistical, as he chose the latter
oh I forgot to mention, his best buddy, ya know Jay-Z, did the same thing to his ‘family’ over at RocAFella, it was only a matter of time before his young protege outshined his backstabbing work of art.
LMAO, Charlemagne is the fuckin truth!!! And SMDH @ DJ Khaled!
PUNCH THESE NIGGAS LIGHTS OUT LIKE LEBRON JAMES – YOUNG BUCK (Beg For Mercy) ahahah…i think thats how it go….anyways
Jay-Z aint win FINALLY…..(Jay-Z fucking STAN saying this by the way)
Good Looks Lebron!
Fuck L.A……. MiaMi Bitch
ok so the jordan comparisons can stop Jordan Kobe all did it with the team they came in with i mean they went thru the ups and downs and their downs were way lower than lebron try not making the playoff low Low for lebron is not reaching the finals with a 60+ win season
I mean you gotta do what you gotta do to get your ring but i still kind of feel like KG spit on minnesota when you a franchise player if you cant get it done with the team that brought you in you cant be in the discussion of best ever becuz the best make it do with what they got
at the end of the day these nigga not winning the ship this year maybe next or the year after they got 5 yrs together which one idk which 1 but 1 will be on the decline real bad I say they get 1 title together then 1 of them going to get the boot and the other 2 going to take another
but next year I doubt it too young dwayne and lebron ego
the real loser in this is cleveland putting all they hopes in lebron i mean while they have been waiting and all these lebron pleading and shit the Kniccs have signed Amare Bulls Signed Boozer
SMH all these niggas had to band together to get at Kobe, they better win with this bitch made move. Lebron you lose points playa.
Yo, Please do not compare anybody to Jordan ever. In history.
Chris Bosh is from Dallas so am i….i support my cites talent so I can root for the heat without jumping on the banwagon even tho I didn’t fuk with that nigga them 7 years in Toronto but I can Now ahahahahahahaha
That what yu call a Deep-V.!!
finally da 305 is in the house!!!!!!!!!!!and dont for get bout the dolphins!!!!!!!!!
Why is kanye’s chest so lubricated?
@Loud Fuck You!
@Loud
muthafuck Miami, muthafuck Heat. muthafuck Lebron..and muthafuck YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO THE FUCK CARES WHERE HES GONE THE LAKERS STILL RUNNING THIS SHIT BELIEVE THAT… THEY CAN GET ALL THE NIGGAS TOGETHER AT MIAMI AND KOBE WILL STILL KNOCK THEM NIGGAS DOWN
LeBron James is the next Scottie Pippen!……Lakers 3 Peat! ..it been plenty of dream teams in the past dat didnt work
hold on he moved from a poor Cleveland team to a poor Miami team for less money? This nigga seriously think hes gonna win a Championship at Miami? fuck out of here… a City where hes a god to a City where hes just Lebron in a wack Miami team. Miami aint winning no ring next year… real talk
so this faggot ass nigga ran off to join his 2 boyfriends at Miami and dream about winning a ring but there aint no dream team without Kobe… that nigga will be extra motivated next year to beat these 3 wack niggas, watch out
man this was a business move. you can’t tell me that if lebron wasn’t playing well in cleveland that they wouldn’t trade his ass in a hurry. if he wasn’t giving them what they needed they would drop his ass. they ain’t giving him what he needed so he dropped they ass. one man, not even jordan, can win a ring. lebron supporting cast wasn’t up to par. plain and simple. they was suspect consistently.
then the cavs owner goes on a rant about lebron being a trader and a coward. you didn’t do your damn job in the first place. and then lebron told him he didn’t want to be 31 years old with bad knees and no rings. dan gilbert didn’t take advantage while lebron was under contract so shut the fuck up.
@ will the bulls and lakers got jordan and kobe good players. not so much for cleveland
lebron ‘s team on the cavs was jus fine. look at the regular season stats , how can ya argue with me on dat the reason why he aint wearing a ring, especially this year is cuz he choked , plain and simple. CAVS had he proper spot in the reg season standings. they choked like b rabit vs. proof in the beginning of 8 Mile. ~~Bonded~by~Brotherhood~~
Call me a false prophet if you like but Lebron James will never win a championship
with this move he made, he just brought down the meaning of winning a ring. when or if he wins a ring, it wont even matter. i think a lot of people will never acknowledge their championship if they ever do win one. am i the only one that feels like this?
Doesn’t surprise me. Hope it works out for him.
I’m mad no one else asked, but why was ‘Ye there?
still, the fact remains – as well as reports being put out now by ESPN and SI – LeBron NEVER formally called the owner (Dan Gilbert) to tell him ANYTHING!…that’s what you people don’t understand, who are actually rooting for this type of behavior in society…this is why entertainment, including music, sucks now. The loyalty is few and far between. Gilbert has EVERY right to be frustrated and upset, wouldn’t you, we talkin’ billions of dollars in revenue here (I mean dollars 99.9999% of people here on RR will ever get a chance to touch) that this guy invested into creating a dynamic team. 1. Shaq – for all the dumb folks who must’ve forgot – was LeBron’s idea, 2. Cavs had the best record in the NBA last year, who choked the most when it came down to it all? (I didn’t see Tom Brady bounce on New England when they went through that undefeated year to lose in the end). His team tryed to play as good as they could without him in that Celtics match, but without any participation from Lebron, it didn’t look good at all. Then you have this decision, where he shitted on an entire team that embraced him even without that Ring (which by the way, he’d have been gone from another city in 7 yrs., lets be frank), and let everybody down without signaling ANYTHING!…No communication between him and Dan Gilbert since the last playoff game, i mean this guy (Lebron) had his ego working to not call, return calls or text his employer about what he’d be doing?? Like this shit was one big stupid spectacle to shit on a organization, clearly..its dirty shoddy tactics, but I actually kind of like it, even though I feel real bad for Dan and what he’s done thus far, hell Lebron helped make most of the front office decisions for those players yall calling bums.
Anywho, just look at it like this and this should put perspective on it all –
You work for company A, but company B shows signs of success for you, and you feel its a better choice. So be it, its your choice to go from comp. A to comp. B, but do you leave comp. A because of it not producing what you expected, in a unprofessional fashion, by just picking up your things and going to finalize your employment with comp. B without giving comp. A any notice what so ever?? Its unprofessionalism at its finest, and any who endorse that type of behavior, your employer should check this for your, cuz clearly, loyalty isnt in your character, you or LeBron James. Cheers to him continuing to make millions being paid more than our teachers and emergency servicemen/women….shits quite disturbing if you ask me
^ co fucking sign.
karmas a bitch and this will come back to lebron.
@ james bond……..lol that was a lot to read
Respect him for leaving the money and chasing titles. But the way he went about it was straight BS.
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I don’t like this in sports you need competition. I would rather see them compete against each other. MJ wouldn’t go to LA to play with Magic. He just killed his legacy as an all time great.
@James Bond I agree to an extent, but owners are never loyal to players they will trade you cut you whenever they want. As a player free agency is really the only time you can control your destiny, how often do you think teams call players and say yeah were gonna trade you?
He just proved that he is NOT in the same class as Kobe,and he def is not Jordan!!This cat proved he needs 3 star players to win and guess what????It does not guarantee shit!!!Thats Kobe!!!!Kobe=Best player in the League still!!Lebron=BITCH!!!
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MJ never switched teams, not even after Detroit kicked his ass 3 years str8 because MJ was that nigga. MJ didn’t go get Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller, or Ewing, he got at them niggas instead. Lebron is a bitch for this move I hope they burn his house down in Ohio this ole Bow Wow nigga went Hollywood. This reminds me of when Barkley went to the stacked Rockets and couldn’t win.
I hope ESPN paid that nigga good for all this drama, he could of announced that bullshit with everyoone else.
Fuck kobe and the lakers, bandwagon dickriders. Everyones an la fan when they win a championship.
Paul Silas
Jim Paxson
Damon Jones
Joe Smith
Žydrūnas Ilgauskas (traded and came back on his own)
Ben Wallace
Sasha Pavlovic
Mike Brown
most of the coaching staff
and whoever else i missed…..
…..dont wanna hear nothin about no “LOYALTY”. in fact, i’m sure they are thinking that lebron leaving is “karma”. whether it was the “business” of winning, or the “business” of making money, it has been proven that there in no loyalty with the cavs or anywhere else for that matter. so why expect something in return for something that you yourself do not give?!? and mike brown is the worst of the examples on NON-LOYALTY by the cavs. for 5 straight years, dude gave it his all and took the cavs further than they had been in recent years. and what did he get in return? the axe.
and just to be clear as mud, where does LOYALTY start and stop?:
to a state?
a city?
the team?
the team’s owner(s)?
the head coach?
the players?
gilbert ought to re-read what he said when he fired mike brown to see and understand what is happening now:
““After a long and deep analysis of all of the factors that led to the disappointing early ends to our playoff runs over the past two seasons, we concluded that it was time for the Cavaliers to move in a different direction,” Gilbert added. “The expectations of this organization are very high and, although change always carries an element of risk, there are times when that risk must be taken in an attempt to break through to new, higher levels of accomplishment. This is one of those times.”
replace “cavaliers” with “lebron” inthe above paragraph, and you have your “karma”.
“MJ never switched teams” etc….. etc…..
true, Im happy he’s in Miami. but this is STILL ……
WADE COUNTYYYYYYYYYYYY
the only ones who i felt deserved better were the DIE-HARD FANS!!! not the lebron fans, but the REAL FANS!!! the ones who repped clevland and the cavs, win, lose or draw. the ones who supported the team day and night, rain or shine. lebron really stuck it to them in theworst way……had them cats hangin on a string, loose ends (thanks drake), waiting for him to decide if he would ride or die withthem or flip and skip on the them. all the rest of those lebandwaggoners got exactly what was coming to them: NON-LOYALTY!!!
when mj lost to the pistons who did the pistons have isiah thomas joe dumars come on yall ignorant as fuck and magic had kareem abdul jabbar and the man with the most points ever and wilt chamberlain, even mj had pippen, larry bird had bill russell and bill walton and robert parrish come on u think any of these guys could have done it alone know ur facts im glad lebron is doin this his old owner dan giilbert is a piece of shit and he showed his CLASS when he said all that shit about someone who brought revenues he would have never seen period. and lebron dont have to say shit to the owner thats why its called unrestricted free agent he did his job with the contract he signed with cleveland now its time to move on… he told the ppl who matter the most to him his friends family and pat riley and dwade lmao cheaaaa!!!!
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the heat are going to give the lakers a serious run next year for most bandwagon fans
I feel sad for the Cleveland fans and city …because yall was dick riding dat nigga too hard ….now yall mad he left and jumpin on Kobe dick sayin he better …haha
@Drejayare,
how many games do you REALLY expect to come down to “the last shot” with BOSH,WADE, AND LEBRON F***G JAMES ON THE SAME TEAM??!?!?!? lmao. Imma keep it 100. This s**t will be fun to watch i guess, but this s**t just made the (already borderline) NBA organization into a fullblown joke! These niggaz need to play together all summer to make sure they have their chemistry down, so that they can go ahead and get that 81-0 season cuz i expect nothing less. This is really some bulls**t. Lebron is officially a joke to me too. Nigga had to SQUAD UP WITH ARGUEABLY THE 2ND BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE in order to ensure he got a ring?!?!?! lmao. wow. smmfh.
@PABLO ESCOBAR,
NO you are not the only one who feels like this at all!!! lmao. this is exactly what i was preaching yesterday. ANY AND ALL rings that Lebron wins with this team will/should have a BIG ASS asterisk next to it. Niggaz compared all of these other duos in the league and thats bullshit. You could argue at any point that either one of these niggaz (lebron wade) is the NUMBER ONE PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE, and now THEY ARE ON THE SAME TEAM WITH AN ALLSTAR CENTER IN BOSH?!?!?! lmao. This is BY FAR the MOST STACKED a team has ever been as long as you don’t count the Dream Team. lmao. This is truly some bullshit.
DJ Khalad needs to shut the fuck up. Sounds like he’s stuck on repeat from all “his” songs.
@CthaGod… That has to be the funniest Shyt I’ve heard all year!!! Straight up, Miami was a logical choice. Not an easy one, but in the interest of what’s right for him and his family, he did the right thing, PERIOD… DADE_COUNTY_OPA-LOCKA Representative!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a lesson to be learned from Cavs’ fans, the way they worshiped him when he was theirs’ and their reaction now that he’s gone…
NEVER kiss someone’s ass, because when they leave you for a different set of lips, you’re just left with hurt feelings, chapped lips, and a shitty taste in your mouth.
So to all you Cleveland fans and residents, here is a solution to help you get over your problems right now: Put some Carmex on your lips, swish some Listerine around your mouth, go hug a pillowand STFU.
I’m a Buffalo Bills fan…. I feel no pity for you.
Lebron will NEVER go down as one of the greats because of this move and this is coming from one of his long time supporters…Ugh what is he thinking?! He is no longer the King he is now a PRINCE! Even going to the Bull would’ve been a better look than this and he could’ve also given Cleveland fans a heartfelt apology, he just jumped ship like “See you niggas later I’m going to Miami! I’m ready to be number 2!”
I felt the same way as J.Cole did heartbroken! You just fucked up your legacy Bron Bron, the people around you aren’t doing their jobs!
Can someone teach Kanye the difference between a v-neck and a scoop neck? Thanks!
If you are a king i think you should lead by example.He knew where he was going since last week he was just waiting for them to get the numbers right for his salary.A king doesnt lie to the people and get all diva-ish and want to hold a press conference to tell you where he is going.If you loved the fans of Cleavland you should have told management you werent coming back so they could have prepared for the future.instead you dumped them on national t.v and left them in a hole.A king wouldnt say i want to win a ring so i am leaving to play with Wade and Bosh cuz they got the best shot.Only dudes about to retire do that. I believe he isnt a leader and he wants everything handed to him. He acts like he should win a ring the most easiest way possible.then got the nerve to tell players come play for the super 3 and win a ring -just take a pay cut. Come on Miami gotta sign everyone to the league minimum if they wanna play for them cuz the super 3 ate up the salary cap room.Those n#ggas made no sacrifice they all getting paid but want dudes to come over for $200,000 to play with em while they get 9mil a year. the King lowered himself to a queen to play besides king WADE.
What the hell is Ye doin’ hoverin’ around lookin’ like some kind of demon ???? LOL LOL Is he fulfilling some kind of bucket list before he offs himself or something? He’s awfully obsessed with death lately. (” This will be a beautiful death, jumping out the window”…”live fast die young” are examples) and he’s been EVERYWHERE. Who knows.
With them ultra tight pants Lebron had on Ye probably dressed him for this event.
You niggas kill me trying to give this dude a pass.
1) Was McHale or Parrish the face of their own franchise and THEN went to play for Larry Bird? No, them niggas became hall of famers BECAUSE they played with Larry Bird.
2) Did Kareem chase after Magic Johnson to win? No, that nigga won before he even changed his name to Kareem, and then Magic came in as a rookie and won when Kareem didn’t even play.
3) Scottie Pippen was drafted by the Bulls, and developed into a great player with MJ, Jordan ain’t go searching for Barkley or Dominique when the Pistons were smashing him every year.
4) Kobe was drafted by Jerry West, Shaq ain’t have nothing to do with it, and then Kobe ain’t even start the first 2 seasons. After he became that nigga, he fucking got away from Shaq to even further cement his legacy, because when you want to be great, that’s what great niggas do
D-Wade is the face of Miami, and won a ring by his damn self. Bosh was the face of the Raptors, and Lebron was the face of the Cavaliers and the whole damn NBA. Not only that, but a “wack” team don’t have the best record 2 years in a row. Nah, them niggas lost because he ain’t step the fuck up when it counted. He a grown man, he can do what he want, but don’t ever compare this dude to Magic, Bird, Jordan or Kobe again. Ever.
LMAO at all you haters…..and it’s funny, cuz the only ones mad (besides Cleveland) are you bandwagon Laker fans. Why?? Ya’ll scared now? Your guys gettin too old to keep up with a younger team…..and for all you Kobe stans with the Jordan comparisons….STOP. You sound and look stupid. And no, Kobe didnt win with the team he came in with……but I shouldn’t have to tell Laker stans….remember dummies, Kobe was drafted by the Hornets……
And….on that same note….ya’ll mad cuz dude went to work somewhere else?? This is his JOB!! He got a chance to transfer to a better, more successful company…..what….would ya’ll wanna be stuck at a dead end job?? Ask the big YN himself, Elliot Wilson….he left XXL, and now doin bigger better things. It’s called growin up, makin smart, man like moves…..ya’ll can keep baggin groceries for 7 yrs, and tell me you wouldn’t take a better job….smh.
SWAY-Z……..West did NOT draft Kobe…and Wade did NOT win it himself……he had the same dude Kobe needed to win….SHAQ
@hiphop81
Who drafted Kobe then? If Jerry West didn’t want him and believe in him, he wouldn’t have shipped Vlade Divac out of town for him. People make trades on draft day all the time, if Jerry wasn’t on board with Kobe, and that nigga decided to sit out, he would of played overseas and re-entered the next year, or whenever, so don’t act like Jerry West didn’t have nothing to do with it, he was and is his mentor to this day.
And what exactly did Shaq do in the ’06 Finals besides sit on the bench in foul trouble? Wade recognized that he would be given the benefit of the doubt by the referees if he continued to attack the Mavericks, so that’s what he did, and shot a record number of free throws which is how they won those games. Shaq was irrelevant, if anything, James Posey had more of an impact
serious yanks, basketball!!!???? no one cares but u yankes, u lot need to get into football(soccer) i.e the most watched, played, sponsored game on earth! serious, us sports wtf! one dat u’ll wake up and see how fuckin retarded ur sports are.
@CARRISI Fuck you bitch Soccer is the lamest game its Sooo boring to watch takes way to long to score and its a bunch of pussies playing it
Anyone remember Kobe’s free agency drama? He was in a much worse spot than Lebron is now and he came back and everyone is on his dick.
You all will love Lebron again as soon as he is scoring 50 points a game again and winning championships, or at the very least when he shows up in a jay-z or kanye video.
Let The Rumors START im light the first flame and see howmany people believe the shit im shoveling
LeBron Is Illuminati Thats Why He Chose The Number 6 and sold his soul
And Pat Riley Is The Devil
Heat= Hell
Watch This Take On A Life Of Its Own I Might Even Post This On YouTube!
Damn this post surely put your comments up, just like when Stephen Hill put Chris Brown on the BET Awards so that the “lil punk (could make) MJ’s moment, his moment”. I can understand what Lebron was saying that the owners could have gotten rid of him at any time because at the end of the day it is a job. Your boss will go of you at will and they trade players all the time but I think if he was going to leave Cleveland, he didn’t have to shit on them on national tv. Despite the money he raised for charity, he could’ve just given that out of his pocket. Now he has people truly hating him for the way he went about it moreso than the decision. I was never a fan of the Cavs but a fan of LeBron but I lost a little respect for him with this decision. Reminds me of when Shaquille O’Neal left my beloved Orlando Magic for the Lakers under the same circumstances. To this day he gets boo’ed by old school fans because we still remember the day he shredded our team and if its one thing I can’t stand its loyalty. F*ck what everybody else is doing, worry about your own character.
@Carisi,
Soccer is EXACTLY the same as watching a bunch of guys run suicide drills up and down a long ass field. This means that it isn’t a sport. Soccer is what guys do to practice and warm up before actually playing a sport. lmao.
And by the way, the U.S. is STILL and HAS ALWAYS BEEN the greatest country on Earth. That fact alone, is reason enough to dismiss the fact that the rest of the world is in love with arguably the most retarded sport ever. A bunch of fags run up and down a big ass field for HOURS kicking at a ball until FINAAAAAAAAAAAALLY someone MIGHT score ONE point HOURS later?!?! lmao. It’s so f****g boring in fact, that when someone FINALLY scores that ONE goal, the damn announcers have to stretch out that GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL s**t just to make the moment seem like something epic instead of the momentary break in the bulls**t monotony that it really is. Soccer f****g sucks. It’s stupid. Period point blank. So go spread your bs at a soccer post, not one about basketball.
^ to take the “suicide drill” comparison a step further….SOCCER is what coaches use to PUNISH guys for messing up during their practice of real sports. lol. f**k soccer.
Wade’s number 3.
Lebron’s NEW number is 6.
Three sixes!! 666!!! muhahahahahahahahaahahahhaha. lmao.
WTF!!!!!!!! what is the point of beef, hip-hop needs to grow up and learn from the past. J.Cole and Drake are different, there shouldnt be a whose better than who. Drake is cool and J.Cole is cool. They are a breath of fresh air to the game and needs not to be hated on when there are artists like OJ the Jewman, Gucci, Wack Flocka, Soulja Boy, Lil B, fuckin up the game. i would rather see a collabo than a diss. And even if they had beef im pretty sure Jay-Z will jump in and handle shit, since Cole is his protege and Drake is his buddy. Oh Yeah the only reason people hate on Drake is cause he got fame, watch when Cole gets bigger people are gonna start shoveling shit on him, be happy that dudes got popular, especially if they are talented and have love for the game
This nigga rich & he wearing the same clothes he wore on Larry King last month lmao im just saying
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