Basketball fans best know Chris Webber as a 5x All-Star, the 1994 Rookie of the Year, and a legend for the Sacramento Kings. However, only a few might know how the Kings legend also has his foothold in the music and hip-hop industry. Shaquille O’Neal is one of them as recently, he shared the story of how CB got to work with the rapping legend Nas.
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Webber is a music producer and has produced two songs for the rapper Nas, “Blunt Ashes” from the album Hip Hop Is Dead and “Surviving The Times” from Nas’ Greatest Hits album. In an appearance on the All The Smoke podcast, Webber revealed that his spark for producing music was ignited by one of his friends from college, KG.
While studying at the University of Michigan, Webber hung around at KG’s house, which used to have a full production set in his room. While fiddling around with the production equipment, Webber started making amazing beats, which later earned the recognition of the popular rapper Nas. Growing up in Detroit, music was a large part of Webber’s life, which inspired him to make beats alongside his main hustle for getting to the NBA.
Shaquille O’Neal, who also had his fair share of trysts with the music industry, knew and understood Webber’s potential as a music producer. Affirming the former NBA player’s talent for producing, Shaq posted a clip from Webber’s appearance on All The Smoke on his story, uploaded by Hip Hop Historian on Instagram.
Chris Webber also released his rap album, ‘2 Much Drama’ in 1999, under his nickname C.Webb. The album consisted of 21 tracks, of which the single ‘Gangsta Gangsta (How U Do It)’ peaked at number 10 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. The album also included guest features from Redman and Kurupt. Furthermore, Webber also appeared on a self-titled skit for Naughty by Nature’s Grammy-winning album, Poverty’s Paradise.
Shaquille O’Neal had unreleased songs with big names such as Jay-Z, Nas, and Biggie
Shaq also had his fair share of experience in the hip-hop industry. While he was producing bangers on the court, perhaps some of his tracks also had the potential to be industry hits. The Big Fella collaborated with New York’s three rap titans- Jay-Z, Nas, and Biggie, in one of his songs, ‘No Love Lost.’ The song also featured Lord Tariq as a guest artist. Unfortunately, to everyone’s surprise, the track never saw the light of the day.
Years later, Shaq revealed that the song was shelved due to clearance issues. The Diesel was more than happy to collaborate with the biggest names in hip-hop, such as Nas, Biggie, and Jay-Z. However, when he realized he wasn’t getting enough money to contribute to this song, O’Neal decided to back out.
As a platinum artist, Shaq expected respect and pay in accordance. As respected widely in the league, Shaq also demanded the same respect for his musical endeavors.
![Jason Williams and Chris Webber have always been known to indulge in strange antics with each other, which was raised by Comedian Andrew Schulz, on his show, Flagrant. Appearing on the show, Jason Williams was asked whether he was involved "in a drive-by paintball shooting of Chris Webber's house in Sacramento". The White Chocolate burst into laughter and "plead the fifth". Williams confessed that maybe "his house caught some bullets along the way". However, to everyone's surprise, he told the comedian that "he [Chris Webber] was probably with me in some them drivebys." Adding to this, Williams also shared a hilarious story of a similar driveby with Webber, where the latter's shoe fell off but he had to somehow get it back. "We were doing that one time..we couldn't get in the gate or something so we decided we're going to go down and do our thing at the security guard at night, right, so we got two little scooters we are riding on these scooters and we dropped them in the dark and we are walking through the woods and whatever, we go the paintballs, we got the rocks, boom boom and we take off and left the scooters. But C Web's shoe falls off. And we got back and I was like 'Bro, where is your shoe?'" The story left everyone in the panel in splits as Williams made the 2021 Hall of Fame Inductee go all the way back to fetch his shoe because living in an all-white community, Webber was probably the only one with that size of shoe. However, on a serious note, the 2006 NBA champion confessed that it was one of the most fun times he had with his former teammate. He added that "it was a blessing in disguise" because they had to play a lot of games in different locations. It is obviously heartwarming to see such a chemistry between the legendary duo of Sacramento Kings. Jason Williams once had to travel in the undercarriage of the team bus Rookie hazing has been a part of teams in the NBA, where the veterans on the team try to build chemistry with young players in their own ways like alotting chores. Chris Webber once narrated one such incident where the rookie Jason Williams hid in the undercarriage of the team bus to avoid it. Upon reaching the hotel, the team noticed that Williams was missing. After searching for some time, the team looked under the bus and there was the 1998 draftee. When Webber asked him the reason, White Chocolate responded, "I don't wanna ride with y'all bi*ches up here." Even though it is a fun tradition among teammates to get to know each other, it did take a toll on the one-time All-Star. However, it was not long after this, the two developed good team ability to make some amazing plays together.](https://cdn-wp.thesportsrush.com/2023/11/7f3ad985-nba-2023-11-08t231816.707.jpg?format=auto&w=384&q=75)
