Alright, gentlemen.
Today is the first day of basketball.
All 27 or 28 guys for 12 positions.
I assume you think you can play basketball.
A coach can put you on a team.
Your teammates can make you hustle.
A scout can get you a scholarship.
And the right school can get you on too.
Williams.
But only the love can make you a player.
Marcus.
You got the love.
Coleman.
Pugh.
Thomas.
The second pick in the 1992 NBA draft goes to the Charlotte Horn.
Your land on magic selects Shaquille O'Neal.
I am a two-foot stick.
I was amazed at the talent that this young man has.
He is physically as skilled as anyone who's ever played the game.
Reminds me very much of Wilt Chamberlain.
Is it black?
Shaquille's name means little one.
His middle name is Roshan.
That means warrior.
When I was 17 and I heard a big name guy like Dick Vitale say he's going to be the first player pick if he decides to come out.
I really had to work on my game and I really wanted basketball to be what I wanted to do.
Well he's a very large person.
Both sides knew what we had to get done and the time frame that we were working under.
And we made it happen.
A brief thank you to the Magic Organization.
I think that what they've done here is in a sense shocked the world.
I'm going to play basketball, play basketball, basketball.
I expect him to do well.
He understands what it means to work hard.
Shaquille is going to be the model NBA player for the 90s.
And he's going to create such enthusiasm that will take it to a whole other level.
With all these legends out here, God, the cast of them, a lot of legends here, you know what I mean?
Guys, I played for I'm Ired, you know, and now to be standing in the same place with all of them together
and plus with John Wooden means a whole lot.
And my son is the centerpiece, the showpiece, the showcaser, the main person that's doing it for us really, really means a lot to me.
You got a good shot at being rookie of the year this year, man.
You got a very good shot.
I'm going to just go out and play my game.
If it happens, it happens.
It probably happens because you're all world, man.
You got skills.
Any pro worth his eye, teeth is going to be gunning for the shot, gunning for the shot, gunning for the shot.
When I go out, I have the attitude.
This is mine.
You can't stop me. I don't care who you are.
I don't care who you play for.
When I go out, I'm going to have a good game.
You're not going to stop me.
He has a chance if he works at the game and stays focused that he could eventually be talked about in the same vein as the work chain.
One of Walden or Karina, dude, Jabbar or Bill Russell.
Shaquille is a tremendous talent.
And I saw him play with other high school all Americans when he graduated from high school.
And he stood out tremendously then.
And it would be most surprising if he doesn't do extremely well, not just well, but extremely well.
I think he's going to be a superstar.
NBA is going to be a new game for me.
But once I get my feet wet, I'm going to be a hard guy to stop.
The first time I personally saw Shaquille was during a summer league game when he was playing AAU ball in San Antonio.
And he was just a big lumbering youngster, just full of life that just loved to run up and down the court and dunk the ball and very energetic and a big smile on his face.
And you could just see the tremendous talent that was oozing out of him and the future he potentially could have.
You know, we'd heard so much about the kid before he got here.
You knew that he'd won a state championship in Texas, and he's highly recruited.
We'd seen a film clip of him at least from a high school all-star game, and you knew he could do a lot of things.
At that point, though, you didn't know he was the second coming of the next guy who comes along every 20 years type player, which is what he is.
They just don't come along that often.
The last guy who could come along and command this kind of interest and professional potential, I think, was Kareem.
Well, his first year he was stifled because of a team that was not exactly a team.
It was crowded with individuals who didn't necessarily seem to like each other on the court, and that showed in their performance.
It was evident right away he was a strong defensive player, but he had a lot to learn.
As a freshman, he couldn't play defense without fouling, even though he was very intimidating.
Certainly by the end of his sophomore year, it was evident that he could play defense without fouling and intimidate.
And his offensive game had improved, not to the degree that it would improve by his junior year, certainly that it would improve years down the line.
By his junior year, the only thing that you could say about his offensive game still needing to work on was his range backing up away from the basket.
But as far as being in close, he was dominant.
And on defense, what he did the last three months of the last season for LSU was like nothing I'd ever seen before.
Really, really good players would drive the lane and have only him between the basket, look at him and say, no, this isn't such a good idea, and circle out.
And that's really intimidating.
He came in with ability and what a lot of people call potential to be a great player.
And I think he turned that and a lot of hard work into becoming a great player.
By the end of his junior year, there wasn't a whole lot of things he couldn't do.
He had developed his skills, ball handling and shooting wise, to be one of the better players to go into the NBA this year.
I think with Shaquille's ability and demeanor that people really took advantage of, we would have total defenses were geared towards stopping Shaquille.
I talked to a coach from Indiana yesterday and their whole basis was three and four people down on Shaquille and let the perimeter guys open and take the gamble.
And we had perimeter people that certain games came through, we had perimeter people that certain games didn't, so it was tough.
In his defense, he never was the one who said three and four guys were beating up on me and this isn't fair and I don't like the way the officials are calling me.
That came from other people. That came from other people close to him who I think put more of a burden on him by that.
He knew what was going on, but he knows also that it's not a game for children.
NBA, somebody jokes, is called No Babies Allowed.
The Vanderbilt game at Vanderbilt, 1990-91, Shaquille made a great defensive play at the end of the game.
The score was tied and one of the Vanderbilt players went up for a shot and Shaquille blocked it.
And he knew as well as anybody else that it was a clean block. He felt like a foul shouldn't have been called.
But the ref, Cooler Wilson, then called him for a foul. He knew he hadn't fouled the guy, so he got real upset.
And he did some things that caused him to get a technical as well.
So they ended up getting four free throws and the ball back at the end of the game with no time on the clock.
And the guy missed the two free throws that were the two free throws awarded to him because of the foul.
And without the technical Shaquille got, he probably could have went into an overtime with Vanderbilt if we hadn't have won it in regulation.
After the ball game, he looked back on it. He apologized to his teammates and his coaches for getting a tech because he felt like he had costed the ball game.
And he looked at it as something that he didn't want to do again.
He was going to try to control his temper and not get any more technicals that could probably cost his ball games later on in the season.
There's a lot of burden in being that good athletically in today's society, I think.
You have so many expectations of being seven foot tall. You run into the Ralph Sampson syndrome.
They expect you to win every game because of him. He understood that.
And people joke about, you know, he's a 20-year-old millionaire. But there's a burden that comes with all of that too.
I think he's the kind of person who can handle it well.
A lot of people forget he hasn't played basketball all that long. You know, we get back and talk about him.
Everybody goes, he's big and he is very mature. He's only 20 years old. A lot of people forget that. He's only 20.
In some ways he's a very, very mature 20. In other ways, a very young 20. He's a kid. A very rich kid, a very big kid.
Having time to relate back to Shaquille and think about Shaquille.
He sat with me at the Texas A&M game for a while when he came back a few weeks ago.
He's just a fun lover. When you think about what he meant, he just really enjoys life.
He's not all caught up on himself. He really realizes there's other people around him.
He's very giving and very loving and caring. He really cares a lot about people.
You really miss him when he's away because he really did at it.
He's a special athlete, but he's also a special person to be the athlete that he is.
And to be able to accomplish what he's done and still to keep a level of sense about himself.
Dixon and I, we would joke all the time. Every time he'd come in he'd look for a joke all the time.
We kids would joke with one another. He liked that. So he'd come in every time. He'd come in and say,
Can't you read it? I said, yeah, I'm ready.
Dixon would shoot some jive on me. I'd shoot from back on him. Shaquille would bust out and kick his heels up.
He was jolly all the time. We liked putting him to come in.
Every time he'd come in we had fun. But when he'd come in here and we'd lose him, we'd get on him though.
We'd shout him down about the ones he lost. He didn't lose them, but the team lost them.
I'm waiting to see him play against one of those players. Patrick Ewing, one of the good players.
I'm waiting to see him play against one of them. When he do, he's going to be the best thing out there.
I'll do him, I don't believe. I'll play him.
I'm Roy Marchand. I'm a third generation in this store that's been here since 1906.
We're about 20 miles away from the university and I've always watched LSU basketball.
Since Coach Dale Brown has been there, I've missed only one LSU home game.
I think that they will never forget Shaquille because we've had so many centers here through the years that I've watched.
And he was just unbelievable. He did things that when you see him do it one time,
well then next time might not be that exciting, but it's just unbelievable things.
I think that I've never had any person that was outside of my family, I have seven children,
that impressed me as an individual that what I would really want for a son.
And whenever he turned pro, I grabbed him and said,
look, I'm so happy for you and your family, but I'll miss you the rest of my life.
This is a Super Shaq Daddy special. It's a large muffalata bread with cheese, tartar sauce, a few shrimp.
One day Shaquille was over here and he says, let's fix something special. And I says, OK, what?
And we came up with this. Like I said, it has cheese, tartar sauce, shrimp, ketchup,
a little lettuce, tomatoes, salt, pepper.
And we have a Super Shaq. When he's not too hungry, he can eat just one.
But when he's starving, he'll eat one of these and another one.
Well, we were looking for names for my son and we were really undecided.
I always followed LSU basketball and I liked the name Shaquille O'Neal.
And I told my wife, I said, I like the name Shaquille O'Neal.
And she said, what about Shaquille O'Neal? I said, we could use O'Neal for the middle name.
So she said, yeah, let's go with Shaquille O'Neal because we didn't pick no other name.
That was it. Shaquille O'Neal was it. And we didn't know we were going to have a girl or not.
Now, what if it had been a girl?
If it had been a girl, we would have been in trouble.
He used to do one thing funny with me. I use a tape recorder when I interview him.
I use a tape recorder when I interview him. I use a tape recorder when I interview him.
I like to look at people when I interview them.
A lot of guys don't use a tape recorder, so they'll be there furiously scribbling his notes.
And a guy would ask him some kind of question that he thought was dumb.
And then he'd give the answer.
And while the person who asked the question would be down there scribbling away,
he would look down at me and just shake his head, sort of mocking him in a way that he would not offend the guy but to let me know.
That's a really dumb question. But he would answer it anyway, which is a nice credit to him.
I think that athletes today, particularly visible high-profile athletes on the major college rank
and particularly in the professional ranks as they're being paid, they're entertainers.
Coaches are entertainers. Coaches don't stay in the professions for long times because people get tired of the entertainer.
Athletes don't stay for a long time because they get tired of the entertainer.
Larry Bird's time to go. He can't entertain anymore. Michael Jordan's an entertainer.
Shaquille O'Neal is the new entertainer. People want to see that new guy take the spotlight and entertain.
There are two plays. One was his sophomore year. He was playing Nicholls State.
And a kid set up on the left wing to shoot a three-pointer. And it was from pretty far out beyond the three-point range.
All of a sudden the ball left this kid's hand and Shaquille came flying out of the lane and blocked the shot.
Now just to block a three-pointer alone is pretty astounding.
The ball was headed out of bounds near the LSU bench.
He chased down the rebound, reached out with his hand as he tiptoed the line, seemingly knowing exactly where he was the whole time.
Grabbed the ball with his hand, swung it behind his back and hit Mike Hanson, his teammate, on a perfect bounce pass open in the front court for an easy basket.
And I remember just saying to myself, I've never seen anything like that before.
The other play was this year against McNeese State.
He was at about the 10-foot mark straight out from the basket.
The teammate was on the right baseline and took a jumper.
At the time the guy shot the ball, Shaquille I think thought that he was going to get an alley-oop pass.
He was breaking in full speed and jumping as the ball was leaving the guy's hand.
The ball hit the back of the rim, came straight up the lane, and it was high.
Shaquille was then maybe six, seven feet away from the basket, reached up and caught the ball in one motion with his hands.
I mean, just so far over his head you couldn't believe he got the ball.
And simultaneously came through, dunked the ball as powerful as I've ever seen, and leapfrogged over a 6'5 player on the other team.
That's the greatest play I've ever seen in person.
I've never seen, I mean, I've seen every basketball player in the last 10 years, at least in person at some point, it's the greatest play I've ever seen.
I'm really going to miss him.
I'd like to thank him for the memories he gave me and all the things he's done for me standing by me.
Basketball is, it would be different playing without him if I continued to play.
I think that the aspect that we'll miss the most at this university and in the athletic department, and particularly in the basketball program, is just having Shaquille around.
He was a spirit. He brought a tremendous array of confidence and spirit.
He was not afraid of anyone. He would take on anyone.
He was an entertainer for this university. He was a spokesman.
You were confident when you were around him, and we will miss him as a person.
Recently I went to Los Angeles to make my first commercial.
I'd grown up watching athletes on television doing commercials, and always dreamed of doing something special for mine.
As it turned out, my dreams more than came true. I met four of the best people all in one day.
The big idea here was really what if we invited the legends, the true legends of the game, in a kind of what I'll call a rites of passage idea.
And that is what if they were assembled for the first time ever and then gave Shaquille some advice about what he needed to do in entering the league,
and what he needed to do about his game, the way he conducted himself, and what would happen if we pulled these guys together.
They just want me to explain what's going on today. This is basically where the elders live, the legends of the game.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Will Chamberlain, Bill Walton, and Bill Russell.
And this is where they live. This is also like centers of the universe.
And basically you've been called here today for your rites of passage to get their blessings.
So this is like the ultimate basketball court.
It feels kind of great, four legends here, Bill Walton, Will Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Kareem.
It feels kind of good. I mean most kids don't get to meet any of those guys. I'm meeting all four of them in one day.
I'm not four birds out with one stone. I'm meeting them all.
Hi, Coach. How are you today?
Coach, how you doing, Coach?
How you doing, Coach? You got a lander for me?
You should have heard what Bill Russell said about the time UCLA beat USF yesterday in the 55.
You should have moved it sideways for me. There we go.
He's been complaining. They knocked us off the lane.
I didn't complain.
All right, looking good.
Thought about it.
Coach.
Of course you know Kansas has never ever beaten UCLA in basketball.
Never?
But those guys were really, really, when I came to school they were really kind of strange.
See, we had our first game every year was against Louisville.
Kentucky?
Kentucky.
These guys what you doing there?
And they dropped us all.
Is that a rubber ball?
It is.
They took a drop right off the sketch.
We always start with Chico State.
We started with the Citadel.
Oh, is that it?
Greg Lee after the game was interviewed and he said, you know, they're kind of like a good junior college team.
And he got filled up.
Coach had to give us a lecture about how to deal with the press.
We pick it up right there.
Certainly one version of it is a much tighter one.
You want to wind up with a...
My rookie year was 1974.
They were all gunning for me.
At that time I had signed the largest contract in the history of team sports.
That's now what guys make in about one quarter of action in the NBA.
But Shaq, when he steps out on that floor, he's going to be a marked man each and every time.
He's going to have to come ready to play.
But I believe he's got the makings of a champion.
I think he can handle it.
Well, he got that zone defense in his favor, though, right?
They ain't going to be able to drop three or four or five guys on him.
Like you m******.
Hey, man, I see that.
I tell my teammates, I say, hit him.
I'm going to kick your a**.
I'm going to hit him.
Unless you mean it.
I come.
They didn't call me on the defense back when I was playing.
I'm going to have five guys around me, plus the two referees, punching me hard at the same time.
I was bad.
They ain't going to be able to do that s*** with you.
What year did they put the no-zone defense?
The zone was always in there.
They just weren't calling it.
It was always in there.
I always tell my guys, leave him.
All you do is piss him off.
I think that the parallels between Shaquille and myself are probably a little closer than they are with some of the other centers because of his certain attributes and his type of play.
But I think in order for him to be the true value, once again, to his team, he has to remain in little foul trouble as possible.
That doesn't mean he's not aggressive, but he has to be very, very smart.
He has to play smart like a Bill Russell and keep himself ready to be called upon when needed.
Will, do you have one or two books out?
Two.
I think I have three.
You got one about those 20,000 women?
Yeah, that one.
Hey, man.
That in itself is a unique experience.
You understand how the centers are every day.
They write books. They don't just read.
I just tell them, hey, work hard and don't let the flack get you down because you're going to get flack for any number.
People aren't going to like him because of his salary.
People aren't going to like him because he didn't finish four years of college.
People aren't going to like him because he's playing in Orlando and not playing in...
There's all kinds of reasons that people aren't going to like him.
And you can't try to please everyone.
Just know that you're working hard and trying to do the best you can for the people that are paying your salary.
Everything else falls in place after that.
It's been interesting.
I think Shaq has really surprised everyone with not only...
You sort of think of him as this great big hulking ball player, but he turned out to be quite an actor.
And I think it's the fun of it. I think he's discovering that side of him.
He did extremely well.
He was the key to getting me and the show moving as quickly as it did yesterday.
We had a lot of set-ups and it depended on his readings, his ability to kind of portray himself,
but in these different states of mind, picked it up real fast, figured it out, got the right sort of thing.
We dialed it in. He takes subtle direction well.
If basketball fails, he's got a career as an actor.
I'm coming out with my first movie.
I don't know.
Oh, it's hype. I rap. I rap. It's hype.
Me and my man just wrote a rap.
Oh yeah.
Nah, can't do it now.
Top secret, bro.
Tom Sturgis, please. Leonard Armada.
Hey, Tom. How are you?
Listen, I'm down at the Reebok commercial shoot for Shaquille.
And you know, there's a lot of downtime here,
and he and his buddy Uzi have been working on this rap all day long.
And they've been building it up and building it up,
and now they want to go into the studio and record something,
and you know we've got one more night here in Los Angeles.
Is there any way that you could pull off a miracle,
get him into the studio so he can make a record tonight?
Really? You can pull it together?
Okay, look, I will call you back in 30 minutes,
and hopefully you'll have all the details.
I'll tell Shaquille you're working on it.
All right? Tom, thank you so much. All right? Take care. Bye.
See you on day.
See you on scene.
I think you're right on the money there.
Bam, that shattered perfect.
It's trying to get the tumble out and the shatter happening at the same time.
You hit the button exactly right.
Rolling.
Yes.
And, action.
I'm with Uzi Solomon, he's one of my best friends in San Antonio.
We kind of grew up together, and whenever we're together,
it makes me feel pretty good.
We love to hang together, to rap together,
and I just wish everyone had a little brother like Uzi.
Hey, bro, watch out, brother.
I'm making a mix without the engine minor.
If I play tennis, I'll be John Simpson, though.
When I'm up there, you better act like you know.
If I was Italian, I'd be Shaq Pauling on me.
I like that it's me and I'm showing the right of you.
I know what you're driving.
Ready yet?
Sometimes I'm here.
That's how I dream I always used to be.
I feel I am.
I feel I move.
If I could be like Shaq, Shaq, Shaq.
What time is it, bro?
2.30 in the morning?
2.30.
I said we could do this with the quickness, bro.
Let's go.
2.30 in the morning.
All right, here we go.
Let's go.
What's your record?
I think down the hall.
This one?
Down the hall?
Down the hall.
OK.
We don't got much time now.
We got to go.
It's 6.30.
6.30 minus 2.30 is four hours of sleep.
You got my name saved?
One, two, three, four.
You got me.
When I was driving, I always heard about Richie C.
When I remember, I do a lot of damn HAs.
You can see I need to leave a lot of room, G.
So I have to boom check, boom check.
Boom, G.
You ever heard that one?
You ever heard that one Chris Kross song?
Which one?
The one that was Suggma?
No.
The one when he was rapping and then he just stopped and said, no, no, no.
Give me an old school beat, man.
Oh, yeah, no.
Tom told me that.
Yeah, Tom told me about that.
Can you do something like that?
About with the bass line?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm going to try.
I got something worked out.
I'm not even to the bass line.
I'm like going home.
I'm just working on the beat right now.
I'm actually trying to have a different bass line.
It's a variation.
It's kind of that same flow.
Hey, can we stick these guys in the control room and let them get started so they're playing with us?
Can we do that?
Because they've got to still sync up there.
They've got to get their part right too.
Oh, can they?
Then I can hear it better than this.
Okay.
That's great, man.
That's great.
That's fantastic.
Let's get it all together.
That's cool, man.
You've got to get those.
You've got to be right on so when you're da, da, da, da.
You jamming?
That was my place there, man.
I started to memorize it.
You've got it written out perfectly clearly?
No.
Because when you're in there, you don't want to be going...
Yeah.
You're jamming.
I'm jamming.
When you're in there, you don't want to be going...
Yeah.
You want to be concentrating on...
I got something to memorize and something I'll read, so the part I memorize, I don't look
at the paper.
You know what?
It's worth taking the 10 minutes to put it all right so that when we're in there and we
got it everything perfect, it's we're not blowing it because you forgot to look at the wrong
part of the page.
Okay.
You guys ready?
No.
Not ready.
Okay.
I'm okay.
Well, we're all set in there, so we got the bass going and we got the second mic set up
because you're going to be doing this, right?
What?
You guys don't mind if I join in, do you?
I can't mess it up.
Don't make the funk.
On what?
A nasty, nasty dunk.
Because if you do, you'll get hurt, punk.
And if you get in the way, especially while I'm jamming, you'll get kicked like a claw
upon dammit.
Oh, man.
When I dunk, I always have a literacy.
On the rim, I do a lot of damage.
When I play, yo, I need a lot of room.
So I can boom, check a boom, check a boom.
These speeders, check a tack, I just want to wear them on my feet.
Ever get in this and I never eat the weed.
I eat my fruit loose, catch the olive juice.
Yo, then I'm chilling with my troops.
Speaking of the troops, your mom and I meet people.
When I'm on the court, you'll never see no people.
Because I'm cool and hard with a handle.
I'm a man of my word, I'm a man of my word.
So I drive and I act like a super.
Cars, I'm cool and hard with a handle.
I'm in the middle of a point golf handle.
Coming down the court, doing lot of tricks, making it 14.5.
Magic, making it 14.6.
What kind of stuff is that?
正義記念,正義記念.
Damn, I thought I was the man, sht.
Don't worry, huh, cause you know you are.
So now.
I go back to what I was doing.
Call me black coffee, cause homeboy, I'm brewing.
In a pot, I'll tell you what I got.
When it comes to moves, homeboy, I got a lot.
Like Akeem, I like Je neighond.
I thought I dunked on boy I'm gone
Down to the other end
I know for a fact that the god damn rim is bent
Next time I'll make sure it's broke
You know why? I ain't no joke
If I could bake a cake I'd beat Ben and Crocker
I'm nice kid but shack is much darker
Like who do brownie? Bubble the cloudy
If I was a junior I'd be Carl Morton Downey
Speaking of Downey I'm a quicker picker
Why wear Jordan when I got Reebok Pompas?
Yes, I'm small but I jump with authority
Dunking on 1, 2, 3 of the majority
Of your team, I'm what does that mean?
Just like a cat I'm quick and very keen
Now you see what game is all about
Let me pump up the Reeboks then I'm out
I love rap and I heard that Foushnikens was coming to Orlando
I called him up and asked him if we could hang out
He came to a game and we had so much fun
We decided to work on a rap together
I think it turned out great
I think if I wasn't a hooper I'd be a rapper
I'm a true what? I am a true Foushnikens
Watch out for the cop
What up man?
How you doing?
Y'all hanging with me tonight?
Yeah, yeah
Ok, cool
What up man?
Got the middle one shut up
Thanks for coming bro
What's up man?
What up man?
Yeah, I got one in
I got one in too
Chillin man
Be tight
Thanks for coming man
Don't ask me
Y'all hanging with me tonight?
I hear what you just said
Y'all hanging with me tonight?
Yeah
Yeah, we with you now
I take us around man
You got your own car or what?
Nah, we got our own van right here
Ok
We sleep in the car
Some of y'all can ride with me
You all ready?
Yeah, let's go get it
Ok
You ready to skip?
Yeah
Music
Gotta go, I ain't no joke
I ain't no joke
I have to say I ain't no joke right?
Patting it off like I ain't no joke
I ain't no joke
I ain't no joke cause I slam it, jam it
Make sure it's broke
Instead of slamming and I slam it
Cause we gonna do some overdubs
Like slam it, slam it, jam it
Make sure it's broke
Alright, cool
Two four califragilistas, shackas, alidotians
Peace, I gotta go
I ain't no joke
Now I slam it, jam it
And make sure it's broke
He wanna say broke
It's like it's too much trying to fit in there
That's what it is
And make sure
But he, no he is not the, he's not
He's not going on that down beat
He's riding something else
Make sure it's broke
He riding something else at the end
It's off though
Like slam it, jam it, make sure it's broke
And make sure it's broke
You know what I'm saying?
He gotta sure, you know
He stress it, he gotta stress that ending
And make sure it's broke
I'm the Hooper
Hooper, Hyper
Protect the Bob Biper
When I'm out the Hooper
You know you're better at the cipher
In other words, you better make a fucking decision
Cause I'ma be a shack knife and cut you with precision
Forget Tony Danza, I'm the boss
When it comes to money, I'm like Dick DeFarce
Now who's the first pick?
Me, well this morning
Not a Christian, late enough
Not Alonzo, morning
That's okay, not being braggatocious
Two four califragilistas, shackas, alidotians
Peace, I gotta go
I ain't no joke
Now I slam it, jam it
And make sure it's broke
Can we rock?
What's up, Doc?
Can we rock?
What's up, Doc?
Can we rock?
What's up, Doc?
Can we rock?
What's up, Doc?
What's up, Ha?
Ya hoop, hoops
Ya ma duks, ya paduk
They're two scoops
They're raisin' in the sun
Brother try to rally up
Then daily galley for some room
Bird peckin', double deckin', rubber neckin' in my tunes
Check it out, yo
I smile like Groucho
Marks, I make a joke
Boogie, focus
Laugh like Egg Yo
Play me like a punk
Like the penguin in the Joker
Snoopin' in my biz
Like Tom and Roxy Roker
And bust a freaky freaky freaky way
The brothers with the Asian keys
Makin' G
What?
And now we sellin' records overseas
Holy smoke, oops
Ya whole plan goofed up
Now ya get kicks, nuff licks
Plus, goofed up
As you can catch a quick job
We're tryin' to take the schnick's
Pops a tick tock
Around the clock
A shock while we lick shots
For goodness sakes
Hi, I'm out, you out
ABC ya, bye
Carry Rock
What's up, Doc?
Carry Rock
What's up, Doc?
Carry Rock
What's up, Doc?
Carry Rock
What's up, Doc?
I thought I saw a booty jack
What?
I did
I did the Humpty Dumpty
Bash for grumpy
Cracking the Biscoe Disco beat
Come on, stop, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
Pick it up like Pinocchio
Little underdog underdog Humpty Dumpty
Count my hump nose
So play those citos
Suffer suck attach
My missus told Dunge
The writers after me
Seven dwarfs with stars
And after me, don't keep chomping
So leaping leprechauns
De-gannum
I'm a booty pebble
So howdy, my partner
I star-struck, give me nuh
So axe bop, bop, I'm in stock
Drop, dot, bop, nuh
Oh, where is my mic, one?
Tell me, have you seen her?
I stretch like a condom
It's not like a wiener
A sausage, of course, this
I've got chip to wreck it
But before my ink draws
A little bit of dust on my jacket
So who is the nicest in your neighborhood?
The rakes are Medi-Bidi-Meri
Crack, I'm shimmying
Captain Crunch, very good
So rah, rah, rah
This boom-bah chip
Fool was coming again
Gift tanks and praise
Yes, the John Ma
Lyrics are smooth
Like the head, yes, so steady
My tongue starts to kickin' like Speedy
Think I'm dipping your bag
In a recent bag and rung a hola
Fresh
So shame, pussycat
Well, don't mind
Cause you can rap
Cause I'm dip-dip-diving
So socializing
Clean out your ears
Yes, and open up your eyes
And I kick like Bruce Lee
And I'm Jean-Claude Van Damme
Don't stop, stop, I'm hotter than the face
Don't come in a bigger than the chub rock
A big
I'm the hoop up, Iper, protective eye viper When I'm out the hoop and you're better,
decipher In other words you better make a funky decision
Cause I'ma be a shack knife and cut you with precision
Forget Tony Danza, I'm the boss When it comes to money, I'm like Dick the Boss
Now who's the first pick, me bro this morning?
Not a Christian Leightner, not Alonzo Mourning That's okay, not B.E. and Braggatotian
Too far, califragilist, the shack is all adotious Please I gotta go, I ain't no joke
Now I slam it, jam it, and make sure it's broke
Yo we like to give shoutouts to main sauce and the producer of this here truth
We got shack fools in the house, shack fools in the house
So I'm a true fool schnick now?
I am a true what?
I am a true fool schnick I'm a true what?
I am a true fool schnick The thing that's gonna swing it
I'm the rowdy body, the black one I flex my dredge Sherlock Holmes
The dick of the rich and the big of the dredge, yo I don't need no homie co
What you need me to be my mama, good will be the goo, I'm up my toe
Sley and Mako chocolate chips above the flow No soup with that car and that president
Baby I eat him all day anyway, cause good prebang order live in the pit pit pit pit
Puh Boc demi bico de Simba Company and while he you ain'tAs idiots, that's that all
Ivanka's good for a chip, you better believe it's worth it
Watch closely what I make withhumipure right on and on authorization
Stars are not the facts, I never sector ar friggin Iraq, I'm off to
Oh my hello hello
Going back to San Antonio for the last time before the season started was difficult for me
I wanted to wrap up that part of my life in one great weekend
I have the memories to take with me so I spent every hour doing something
I went to my little brother Jamal football game
I stopped at the base picnic and I got my uncle wet a few times
Took a last visit to my high school and to top it off I had a great barbecue at mom and dad's house
And they planned a going away party for me and it was great. I had fun.
I think the real hero in my life is my dad
He really told me a lot about basketball
But he taught me a lot more about life when I see the look of pride in his eyes for all of us kids
It makes me feel better than winning any game could.
We want him to be a all-around person, all-around good person
Don't be a follower, be a leader
Hard to be a leader in this society these days
You know all the situations we're involved with
We were in Jersey City and Newark and you know we were really really hard
But the main thing was to get secure to listen, to be a leader not a follower
And everybody follow behind and lead by your example
And it took some time but it worked out pretty well
When I was young I really didn't know what I wanted to do
But my father and my mother always told me follow your dreams
And believe it or not I wanted to be a famed dancer
I wanted to go to dance school and be a break dancer
And then if that didn't work I was going to be a rapper
If that didn't work then I was going to try basketball
But at age 15 we moved from Germany, moved here to San Antonio
I had started playing and I was getting a lot of press
And you know I was doing good in school and people was liking me
And you know they were saying you're going to be the best
You're going to be this and you're going to be that
And at that time I started developing a little bit of confidence in myself
And I just started practicing every day
Look where I'm at now, in the league
In our household we have what we call a unit
We call ourselves a unit and we look to each other for strength and guidance
I don't think that I did anything different that any other parent wouldn't have done
I always tell Shaquille that he can come and talk to me
I like to be his friend besides his mother
And I think communication is very important
My mom is beautiful and she's solid as a rock
I know there's nothing I can't talk to her about
And she's always been there for me
When I hear about the problems some of my friends have had with their parents
I just think about how lucky I've been to have two of the best
When Shaquille left to go to college we let him make his own decision
He talked to us about it and we discussed it among ourselves
But we let him know that decision was up to him
And we told him that whenever he decided he wanted to leave we would support him 100%
He knows what he wants to do
I remember when I first arrived in San Antonio and they found out that I was going to go to Cole High School
They told me don't come to Cole High School because it's small and you won't get the media attention
But my dad told me if you're good they're going to find you
So I came here and I played and I enjoyed it
We have a real small gym but it was real loud
Real, real loud and I had fun
And if I had it all over to do again I would love to come back here and play
When I come in here I get flashbacks of the gym used to be packed
And the news cameras used to be everywhere
Everybody around the state they want to come see us play
Because I think we were the only team in the state that was undefeated
And they all wanted to see us play
They all wanted to know about this 16 year old 6'11 kid named Shaquille O'Neal
And every time we played here I gave him a pretty good show
One day I came out here and I told him if he didn't get up and do what I told him to do
I was going to have to take him down on the floor
So I went to do that and he picked me up over his head and just helped me up there
And I just kind of laid up in the air
And that was the end of that, I never did tell him anything like that again
Because he was talking noise to him and said come up
This is my main man Coach Smith and my other main man Coach Comeau
Yeah we the main men alright
72-1 Teller, talking about the high school days bro
It was good times, back in the good old days bro
We was above the rim wasn't we? We was above the rim all the time
We tore a lot of rims down, we had to stop a lot of games
I couldn't stop us but
I tried to get Shaq to play quarterback for me but he couldn't god dang throw an outblown ball
Had to be round, but he was the best football manager we had
He was the best statistician I've ever had
I knew he was going to be awesome when he took our 300 pounds 6'8 defensive tackle
And turned him upside down and held him by his ankles during off season
And we knew he was going to be somebody then
I remember the first day I came here
Coach Smith had asked me, son can you play ball?
I said yeah, I was all Europe so he just threw me a little uniform
And he said okay, all Europe this and I had to go outside
And I was doing football drills all day, I was rolling around in longs and this and that
And then the next year I started my basketball season and we had 35 and 1
We came short to win the state championship and then the next year 36 and up we won it all
That was his junior year, he took it real hard
He took it personally that we didn't win that last game
Because I missed the free throws, two seconds left down by one, I missed four free throws
I remember picking up in the locker room and going back in there and he was sitting in the corner crying
And I promised him, I said next year we going to win it, 36 and up
This is life science, can I go on with what I was going to explain to them?
Yes ma'am, I never took this class
Number 3 on page 55 says what level of organization is each of the following?
It gives you a tree, a heart, blood and skeleton, right?
I'm going to say take a human being, take a body
Right here you have a body, right?
I really had some good years here, I really did
This right here is Uncle Burke, in blood he's not an uncle but in life he's an uncle
He's done a lot for the family and he's a real good friend to the family
He treats me like all my uncles treat me so I call him Uncle Burke and his son and I are best friends
What's supposed to happen?
Oh, we're about to go to something called the Duncan Booth
Not the basketball Duncan Booth, but the booth, we throw the softball at the round thing
And the clown goes down and you know gets wet, we're about to get him wet
Okay this is a military tradition, it's called organization day
And this is where they take the day out to bring all the troops together
Everything is free, it's laid on for them, we give them food, games, drinks and everything
And we commemorate just one day of family unity
You can't hit that target
I wasn't ready, he got me real good because I was talking and all of a sudden I saw that ball coming and boom
So that was really unexpected but it was nice, I got things started so all in all it's a good day
Get rowdy, get tough, get rowdy, get tough, get rowdy, rowdy, get tough
Come on, get on him, get on him.
There you go.
Come on, let's go.
Sports, teaching discipline, team play, a whole family concept is team play.
Everybody working together, being together, doing things together.
Like a cycle, like a machine, a chain, a real old chain.
If one part of the chain is messed up, then the whole cycle
or the whole configuration is messed up.
So why we teach our kids sports and team plays and good sportsmanship.
When I was able to learn, I think I was age 9 to 10,
that's the same thing they're doing.
My first year I was 99, but I was a little bit meaner to these kids
because my father was a coach and I felt like I had to do it
because if I didn't he was going to be harder on me at practice
and harder on me when I got home.
So I used to like football, but at age 13 I just stopped playing
and I started really focusing on basketball.
We are proud of you, yes we are proud of you.
What was wrong today out there?
The first part, you kept getting confused.
You got to start using your hands to keep the guy off you.
When you're on defense and the guys come at you,
you got to use your hands to keep them off you.
How you feel about the game?
Good.
This is it man, this is it.
You know that's funny you're asking that question because
I think about the day, about two years ago, three years ago,
no four years ago, he let the old McDonald's play the McDonald's game,
McDonald's American game, and we had a big cookout out here,
had a big tent there, all grilled all around here and everything.
He first gave you a plate on television and he really did well.
This is it though, it's always been our dream to see him play in Ambay,
my dream, because I wanted to play it, I couldn't play in it.
Now my son is going to play in it, that makes me feel a whole lot better
knowing that my son was able to go farther than what I went.
That's what it's all about, you know what I mean,
you're choosing going farther than what you went and doing better
than what you're going to be doing.
This is one of Shaquille's first projects when he had industrial arts.
It says Lucille's Kitchen, so I hang it in the kitchen of every one
of our homes since we've moved.
Every time I look at this sign I think of him and the good things
that he likes to eat.
He loves macaroni and cheese and I try to cook that for him every time
he comes home and he loves fried chicken.
Today we're having barbecue chicken though and fajitas,
but every time I look at Lucille's Kitchen I think about Shaquille.
Today I feel like he's really going to work now.
Before when he left to go to college I felt that he was taking one step
further towards being a man, but now I really feel like he's going away
to work.
The MBA is not an easy job, I consider it a job,
and I know that he's going to work for the money that they're going to
pay him, so I just want to put myself behind him and just be his strength
while he's away from home.
I'm going to give him a good meal and let him get some rest and tell him
I love him and tell him to keep his head up as he goes on.
Why do you call Shaquille a test tube baby?
You remember the first time you met Shaquille?
Sure.
Why do I call him that?
Very simple.
Something that big had been made in a laboratory.
Simple as that.
People don't make babies like that.
They just don't make them that big.
The way Shaquille was brought up was pretty obvious,
that he was brought up in a good environment and that they took care
of Shaquille and the whole family is number one.
And that makes me feel good as being a black American here in the United
States more than anything is togetherness with family.
Whenever I come back home to San Antonio, me and the guys, we get together.
We love rap.
When we're not out, sitting around, we're making up raps,
listening to the music that we like and just talking about music.
Shaquille, this is it, bro.
Time to go to work, huh?
How will I do in the league?
I really don't know.
But I do know that I'm going to give it my best.
I'm going to come out smoking.
But I know that being the number one draft choice and the money,
there'll be guys out there waiting for me.
But I'll be waiting for them too.
And believe me, I'm going to give it everything I've got.
That's all I can do.
And when it's all said and done, I'm going to always keep smiling.
I'm going to keep smiling.
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