The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It has now been 50 years since a new genre of music was birthed out of the Bronx: Hip Hop. And over the last half century, it has grown and spread across the globe to become one of America’s greatest exports. And throughout its life, the genre has developed this symbiotic-like relationship with sports. They became two pillars of Black culture… empowering a community to be heard and celebrated against the backdrop of cultural oppression and political persecution. So today, ahead of the premiere of E:60’s “The Crossover”, our good friend, Justin Tinsley, joins the show to explain how hip hop, and sports, became the dominant voices of a generation. You can check out the latest E60 special, "The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports" narrated by Busta Rhymes, tonight at 7:30 Eastern on ESPN or afterwards on ESPN plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Justin Tinsley, when was the first time you remember seeing hip-hop manifest itself in sports?
0:13.5	That's a really, really good question, and I struggle to think about the first time,
0:22.4	but I have memories from when I was a kid.
0:27.6	My older cousins, they were the ones that really put me on the hip-hop, and they were big
0:30.8	fans of Fab5, they were big fans of, you know, D.I.M. and he was with their Atlanta
0:35.9	Falcons when he was just starting off, so I definitely remember their influence.
0:40.8	But I think like the first big memory that I have, it would probably be above the room.
0:46.2	The 1994 film that features Dewey Martin, Leon, and of course the late great Tupac Shakur
0:52.8	who had the starring role in that movie.
0:56.7	For me, I think it's got to be Shaq Diesel.
0:58.7	Oh, yeah.
0:59.7	Oh, yeah.
1:00.7	Right?
1:01.7	Mm-hmm.
1:05.5	You were part of the latest E60, the crossover, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of
1:11.4	hip-hop and really explores that genre's relationship with sports.
1:17.2	Why do you think those two hip-hop and sports are so closely intertwined?
1:23.1	I think they're so closely intertwined because the soul of each kind of resonate from the
1:28.8	same place.
1:33.7	Obviously, you know, hip-hop, if you go off the accepted date is August 11, 1973, it was
1:40.2	created in New York City, the Bronx, and what was also going on in those neighborhoods
1:46.3	at parts.
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