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It’s safe to say the majority of Britain’s know nothing about basketball. We’re a football (soccer) nation and that’s that. We leave basketball to our friendly neighbours across the pond. However, when Three-1-Zero shot me his “99 Lakers” LP and I read up on it’s concept, I was definitely intrigued!

Three-1-Zero says:

…Well I feel like right now my career is like the 1999 Los Angeles Lakers. That season for the Lakers was insane. First of all the season was cut in half due to the NBA strike so the support of basketball was at an all time low. (Kind of how the music industry is now). We had two different coaches that didn’t know what the fuck they were doing. We had crazy ass Denis Rodmanand this was also the year that Kobe and Shaq first started to “feud”. Most importantly it was their last season @ The Forum in Inglewood, California (my home town). 

…‘99 Lakers LP is a big ass metaphor that compares hip hop to basketball. Each song’s titled after a Lakers player from that year as well as other Lakers related things. Each song represents that player’s personality but at the same time has a reference to hip hop for example “Dennis Rodman” is a track with me spitting rebellious flows over a crazy ass rock and roll electric guitar and just crazy chaos on a track

…Trust me you’ve never heard an unsigned artists go this hard on the creativity for a project like this. Just take time to listen and I GUARANTEE that you will have one of thee dopest listening experiences ever!

Convinced yet? That’s a pretty ill concept, right? And let me just say, I may know nothing (nothing!) about basketball, but Hip Hop – Hip Hop I know and this dude can spit like craaaaaazy! Trust me! So, we got a cool concept and a serious MC? What more can you want?  Just download the LP!

Three-1-Zero – “99 Lakers”

Three-1-Zero is not to be slept on. Fact.

Peace, Love & Three-1-Zero

Much love to Three-1-Zero for sending this over!

Find the track list/album art after the jump!