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I have a feeling most of you reading this aren't into it, but I'm pretty excited about today's World Cup game between the U.S. and the Czech Republic. While the U.S. was ranked 5th in the world FIFA rankings, an all-time high, they received a pretty rough draw for the opening round of the World Cup, ending up in the same group as the Czechs, Italy and Ghana. Odds are against the U.S. making it out of the first round, as all three oponents (yes, even Ghana!) are expected to give the Americans a significant challenge, but they exceeded expectations in 2002 so I still have my hopes up for this year.
As you'd expect, there aren't too many references in hip hop to the game of soccer. I could go on and on listing songs that drop references to basketball, football and even golf (Tiger Woods, y'all!), but not the original futbol. I did a little research, though, and came up with a few tenuous connections between hip hop and soccer:
(1) Last October, Jay-Z began negotiations to buy a part of the English football club Arsenal F.C. Forget the Nets and the NBA, apparently the English Premier League is where the real money is at. Jay-Z has even dropped a reference to English football legend David Beckham in this questionable line: Evisu Jeans cover my rectum / I kick game like David Beckham.
(2) Last week, Manchester United star Wayne Rooney paid ú150,000 pounds at a charity auction for the chance to party with Diddy in New York. Unfortunately, Rooney wasn't aware of the ridiculous drinking laws in this country, so the 20 year old will have to wait until his 21st birthday to party with the Puff.
(3) A rapper has even had beef with soccer, or more specifically, a Soccer Mom. Shila Mitra, a partner in BCD Music Group, released a diss track aimed at Houston Rapper Chamillionaire this past January. Chamillionaire was originally signed with BCD but he tried to get out of his contract with them and went to Universal. Details were sketchy on why he left. The only thing I could find on this was that he was apparently upset about the fact that the owners of BCD were Jewish (not sure how credible that account is, as I would have thought his Christian and Muslim upbringing would have left Cham with some religious tolerance). Mitrah then lashed out at Cham with a track entitled Jamrags, Jamaican slang for used tampons, rapping under the moniker Soccer Mom. The song is pretty bad, yet for a middle aged white woman she does a fairly effective job of lyrically ethering Chamillionaire. Have a listen:
Shila Mitrah's Jamrag
If that doesn't work, copy and paste this link into your browser: mms://6400r.psx.net/music3/JamRags/23.mp3
Still not interested in soccer? Check out these videos, they show the best of what the sport has to offer:
World Cup 2006 Preview with N.W.A. soundtrack
Nike commercial
Zidane vs. Ronaldino
6/12/2006 8:01:38 AM posted by Fresh