Hip-hop music has faced a lot of criticism in the past year.

With Ray Allen and Paul Pierce, they have some heavy hitters over there. If you could play for any team for one day, who would it be?įirst, I'd pick the day of the NBA Finals, Game 7, so I can win a championship. When I first heard AI (Allen Iverson), I was like, 'He's nice.' A lot of rappers want to show people they can multitask. They just want to prove they can do something different. The reason they want to do each other's profession is that they have haters and critics saying they can't do it. Rappers want to be athletes, and athletes want to be rappers. I'm a team player, but I can break you down at any time. But I'm still with them, win or lose.īasketball was my first love, before rapping. So are you over what happened to the Kings against the Lakers? In the beginning, it was the Sacramento Kings, but I ride with Houston, too. I love college because they show the hunger. I love the pros because they have all the excitement. In fact, I'm watching the Pistons-76ers right now. That's why we knew it wouldn't hard to persuade Jones to do a Q&A with. But with his third album due out in July, Jones, who performed at ESPN The Magazine's pre-draft party in New York on Friday, is still a crafty marketer. Mike Jones says basketball was his first love - even before rapping.