Rapper Chuck D, of Public Enemy fame, is one of several who agree that basketball greats and hip-hop excellence share a similar foundation.

A panel of The Athletic writers ranked 24 of the greatest NBA drops in lyrics that spanned almost five decades worth of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon Prime Video tapped Common to pen the theme music for NBA on Prime, the company announced Thursday morning. Common made the ...

Music and basketball are not only linked through years of joint development, they are pretty much impossible to separate. As the NBA All-Star Weekend in San Francisco approaches, the bond gets deeper, ...

You know how the cliché goes: rappers want to be basketball players, and basketball players want to be rappers. This has been a truism since the '90s, when rap really started taking off as a ...

NBA All-Star Weekend in 2026 brings the Celebrity Game into focus, where players and coaches from sports, music and film ...

NBA 2K and San Francisco-based independent record label EMPIRE have announced the release of EMPIRE & NBA 2K Present: Music to Ball To, a limited edition vinyl box set celebrating the NBA 2K25 Season ...

NBC Sports has found its basketball equivalent to Carrie Underwood. The company announced Monday that Lenny Kravitz will perform the introduction anthem music for Sunday Night Basketball, which will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NBA has confirmed that Grammy-winning R&B singer and actress Brandy Norwood will perform the U.S. National Anthem at the 75th ...

LiAngelo Ball is the only Ball brother not to be playing in the NBA. It’s not his fault, however. LiAngelo is a good player who can really shoot and has had opportunities on NBA Summer League teams, ...

The rapper composed the theme alongside musicians James Poyser and Karriem Riggins. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Common made the theme, titled “Victory,” alongside musicians James Poyser and Karriem ...