'The expression of hip hop combined with the spirit of competition. We all ate it up.'
Streetballers from Fresno, Calif., and surrounding areas put on their best game to play with the 2004 AND1 Mix Tape Tour Team at the Save Mart Center at California State University Fresno.In the basketball world, the consensus at the time was that those two guys could really play and the rest couldn’t. “Untold” showed the New York game from the tour, but what they failed to mention was that the AND1 all-stars lost to the local NYC team.
No. People’s reputations were rising and falling like stocks. That’s part of the reason that the pay scale was all over the place. It was like they were being paid based on who had the momentum.Matt Barnes. I look back at that moment when I met him and how he was the epitome of toughness, cultural relevance and cool. It all feels weird now.
It’s just is another example of how Black people never get rich off their own culture, but white people who emulate it well always do. Eminem is the biggest example, but I’ve never been that upset at Eminem. But Google old photos of Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears and tell me what many of their outfits look like? Look up who created Fresh Prince. The white showrunners used to openly ask if “this is what Black people would do.
All that said, “Untold: The Rise and Fall of And 1” was a trip down memory lane that was fun at times and frustrating at others. But truth be told, I think I’d rather watch a miniseries about street basketball than learn about some Ivy League kids who made a diorama about how to hack Black culture and won.
Maybe we will one day get that doc, and AND1 will be the part of the story where streetball became mainstream, but was then used as nothing more than a vehicle to make four people rich . At least we enjoyed the time and the moment. Nothing can change how it actually made me feel 20 years ago.
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