The Cleveland Cavaliers signed free agent shooting guard/ small forward Iman Shumpert to a 4-year, $40 million deal this past summer. Shumpert’s talents, however, go beyond the NBA court. As Cavs fans have come to know over the past couple of months, Shump is also a rapper and likes to make music when he’s not on the NBA floor.
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Shumpert announced on Twitter that if he would get enough ‘Retweets’ and ‘Favorites,’ he would release his own remixed version of Drake’s Hotline Bling’ called ‘Highlight Reel.’
If I get 90 rts and favs I will post the link to "highlight reel" (hotline bling cavalier rmx) #kidz
— Iman Shumpert I (@imanshumpert) October 14, 2015
Here’s the song via SoundCloud:
One time wit the quick time. Solid…@imanshumpert https://t.co/0WroVKD5Yp
— MJ The DJ (@_MJTheDJ) October 14, 2015
Here are the lyrics, courtesy of Scott Sargent from Waiting For Next Year:
Lyrics:
(Spoken: You want me to back up from the mic a little bit?)
(You should…call me)
You gotta call me on my iPhone
‘Cause I won’t answer no DM1
If you don’t get my cell phone
You should keep it short with him
Hook:
I know ya’all love my highlight reel
But understand the work it take
You try to comprehend my mental pain
When I took that L to Golden State2
Verse:
I signed for $40 [million] now I’m cool
I went and got my family straight
I’m finna make my pop my chef
My mother makin’ my foundation
But that’s your handle for a steal
I know my bros gonna run her lane
See me and her we think the same
So you my brother n—— never change, ever
I know they love that highlight reel
That’s why they focused on the jumbotron
Don’t tell me I don’t love this game
Ain’t no thug just know that’s what I’m on
I’m tryin to get that past the real
That surgery that blew my day
I’m fighting [breast] cancer with a cast
That explains the pink colorway3
So please don’t tell me mami, chill
‘Cause we did not grow up the same
And I do not deserve the hate
You should just leave me out your conversations
[DJ] MJ just saved me from a tweak
Before they fine me for a tweet
When I go baseline she gon’ geek
I think that’s like her favorite thing
All I know is when my hotline bling
My ladybug is on my phone
Then midnight lead to early on
She the only one deserve my [tone?]
(F— that flow)
Bump it I got it
Bump it I got it
What’s in your wallet
I’m shakin’ ’em solid
I part like I’m Moses
Rap like a prophet
Whole league want to rap now
Oh look what I started
Lord I’m so (?)
Toast to the (?)
Numbers are full now
Just like my father’s
So I’m an Oak Parker4
I root for Chicago
I lived in the Brownstone5
She grew up in Harlem
That’s just the background
Junior will prosper
I might raise me a lawyer
Or maybe a doctor
You can catch us in Westlake6
At the theatre in Crocker7
So chuck me a deuce up
You can keep all that nonsense
Hook:
I know ya’all love my highlight reel
But understand the work it take
You try to comprehend my mental pain
When I took that L to Golden State
