Written by: John Nguyen - Bio info: John Nguyen is a regular basketball junkie who pays top dollar for NBA League Pass who currently resides in California. John’s goal is to bring some real fan noise and unnecessary PR (...) More
Chamillionaire is a rapper straight out of Houston, Texas. I don’t listen to his music, but he is part of this generation’s hip hop scene. Recently, there has been a Youtube video floating around the internet showing Cham reflecting about his encounter with the great Michael Jordan. The meeting was not pretty. At all. It got downright nasty in front of the Boston Celtics. Let the salty Chamillionaire explain it to us through the magic of video blogging.
We’ve heard stories of Michael Jordan acting like this. We really don’t know if it’s true because we weren’t there or these acts were not caught on video for the world to see. Are these stories humiliating? No, but are they damaging? Yes. True or not, the memes, or mind viruses, have already infected our minds. Is it MJ’s fault for putting himself out like this? Hell yes. Take a look at the Hall of Fame speech. I really didn’t have a problem with the speech because it is what it is; a speech. The problem is these interesting stories that trickle from ordinary people meeting up with Jordan. People will brush it off saying, “Oh it’s just Michael being Michael.” Even I wrote that once, but that’s because I’ve realized that Nike and the media have said this to people all along whenever Michael goes off, “Hey. It’s just Michael being Michael.”
The people who placed Air Jordan on a pedestal created this problem. There was so much air that filled his ego; his head couldn’t even fit ordinary hats any more. That infamous Larry Bird quote, “I think he’s God disguised as Michael Jordan,” was probably the one that started it all. This cycle among athletes is terrible; if an athlete is great then he must be a great person, too. Now I’m not judging Jordan. No way. It’s just extremely discouraging to hear all of this. Remember Kwame Brown getting destroyed by him in practice? Remember how Jordan treated teammates? Remember what he did to Scottie Pippen and M&M’s (If that was even true)? Remember how he called out Bryon Russell at the Hall of Fame speech?
“I wanna be like Mike.” I used to, but we start to figure out that there is no Santa Claus. This is the aftereffects of marketing. Where ever the money is, you can bet MJ was there. I actually commend his image staff for hiding this side of him. That must have been some hard work apologizing to people after Jordan burned bridges (if he did). We understand that he usually gets approached infinite times for autographs and pictures when he wants to relax and chill out. I understand, too. It’s stressful. Mike gets annoyed and irritated. Then again, that’s the price of fame, baby. Deal with it because someone is always watching.
Mike shouldn’t be worried about this. He is who he is. Jordan Brand is the one who should be worried. They’re losing support. Losing support means that they lost out on future business. That’s not a good look. After all of this, MJ is not the only one who acts like this. Money and worship usually turns a person this way. I still love MJ the Athlete, but we should get something out of Mike punking Chamillionaire.
The truth is everyone has their faults including Jordan. Pobody’s nerfect.
11 Comments: Michael Jordan straight up punked Chamillionaire.
Posted by dorky girl on 11.13.2009
you people dont even know if this is really true, the only way to find out if it is true is to find out for yourself....... .
Posted by dorky girl on 11.13.2009
you people dont even know if this is really true, the only way to find out if it is true is to find out for yourself....... .
Posted by aaaa on 10.23.2009
MJ still the Greatest but this is just wrong if its true .
Posted by doug on 10.22.2009
this stuff about jordan seems true...its not like theres no proof. plus chamillionaire is one of the most honest rappers out there, as well as being one of the best mc’s in the game, his new single was just number 1 on hiphop charts, hes got a new albu out dec 8th everyone give him a try and buy it. gd article john .
Posted by zolbam1 on 10.21.2009
i always knew Jordan was a jerk! .
Posted by
on 10.21.2009
this is the biggest bunch of bulls---ive ver heard .
Posted by aliasniggfromtx on 10.21.2009
f-mike he dosent know s---about real texas music. RIP Dj Screw .
Posted by 32 on 10.21.2009
What is this? How many rhetorical questions do you have to use in one paragraph? Are you a loser? can you write? I can answer these, can you? get off this site and what music do you listen to, black eyed peas? loser .
Posted by
on 10.21.2009
wow, it does persuade you that Mike is not all that hes portrayed up by the media. Pretty interesting. Nice pick up John. N .
Posted by b-dogg on 10.20.2009
mike is overrated.kobe is the real deal tho man. .
Posted by alias on 10.20.2009
very interesting article i fully believe chamillionaires story .
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