Former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal has been dropping more verses than Jay-Z lately. In the latest collaboration, Shaq Diesel dropped a verse for a Midwest rapper and gifted the recording artist with a $1 million vehicle.
According to Complex, rapper GAWNE was handed the keys to a million-dollar Rolls-Royce after the NBA Hall of Famer dropped a verse on the rapper’s latest single, “Chaos.” The connection took place after Shaq contacted GAWNE through his Instagram account.
GAWNE was seen accepting the keys to the Rolls Royce.
“Shaq man, it’s the craziest day of my life. Shaq just gave me a f**king Rolls. Goddamn, man. Goddamn, God bless you Shaq,” Shaq responded by telling the rapper, “Now I gotta take an Uber.”
The Rolls Royce given to the artist is shown in the “Chaos” video.
Now that Shaq, a full-time commentator on TNT, isn’t returning to his playing days on the basketball court, he seems primed to hit the radio airwaves, after appearing on several songs this year as he resumes his recording career as a rapper.
Shaq Diesel recently lent his vocals, along with Milwaukee Bucks point guard Damian Lillard, on the remix of Rick Ross and Meek Mill’s recent release, “Shaq & Kobe.”
In September, he was labeled the “greatest NBA rapper of all time” by one of the most respected hip-hop artists in the game, Snoop Dogg, after appearing in Coyote’s “3 Locos.” This was another collaboration hooked up via Instagram when Shaq reached out to Ladies Love Guapo and Ricky Blanco. Blanco dropped a freestyle verse, and it caught the attention of Shaq; the announcer followed him, and it started an online relationship that led to Shaq being featured on the “3 Locos” track.
After discussing a possible feature, Guapo said that Shaq was interested, but only if the track was “some hardcore stuff.”
“He was like, as long as it’s some hardcore stuff, I’m down. So we made a hardcore hip-hop ’90s-type song, and we’re like, ‘Bro, let’s send it to Shaq,’ and he got on it, did his thing, he spit like 32 bars. He went off!” Guapo said.
We will, no doubt, be seeing and hearing more from Shaq Diesel in the future.