It’s 2017, but if Too Short’s “Blow The Whistle” comes on at a party, it’s guaranteed to get the crowd lit. However, the song reached new heights when Jay-Z decided to write bars to the instrumental.
Back in 2008, former Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson decided to come for the throne when he called LeBron James overrated. When you’re a player of Stevenson’s caliber, it’s probably not wise to come for LeBron like that, which ended up being true as the Cavs won the playoff series in six games.
During that time, HOV caught wind of the trash talk, which prompted him to come to LeBron’s aid.
Here are the lyrics:
Uh! Ask my n*gga Lebron!
We so big we ain’t gotta respond
When you talkin’ to a don, please have respect like your talkin’ to your mom
We let the money do the talkin’
As you see we be talkin’ rather often (chatterbox!)
The ROC Boys in the buildin’
Another hundred fifty million don’t it sound like we yellin?!!!
Who the f*ck overrated?! If anything they underpaid him
Hatin’ that’s only ‘gon make him spend the night
Out of spite with the chick you’ve been datin’
We the best of the best
We ‘gon be here so the rest could take a rest
I gotta get this off my chest
No pause none of that sh*t, get off my d*ck!!!!
When Too Short appeared on Scoop B Radio Podcast, he delieverd a bomb as to why he believes Jay-Z wanted to get on the beat.
“So I guess in his mind he was gearing up to, at that point, I think he was thinking about signing LeBron and having him play for the Nets and he was courting LeBron and LeBron was special to him and ol’ boy [Stevenson] stepped on LeBron’s toes talking shit and Jay was like, ‘I’m going to shut this down,’” he said. “And he probably saw the moment where the crowd reacted to the song and then that was on his mind.”
Unfortunately for Jay-Z and Nets fans, LeBron never came.