Here’s that Warriors fan’s Cavs-dissing rendition of Drake’s ‘Back to Back’ you needed
Coverage of the Golden State Warriors’ stomp to a 12-0 start, as you might expect, has been largely positive. There hasn’t been very much to criticize or nitpick in an an all-fronts attack that has retained its commitment to spread-the-ball-and-bomb-away offense (No. 1 in points scored per possession) and shifting, switching and suffocating defense (No. 3 in points allowed per possession) deployed at breakneck speed (No. 4 in pace factor), even with head coach Steve Kerr still sidelined.
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With Stephen Curry leading the league in scoring and looking like the front-runner for his second-straight Most Valuable Player trophy, defensive stopper/ace playmaker Draymond Green on pace to become just the 11th player ever to average at least 12 points, eight rebounds and 6.5 assists per game, and Klay Thompson starting to perk up over the last half-dozen games after a slow start, just about the only thing left to pick at about the Warriors is the argument that, if LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers had All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving and power forward Kevin Love available during the 2015 NBA Finals, Golden State might not have been the team ending a title drought.
This months-old debate apparently still rages in some circles, which would be fantastically boring … if it hadn’t also resulted in the creation of the following homemade rap video:
Yes, that is “Back to Back” — the second helping of summertime slander that Drake directed at Meek Mill during their July kerfuffle — rewritten entirely from the perspective of arguing that the Warriors did, in fact, deserve to beat the Cavaliers, that they are likely to do the same when the two teams meet up on Christmas Day, and that they would almost certainly do so again if the two teams were to renew unpleasantries in June of 2016, too.
It is performed by a Bay Area rapper named only P, and shot in portrait mode with no microphone amplification with Curry and Baron Davis jerseys hanging in the background. It includes the line “back to back like it’s a selfie and we both was besties,” and the line “back to back like I was Connery and you was Wesley.” It includes shots at Cavaliers fans who abandoned the franchise after LeBron left town only to rediscover their fandom after he returned, at frontrunners whose fandom migrated north from Miami to Ohio along with James, at the isolation-heavy ball LeBron played in the Finals, at the reported dissension between James and David Blatt and questions about LeBron’s leadership style.
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Whatever your thoughts on P’s lines or flow, this is just delightfully entertaining. It is also proof that the single most effective way to settle barstool arguments is with bars.
Naturally, Warriors fans on Twitter ate the clip up, leading to a guest spot on the Warriors World Podcast in which P explained that none of those punchlines were ever written down — I’ve had to go back and retype a few lines here and there even in this brief post; all praise to the man who drops polished jewels about ball movement off the dome — and that the entire process, from inspiration to completion, took “somewhere between two to three hours.”
“Ironically, you know, my wife was not really feeling that well that night, so she turned in a little early,” P said. “I sat down for an hour and had about 75 percent of it done an hour later, so yeah, that was pretty much it.”
We certainly hope that Mrs. P is feeling better, but we’re also grateful that her early evening resulted in this bit of fried Internet gold. Feel free to prepare yourself for Thursday’s late-night tilt between the Warriors and rival Los Angeles Clippers by running this one back — maybe two times, for thematic reasons, but maybe more than that, to properly aerate those bars — and perhaps by dropping a few shekels on P’s recently released double album, “Lion in a Zebra Mask.” We’ve got to support the things that move us, after all.
Hat-tip to Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group.
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