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Jayson Tatum’s (Probably) Favorite Rapper Nelly to Perform at Halftime of Game 3. Celtics By a Million Tonight.

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Jayson Tatum’s fellow son of St. Louis, the one and only Nelly, is performing at halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals in Boston tonight. I don’t know if Tatum requested a little pump up music from (probably) his favorite rapper or if Wyc think JT and the team needs a little extra juice going into the 3rd quarter, but I like it. If I’m the Celtics I’m letting Nelly put on a 45 minute set like it’s the Super Bowl halftime show. Just let Nelly play “Heart of a Champion” 12x in a row like he’s Jay-Z and Kanye in Paris, solely to get Tatum fired up.

It’s impossible to not wanna run through a wall after hearing that absolute banger, even though Tatum was like Deuce’s age when the Sweatsuit album dropped back in 2004…

True story: “Heart of a Champion” was the Power Song on my Nike+ app back in 2007. And if you don’t know what a Power Song or a Nike+ app are then I have successfully flooded this blog with enough 10-15 year old references for one day.

#RushHourRap – Nelly – Here Comes the Boom

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I’ve been on an Adam Sandler kick the past week and wound up getting sucked into the surprisingly rewatchable The Longest Yard, which I probably haven’t watched more than 5 minutes of since it came out. It is peak 2005 with Sandler at the tail end of his white hot streak, Nelly at the height of his powers, and cameos from a somewhat recently retired Michael Irvin, Stone Cold Steve Austin, D12, Big Boy, and of course friend of the blog William Fitchner. What really makes it scream 2005 though is the fire flames soundtrack from Nelly himself in a song that was a YouTube hype video staple back in the day, “Here Comes the Boom.”