![]() We can be at the club and people are like, ‘Where’s Junie?’ She’s at home!” Now when we pull up people don’t even ask about us. ![]() She knows nothing but love, she knows to give off a good vibe. We’re actually in the middle of movement, it’s just, we can’t at this point, even with Junie, we can’t ask Junie to be on camera for free. ![]() “So it’s like, we’ll figure out the next move, but it’s not over. It’s another thing where we didn’t say the show is done, we just couldn’t agree on the terms of what’s going on,” he said. However, he says that doesn’t mean it’s a done deal for that series. According to him, though greenlit for Season 2, they didn’t proceed with the series because of yet another situation where terms couldn’t be agreed on. He was a star on the VH1 hit reality show Teyana & Iman, which aired for one season in 2018. He is broadening his horizons, though, including by appearing on Lena Waithe’s new BET sitcom, Twenties. However, this iisn’t his first foray into TV. It’s not that I turned myself into rapper me if basketball didn’t work out. “If the Knicks gave me an offer like, ‘Here you go, Iman, the terms you want,’ let’s go! I’ve been preparing myself for that call. “Music’s only in the forefront because I ain’t get a job,” he added. “I bet on me that the league is going to need me at some point to come back and play ball.” I didn’t like the terms of the contract and we couldn’t come to an agreement, so I said, ‘I’ll sit out if I have to,'” he said. He hasn’t played in the league since, saying other offers weren’t up to par. Shumpert, who has been in the league since 2011 and won an NBA Championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, was most recently waived by the Brooklyn Nets in December. The star was honest about the fact that he is fully committed to his album now because he’s not been able to sign a new NBA deal. He imagines the conversation will go, “‘Are we dealing with a basketball player that raps or has this been a rapper the whole time that just made it to the NBA?’ What are really dealing with here? How do you hear me?”īut one would be remiss not to wonder where going full force with music leaves his basketball career. He is hopeful, though, if not confident, that once people hear his full project, including singles like “ Séance” and “Hello,” they’ll hear him and see him in a new way. He’s just wasting money,’ because technically I was.” But instead it just looked like, ‘He’s just rapping. “People would have been like, ‘Yo, he can rap his a– off’ because it would have been shared on a silver platter,'” he said. After years of dropping singles here and there, he now believes that his music could have gone further by now if he’d put more money, time and effort behind it years ago. That’s what he is betting on This Car Ain’t Stolen to be. You’ve been talking about an album and you ain’t put out one.’ An EP, mixtape here and there, but I hadn’t put out nothin’ that was a production, a cohesive project, visuals with a marketing scheme.” So because they knew me, when they see me now they be like, ‘It’s about time. People were used to me doing stuff like that. “I made videos where to see them you had to be at my homie’s house parties. “I sold my own mixtape in high school,” he said. I was always bouncing these ideas off of her.”īut it wasn’t just a lunchtime and after-school hobby for him. She trying to jump rope, I’m over there rapping. “She had to listen to me at lunch, after school. ![]() “I been rapping in that girl ear since like fourth grade,” he told me. It’s all a surprise for those who have only looked at Shumpert in one way or another, but as he told me after jamming out to his new tunes, he’s been at this rapping thing since he was in grade school with his good friend and hairbraider, Kia.
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