Watching NBA Players “Watch The Throne”

Posted by on Thursday, August 11, 2011 2 Comments

When Watch The Throne (the Jay-Z/Kanye West collaboration, duh) was released to the masses, the immediate Twitter reaction on was one of the most incredible events I’d ever seen transpire online.  Not only did everyone feel a need to voice their opinion, but every tweeter took at least 20 tweets to thoroughly establish their point. It was a great night to be alive and on Twitter.

The album has been out for a few days now, and the Twitter floods have subsided for the most part. However, trickling in are opinions from our favorite athletes! And understandably, their approval means a lot more than what our best friends think.

Here’s what Brandon Jennings thought about the album:

This UMMMMMM "Watch the Throne" smhhhhh WOW!!!!! #Amazing
August 7, 2011 5:51 pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite
@BL00dline3
Brandon Jennings

But sometimes, you just can’t express how you feel about something in 140 characters. Sometimes, you really have to show people.

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(NSFW, because Jay-Z tends to say bad words)

This is T.J. Ford vibing out to “N—- In Paris.” Now, Ford doesn’t exactly say anything. He kind of just bobs his head around with a face that conveys an expression that somehow toes the line of supreme satisfaction and complete-and-utter apathy. He wouldn’t be able to explain that on Twitter — mainly because that last sentence comes out to 158 characters.

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And this is Zaza Pachulia being Zaza Pachulia. He isn’t singing a Watch The Throne song, but rather electronic artist Cassius’ “I Love U So”, the original version of what Mr. Hudson covers on “Why I Love You.” However, considering the massive amount of hype that WTT has garnered, it isn’t crazy to think that Zaza found the original through Kanye West’s version. Surely it wouldn’t be the first time Kanye popularized an electronic artist. Remember Daft Punk’s sudden boom once “Stronger” hit the radio?

Granted, neither of them actually let out so much as a whisper, but still: sounds so soulful, don’t you agree?

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About Danny Chau: Danny is a writer for Hardwood Paroxysm. Once upon a time, he was the author of Plantar Fasciitis, an NBA blog that had no visitors because it had an impossibly difficult URL name, and no one could find it on Google because it's also the name of a common foot injury. In his spare time, he runs a blog solely dedicated to Chick-Fil-A called Starving on Sundays. He is sure it'll develop a cult following.

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phil from pasadena

I am a huge fan of your writing, always amazed at how a 19 year old could write so beautifully about basketball, especially loved your Terrence William piece (quoting Kafka for a basketball player is always a winner in my book), but...

"Surely it wouldn’t be the first time Kanye popularized an electronic artist. Remember Daft Punk’s sudden boom once “Stronger” hit the radio?"

As a Daft Punk fan, I have a huge problem with that statement.
Daft Punk did not receive a sudden boom because of "Stronger" - they were already an established group with a steady/large fanbase.

I cannot think of a single musician who were popularized due to Kanye's "work," and yes I am a Kanye hater.

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Danny Chau

Firstly, thank you.

Secondly, I was aware of Daft Punk's fan base. I considered myself a part of it in the early 2000s. Hating Kanye is fine, but I wouldn't understate his influence (especially to a younger demographic). He's introduced plenty of people to artists and musicians they've never heard of.

But yeah, I didn't make that statement clear. It's not like Daft Punk was an unknown at the time.

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