Kevin Durant just dropped a bombshell, revealing he and LeBron James secretly laid down not one, but *three* rap tracks together back in 2011. This isn’t some urban legend; Durant himself confirmed the unreleased tracks during an appearance on Boardroom’s Speedy Morman’s podcast, Boardroom Talks, around the 50-minute mark. Can you even imagine the fire that might be locked away? Or, you know, the total cringefest if the beats were as bad as one already released?
The Akron Sessions That Nobody Saw Coming
Back in 2011, when the NBA was in lockout mode and these two titans were working out in Akron, they weren’t just perfecting their jump shots. According to Durant, he and Rich Paul were the masterminds behind getting LeBron in the booth. “We had like three songs, I think,” Durant told Morman, explaining how they convinced King James to try his hand at spitting bars. Durant admitted that, like anyone new to the game, LeBron’s initial attempts were “forced, a little forced.” But then something shifted. LeBron found his rhythm, and get this: “He loved rap,” Durant confirmed. Think about the era: Durant was tearing it up with the Oklahoma City Thunder, James was already a star with the Miami Heat, and somehow, they found time to hit the studio and make some music. It’s wild to think what might have come out of those sessions, locked away in some engineer’s hard drive in Akron.
“It Ain’t Easy” and the Beat That Made it “Wack”
While three tracks were apparently recorded, only one has ever seen the light of day. Producer Franky Wahoo released a track called “It Ain’t Easy” in 2018, featuring both James and Durant rapping. That song also stemmed from those 2011 lockout sessions. But here’s where it gets juicy: Durant revealed that the version of “It Ain’t Easy” that the world heard wasn’t the original. He stated they “changed the beat,” and his critique was brutal and to the point. Durant didn’t hold back, saying the beat change “just made the song even more wack.” Ouch! Imagine putting your voice on a track and then having your co-star call it “wack” because of a beat switch. That’s a level of honesty we rarely get from these guys.
The Lost Tapes Could Be Worth a Fortune
So, if one of the three tracks that did get released was called “wack” by one of its own artists, what about the other two? Are they hidden gems, or even worse? The real question, as Durant himself pondered, is “Where are the songs now?” His best guess is that they’re still in that Akron studio, with some engineer holding onto a potential goldmine. And it’s not just talk. Franky Wahoo, the producer of “It Ain’t Easy,” claimed that TMZ tried to buy that single track for a quarter-million dollars back in 2017. If one “wack” song was worth $250,000, what could two *unreleased* tracks featuring Kevin Durant and LeBron James be worth today? The stakes are high for whoever has those masters. We need to know if these lost tracks are future classics or just a couple of legends having some fun off the court. We are all waiting to see if these lost tapes ever surface.
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Originally reported by Bleacher Report.
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