Posted: Jan 19, 2021 5:15 PM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Orangeville Prep point guard Shemar Rathan-Mayes gets read for a game in Anyone's Game.(CBC)
Not a lot of sports have a genre of music associated with them. It's hard to think of one definitive sound for hockey or baseball or football. But basketball is different. Basketball is inextricably linked to hip-hop. It's what gets played in the stadium, they're linked by the common bond of sneaker culture, and many NBA players have (sometimes regrettably) tried their hand at rhyming. More importantly, both the modern game of basketball and hip-hop were born in Black communities in the U.S. in the back half of the 20th Century. According to Everton Lewis, Jr., the music supervisor for new basketball-focused CBC docuseries