The Truth About Larry Johnson's Rap
Johnson has denied making this rap, above, which appeared on the MySpace page of Kansas City group SBL Mob. But James Tinberg, owner of Basement Entertainment, confirmed Friday morning that the man saying “Fuck Carl Peterson” is definitely Johnson, except Johnson didn’t exactly say the phrase “fuck Carl Peterson.”
Tinberg tells the Pitch that he recorded the Chiefs running back free-styling at a going-away party for former Chief and Kansas State Wildcat Joe Hall. He says Johnson rolled up to Hall’s party in a Bentley two weekends before ending his holdout and signing a $43 million deal with the Chiefs, then free-styled for 10 minutes.
“Everybody’s rapping, and L.J. wants to get on the mic,” Tinberg recalled. “He gets on the mic and raps for a while. He gets off and everybody’s chopping around with the song … switching around what he says and stuff, and he didn’t care. He didn’t think it was a big deal, either.”
Tinberg says a bunch of DJs and engineers at the party edited Johnson’s free-style using an Internet program called Cool Edit Pro. But Tinberg says Johnson bounced out of the party 20 minutes later, so he didn’t hear the edited versions of the song.
Before Johnson left the party though, Tinberg says Johnson was told the free-style was going to be uploaded to YouTube and MySpace.
As far as Johnson denying making the rap, Tinberg says Johnson probably doesn’t remember doing the free-style. “I don’t think he even remembered what he said,” Tinberg says. “He’s probably confused why this guy who sounds just like him – it was him, though – is saying things that he never actually said.
“After his words got twisted around, he might have thought it wasn’t him and that it was someone impersonating him,” Tinberg adds. “His words just got misconstrued because there was a bunch of music DJs over there messing with it. There were points when we were making the song that we had him say fuck anything. It was saying it over again. Like, you could make him say 'fuck, fuck, fuck you.'”
Tinberg says he’s tried to contact Johnson via MySpace but hasn’t heard from him. -- Justin Kendall
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