NBA Rap Album Hoax: Basketball Player Announces Hip-Hop Debut, Then Retires

Athletes want to be musicians, and vice versa. It’s basically a scientific fact.

But when NBA player Robbie Hummel posted the following photo to Instagram and announced that he would be dropping an album, people were shocked.

The announcement took his own team by surprise:

Soon, Hummel was recruiting some big names from the hip-hop world to join him on ROB: Road To Redemption.

50 was apparently busy, and fans became skeptical, so Hummel — a Purdue grad who has one year of NBA experience — decided to give them a preview of what was to come:

After directing followers to the DatPiff homepage and telling them to "download my mixtape," Hummel finally hung ‘em up:

But rest assured, no one will ever, ever, ever forget about this. He could win MVP while simultaneously saving the United States from nuclear attack, and people will still be like, "Yeah, but remember...?"

For those disappointed by the hoax, look at it like this: ROB: Road To Redemption is basically this decade’s Detox, but with a better chance of reaching the public.

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