*Allen Iverson is speaking out about his decades-old rap album “Misunderstood, which he called “terrible” during an appearance on Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls series.
Iverson says the album was a source of tension between himself and late NBA commissioner David Stern, who died in 2020.
“It wasn’t a great relationship when I did that terrible rap album,” Iverson said in the YouTube clip below.
“When I did that bullshit, that’s when I had a problem with David Stern,” he continued.
“Can I take 50? I’ll definitely go at him, I ain’t have no choice.” – Allen Iverson when asked by @namshine if he could take the rapper on the mic.
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“I remember going into the office, and he was reading my lyrics, Kev,” he said. “Like, David Stern was actually reading ‘40 Bars‘ off a piece of paper, and me and (Sixers star) Theo Ratliff — I was trying not to laugh, because I knew how serious it was. And the shit I was saying, obviously, you know … So to hear David Stern rapping it, it was crazy. It was embarrassing.
“It was not a good idea. It looked so bad,” the former NBA star said. “A lot of people tell you what you wanna hear, as opposed to what you need to hear. And I dealt with that.”
The album was meant to mark Iverson’s hip-hop debut under his rap alias Jewelz but it was ultimately scrapped.
Check out his full conversation with Kevin Hart below.
