Doug Smith’s Toronto Raptors blog
Doug Smith’s Toronto Raptors blog
Here’s the inside dope on that Kanye West song that seems to be the intro music in every arena in the league. No, the NBA doesn’t mandate its use (I can’t imagine David Stern sitting around with a bunch of CDs coming up with some catchy tune). Apparently eight or nine teams use it, and all chose it independently of each other.
And I’m glad to hear, and I know the First Lady Of The Beat, who has come to loathe it as I do (even though she seemed okay with it when she first heard it), that the Raptors are thinking of changing it up. Just, you know, to be their own franchise and not sheep to the musical stylings of other teams.
Not sure when, and not sure to what, but the change should be coming.
And Scott does his ‘happy dance.’
Not yet. Their history in song and video choices leaves a lot to be desired.
Again, the video they used in the playoffs last year (which a network did for them, by the way) was the best they have had. No reason they can’t re-jig it and then add in quotes, etc before each game.