“Thought I Got Jealous”: Shaq’s Unfiltered Diss Monitor on Estranged Dad Has Mother Lucille Bursting With Satisfaction

The primary week of November 1994, Shaq was bullying the Charlotte Hornets on the courtroom and dissing his dad exterior it. In the course of an NBA season, Shaquille O’Neal made his return as DIESEL along with his second album containing a music with putting lyrics. “Biological Didn’t Bother” was an apparent jab at his organic father, Joseph Toney, who was absent all through his life. Shaq’s emotions about his father had been as clear in 1994 as they had been 20 years later when he met the person. For the primary time we all know how his mom felt in regards to the music. Dr. Lucille O’Neal did the uncommon interview on Sway’ within the Morning the place she revealed that her rapper-athlete son opened her as much as a wider vary of music.

Talking in regards to the music, Lucille stated, “When I heard that song I knew that song came from his heart.” This can be a music the place Shaq explicitly acknowledged, “You brought me into the world but you’re not my dad.” In line with his mother, “out of the song came the truth.”

Lucille is conscious of the unhappy fact that there are quite a lot of youngsters on the market who grew up like Shaq with an absentee father determine. She is aware of that’s the rationale why many resonated with that music. “It could have been anybody’s story and I know a lot of people said, ‘man, he got to be talking about me,’ ‘cuz that happens in a lot of places around here and he didn’t have any shame. I was so proud of him when I heard it.”

O’Neal adores his mother a lot, his concern about this music was not digging into previous wounds however worry his mother would have FOMO. “He thought I got jealous but he then he wrote a song about me.” However nothing like what Shaq wrote for his delivery father.

Lucille confessed she by no means listened to rap music although O’Neal virtually grew up on it. However when Shaq Diesel was dropping platinum-selling rap albums, she was not solely pleased with his artistry but in addition transformed to rap music. Together with Shaq’s songs, she began listening to Tupac and Snoop Dogg. Her response to this music needed to do along with her son and she or he’s by no means dictated how he ought to really feel about his organic father.

Shaquille O’Neal didn’t trouble

Lucille was elevating Shaq alone until she met Sgt. Philip Harrison. The identical man Shaq namedrops in the beginning of the well-known music, “I wish to dedicate this music to Philip Arthur Harrison, Phrase up, ‘Cause he was the one who took me from a boy to a man.” The theme of the song is a diss at Toney but the lyrics are an ode of gratitude to Harrison.

O’Neal has credited Harrison for shaping him as an athlete and father. “Biological didn’t bother” and its accompany music video was a part of his 1994 album, Shaq Fu: Da Return. The music charted on Billboard Sizzling 100 amongst others. At that time, he had not met his bio father.

Harrison handed away in 2013, leaving solely fond reminiscences with Shaq. He revealed on Dr Phil that his mom referred to as and requested if he needed to see his bio father. He agreed and on the age of 47, Shaq met Toney forward of his Corridor of Fame induction. One of many first issues Shaq stated to him was, “I don’t hate you.” In his HoF speech, it could be Harrison who featured prominently. As Lucille has cemented, Shaq solely says the reality.