Daniel Gibson is best known as a former basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Gibson had a seven year career with the Cavaliers ending in 2013 and he had some shining moments with them including big games in the playoffs playing alongside LeBron James. Gibson finished his five year $21 million deal with the Cavaliers and basically disappeared from the NBA but now he has resurfaced just not as a basketball player but instead as a rapper, according to Justin Block of Complex Sports.
Gibson, also known by his nickname Boobie, said that when he was recovering from an injury one year he just started writing a lot, not necessarily raps, but moreso poetry as a release from his life. Boobie found it as a good way for him to be alone and vent but at first he never even thought of putting his writings into raps. Now that he is putting it into raps he says that he isn't doing it for the money like he believes most other NBA players do but instead he is doing it because he loves the art.
Gibson officially announced on Friday that he was giving up his basketball career to become a rapper on Power 105.1's "The Breakfast Club" morning radio show in New York City, according to Troy L. Smith of the Northeast Ohio Media Group. In his seven seasons with the Cavaliers Gibson averaged 7.8 points per game but his best asset was his three point shooting and he made 41 percent of his threes for his career.
Just 29 years old, Boobie thinks it's time to try something new and he released his first song, or as he called it a "musical short," called "Suicide." The track deals very heavily with racism in America and touches on a lot of the famous cases where black people were killed including Ferguson, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray. Gibson's rapping isn't the best you will ever hear and the music video is very out there but there is a clear message behind it and he seems serious about this next phase of his life.
Check out Gibson's video for "Suicide" below.
