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The Chicago Bull‘s new shooting guard recently annotated a lyric on a website Genius.com, where he's been featured in some lyrics.
Dwyane Wade commented on Jay Z's and Alicia Key's chart topper, Empire State of Mind. Empire State of Mind was released on October 20th, 2009 and peaked on Billboard's Top 100 at #1 for five weeks. A lyric in that song mentioned Wade and his best friend LeBron James.
If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade
Wade initially didn't believe that he was mentioned and had to go back and hear it. Upon realizing he was in fact mantioned, Wade reacted to the lyric.
This is when I felt like I made it in pop culture. Once Jay Z did it, I felt like I was on that respect level of artists that I respect. I remember where I was, I was with my guys and we were hanging out and somebody texted me like, “Yo, listen to this song.” So I listened to it and then when I heard it, I’m like, “Did he just say what I think he said?”
It’s a lot of different references and obviously Jay Z has his own. Some people from the street have a street reference to it. So I don’t really know. I just know Jeezy came out with that song about Kobe and LeBron, “23, 24” and then he came back and said that. So I didn’t care what it was about. I was just glad that my name was associated in a big song like that, for the city of New York. It’s huge.
You know, when you’re young, you put your name in songs. You’re like “Oh, my name would sound right, there.” So when I first got in the league, I was like, “If I could just get one big artist to say my name, that would be so cool. That would be dope.” And I got a few not only just mention my name, but really be punchlines in songs and I think that’s the dopest part of it. For someone to sit down and write a classic that is going to be a hit, and think about putting you in there as a punchline, that’s pretty special.
It must have felt awesome, and he has been mentioned in other songs by artists that include, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and Fetty Wap.
