What with all the football news thundering into The Spoiler HQ minute after minute, day after day, week after week etc, sometimes little gems like this slide silently under the radar. It’s hardcore rhymesman/football player, Ryan Babel, hip hopping in a rap studio.
If you’re having trouble understanding the words, don’t worry, it’s because most of them are in Dutch. Apart from “motherfucker”, of course, which apparently has no translation.
Big centre-back is about to set the airwaves alight
White Chalk Music Ltd was founded by occasional England captain Rio Ferdinand (pictured above with a gentleman who advocates the poppin’ of collars) and his business partner Courtney Richardson with the intention of finding the ‘newest and freshest’ talent Manchester has to offer. The victor in a competition to be signed by Rio’s label was extremely new and fresh rapper Nia Jai, an ex- nurse from Burnage. Her debut album Black Ice will be released on October 6, and it features one of the greatest lyricists of our time, who also happens to play for Manchester Utd. On one track, Ferdinand raps:
“This is Rio Ferdinand. Make sure you do not sleep on Nia Jai, White Chalk’s first signing. This girl spits out fire.”
Nia Jai, who should under no circumstances should be ‘slept on’, is being tipped for stardom, yet The Telegraph claims Rio’s friends are not too impressed by his musical contribution. Clearly, they don’t know great art when they hear it.
See Nia Jai collaborating with Chipmunk and Natty Boii after the jump…