And there are those who will criticize Durant for using his leg as a canvas for Shakur and James - a pair of late entertainers and activists, both of whom had complicated legal histories - but KD’s ideological motives for getting those tattoos should give you a better understanding of why they’re there. There are those who criticize any athlete for wearing any tattoo proudly, and if you’re one of those people, that requires a bit of introspection on your part. In a weird-ass, crazy way, Rick James meant so much to me.” Every time I hear a Rick James song it brings me back to my childhood. On top of that, every black family played the jams on the weekends when you had to clean up … anytime when it’s weekend, moms, grandma, they played the jams, so Rick James was in the rotation. He personified just being you, loving and caring for what you like, what you believe in.
Who is thinking like that at that age?” This all left his tats open to interpretation, and the most predominant theory was that Durant was channeling his inner Pac - another Maryland native who embraced a “ Me Against the World” persona in the Bay Area. Still, Durant offered little explanation for his new ink, other than to say of the 2Pac tattoo, “ To be so young and say the things he said. Once prone to getting “ business tattoos” undetectable beneath an NBA jersey, these were front and center.
With these ideas in mind - inwardly lending an ear to the true spirit of black culture and outwardly giving a voice to those who are not being heard, tuning into the past and harmonizing the future - we recognize that Durant’s racial awakening also included a pair of tattoos on his left leg: one of Tupac Shakur and the other of Rick James, respectively inked before and after the 2016 Summer Olympics. Just me saying that kind of woke me up a little bit, like ‘Damn, that’s all I’m good for?’ Like, if I wasn’t a basketball player, what kind of man would they look at me as, you know what I’m saying?” “They didn’t really apply to me because I could put a ball in a basket.
“I didn’t have it as rough when it comes to that, as far as social or systematic oppression or any social issues,” Durant told Murdock.
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