Hip-Hop and B-Ball

Hip Hop and basketball are parallel cultures. One of the most prominent culture properties that I have noticed is the following.

Back in the day, it used to be the team brought out the star. Now, the star brings out the team.

Back in the day:

Hip-Hop
Groups like Wu-tang yielded stars like Method Man, Raekwon, RZA. Tribe called quest pooped out stars like Q-Tip and Busta.

BBall:
They used to say "Lakers featuring Magic Johnson and Philly featuring DR. J"

Now:

Hip Hop:
You have stars like Eminem bringing out D-12 and 50 cent brining out G-unit

BBALL:
It's Lebron vs Kobe, Tracy vs Vince, etc. Teams are secondary.



The parallelism is astounding eh? Not really.