00:00To be part of this weekend and being Mexican, it really means a lot for me because I'm the one
00:04representing my country here, my Mexican flag wherever I go and I'm just proud. I'm just proud
00:09to represent my flag and my colors. It was 2026 All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles and we had to
00:15make a few stops from the NBA crossover event with our boys Cordes to catch up with some pros
00:20about how to do the weekend right. Music and basketball or sports always cross paths for me
00:26to. I'm more like Steph. We even got to congratulate the new Adidas brand ambassador Peso Pluma.
00:32We take you there and billboard all access. At the NBA crossover concert we got to chat
00:46with the boys from Cordes about their celebrity game halftime performance. It's a big honor
00:51to be invited to this certain event. It's the first time NBA celebrity game having the
00:58like halftime performance. It's just a big honor. We are certainly very nervous for it. Yeah I wish we can
01:05perform well and give the fans an entertainment. We just rehearsed rehearsal like two days ago.
01:12That place was so amazing. We were kind of nervous at the time but yeah we hope performance
01:18잘 마무리할 수 있게. Back with the All-Star OGs, fabulous Jim Jones, Dave East and Maino,
01:27we got their two cents on what music, sports and fashion bring to the culture this weekend.
01:32They go hand in hand. I feel like most of the athletes is listening to rap. They're listening to our
01:36music.
01:36We watching them play. We fans of what they doing on the court. Music and basketball or sports always
01:42crossed paths with me too. I remember even when I was just becoming a fan of hip-hop as a
01:47kid,
01:48the guys in my neighborhood, the older guys would bring out like this radio like a boombox in a sense
01:53and like play hip-hop while they would be out there playing basketball and that was like you know
01:59that's kind of some of my first memories of hearing hip-hop blasted loud and guys you know enjoying the
02:06music while they doing it. You know what I mean? And then it went to like you know barbecues and
02:10cookouts and stuff like that and you know I started just just really digesting the music from that point
02:15but I could see how it went along with everything that we was doing. It was becoming like a soundtrack
02:20to while they was playing basketball or while they was playing football they had music out there so
02:24that was that's why it always kind of crossed paths with me too. Hip-hop has helped shape fashion in
02:30so
02:30many genres in the world but it seems like hip-hop and sports are like synonymous like basketball
02:37players always desire to be rappers and rappers always desire to be basketball players and I think
02:42I mix it both but from the fashion standpoint I mean we kind of the hip-hop is kind of
02:47the mood board
02:48for the world I would say so I think it complements each other. Think about just the you know
02:53inception of hip-hop very early on you know think about those old videos you on Fab brought up
02:59Rakim they was wearing Jordans the Jordan sweatsuits and stuff like that the Nike mesh Sergio Tashini
03:07you know the culture always collided always collided because in hip-hop it's hip-hop is fashion right
03:13hip-hop is art is hip-hop is music and when you think about ballplayers they they come from the
03:20same
03:20communities we do so they they just inspire you know the music the look it all collides. Fabulous told
03:27us which taste makers started it all. Saw it really bleed into the NBA kind of in the mid 90s
03:34when like
03:34when Allen Iverson came into the game I think he brought a lot of hip-hop style to the league
03:39you know
03:40from the from the cornrows to the tattoos to the way he was wearing his his his jersey even you
03:46know seeing
03:46him on like slam covers or or sports magazines covers and he would you know be representing an
03:52NBA player but with representing it with a in with a hip-hop style you know saying would have a
03:56chain
03:57on over his jersey and stuff like that so I think he also broke the barrier from like when hip
04:01-hop was
04:02booming in the 80s they still weren't really dressing like that in the NBA yet you know I mean you
04:07see
04:07Michael Jordan and you see Magic Johnson and you know those guys but I think by the mid 90s then
04:13it
04:13started to cross over with hip-hop started to bleed into the style of the NBA and it got so
04:18heavy
04:19that the NBA at one point started making them wear suits too like they started like you couldn't wear
04:24street clothes on a bench anymore and stuff like that like if you was injured you had to wear a
04:28suit or you had to you know I mean and kind of Iverson was kind of the one who broke
04:31that mold of
04:32you know me having to wear a certain style just to be you know I'm saying he brought his own
04:36style
04:37to it and the style he was used to and comfortable with. When the player is like that hot player
04:41that
04:41everybody knows and then the sneaker comes out and people start to gravitate to it the young kids
04:46get inspired how many kids were inspired in you know by what Allen Iverson did players of today
04:52were inspired by that back then. And how sneaker culture has made an impact. I think sneaker culture
04:57it bleeds into everything you know saying but most specifically to hip-hop and sports culture is
05:04players they usually are who you know they they model the sneakers after the hip-hop we always looking for
05:10just a new a new twist a new a new shoe a new style a new look so I think
05:16that's how it always
05:17crosses when a player might inspire on the court and then you know your favorite hip-hop artist wearing
05:22it might inspire you on a street level you know I'm saying so you know when they wear the shoes
05:27in
05:27the game they're not able to wear it swag it out pretty much you know they got to tie it
05:31up and you
05:32know I mean when you could go on the street you had your laces loose style it with your outfit
05:35and all of
05:36that you know what I mean so it crosses both worlds too you know I mean when people get to
05:39look at it
05:40they're inspired by the player who the shoe is modeled after but they're also inspired by the
05:44hip-hop style with the shoe as well. It all goes hand in hand you know the fashion the music
05:49the game
05:50it's all one and this is why I feel like NBA players and artists always had a close-knit relationship.
05:57Trying to catch some the all-star drops the sneakers that's that's what I'm here for. I always look forward
06:01to
06:01seeing what sneaker they gonna premiere or what's they all-star sneaker gonna be so I think that's
06:05another thing that we just look forward to. I think all-star weekend is also bigger than just
06:09the game because it brings community to the cities as well you know I'm saying it brings the players
06:15the artists the energy it all brings that to different cities all over the country and let them
06:21experience it as well. All-star weekend is bigger than just NBA basketball just in general is because I
06:27mean it's it's a weekend it's culture it's it's vibe it's everything we talked about it's that shoe
06:32it's the fashion it's the music it's everything as kids we watched the NBA the dunk contest that was
06:37always my favorite thing to watch to be a part of it you know in these years it's always been
06:41good.
06:42That night we got the invite to cop the new Willie Shavaria and Compton Cowboys drop
06:46done by Peso Pluma himself. I'm a really fan of his work I really love his clothes he's a fan
06:52of mine
06:52I think we're gonna do crazy things together I was always fan of shoes you know since I was a
06:58kid
06:58I was always collecting every shoe that I liked since I was a kid so I remember that from the
07:04bottom of my heart but right now now I know I have like two rooms full of them it really
07:09means a lot
07:10for being the first Mexican to be an ambassador in the fashion week it's just incredible I'm just proud
07:16I'm just proud to represent my Mexican flag in my country wherever I'll go see you next time
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