Top 15 Athletes Turned Rappers

Rasheed Wallace gets tossed from games routinely and while clearing his head in the locker room, he had plenty of time to think up rap lyrics. He's a pretty intimidating dude, so his rap lyrics hold that much more weight.

He performed in rap when he was Ron Artest, but this dude is good at what he does. As his basketball skill goes down, he's trying to make up for that in other areas. What a better area of skill than rapping.

The former electrifying Kansas City Chiefs special teams man and wide receiver might be gravitating more toward the rap game. He's still young and has plenty of time in the NFL, but why waste time there when you can be writing the best lyrics ever?

Floyd Mayweather is a huge name in sports, and is a growing rapping influence as well. You'd think all those knocks to his head during his boxing matches would make him incapable of rapping effectively, but that's not the case.

CJ2K has the beats to be a good rapper, he's just not the best at rhyming. With a little bit of work and the right label, Chris Johnson could be impressive at the mic as well.

As a former No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, Joe Smith wanted to be known as a great NBA player. That never quite worked out for him. He has already tried rapping, so if he can hone his craft, perhaps he can become better known for that.

This might be the most hilarious athlete rapper of all time. A white soccer player is the last person you'd ever expect to try his hand at rapping. He was by no means good, but hey, at least he tried.

The legendary former member of the Utah Jazz also tried his hand at rapping, but wasn't great at it. Who would've thought the rap community in Utah wouldn't accept him with open arms?

Jason Kidd has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, but he used to be in the news partially because of his rapping. He's not the best rapper in the game, but he's entertaining if nothing else.

Early in his career, apparently Kobe Bryant thought that producing rap albums was the way to up your public persona. While that didn't work well for him, him becoming one of the greatest players of all time did.

A member of the Fab Five at Michigan and a player on some pretty good Los Angeles Kings teams, Chris Webber made a name for himself in basketball. Some may also know him as a rapper who is trying to up his game.

Tony Parker isn't the first person you'd think of as a rapper, but he can spit game almost as well as he can play it. When his basketball career is over, perhaps he can get deeper into the rap game.

Allen Iverson is a very believable rapper. He ran with a pretty dangerous crowd during his playing days, and that translated to his dangerous persona. He uses that when rapping to make him sound more legitimate.

John Cena is one of the best WWE wrestlers of his generation, and he can drop beats as well. You may not expect it from him, but he can mix rhymes better than most in the industry.

Deion Sanders went big in everything he did, and that was no different in his 1994 album. He's actually pretty good, but he apparently decided sports were still his outlet.