{"id":157596,"date":"2024-12-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=157596"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:38:57","slug":"americans-go-crazy-for-the-serb-jokic-gets-a-rap-song-and-the-video-goes-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/americans-go-crazy-for-the-serb-jokic-gets-a-rap-song-and-the-video-goes-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICANS GO CRAZY FOR THE SERB: Joki\u0107 gets a rap song, and the video goes viral! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/tag\/nikola-jokic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nikola Joki\u0107<\/a> has captivated the world with his basketball skills &#8211; not just those who follow the magical sport under the hoops. The Serbian center has inspired an American artist who wrote him a hymn.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DJ Maculate posted a song dedicated to the world&#8217;s best basketball player on social media &#8211; it&#8217;s called &#8220;Sombor Shufflin&#8221; after Joki\u0107&#8217;s signature one-legged step-back shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nikola Joki\u0107 would never make a rap song himself, so I did it for him over the last five weeks. Introducing: Sombor Shuffle. Features great work by Alec Guinn, and I did the animation. The greatest of all time got shoes and a book this month, and now he has a hymn,&#8221; the post reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nikola Jokic would never make his own rap song, so over the last 5 weeks, I did it for him. I present to you: Sombor Shufflin. Featuring the amazing work of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alecgwin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alecgwin<\/a> all animated by me. The best player of all time got a shoe and a book this month and now he has an anthem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zhlHkywa0n\">pic.twitter.com\/zhlHkywa0n<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Maculate\ud83c\udf39 (@DJMaculate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DJMaculate\/status\/1866162699727753644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The animation uses the most famous works of world art. In Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8220;The Last Supper,&#8221; Joki\u0107 is depicted as Jesus, while in Paja Jovanovi\u0107&#8217;s painting &#8220;The Migration of the Serbs,&#8221; he is portrayed as Arsenije III \u010carnojevi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Denver teammates also appear as supporting characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song emphasizes that Nikola is &#8220;the king of this game,&#8221; mentions the fact that he was a three-time MVP &#8211; and that it should have been four times, talks about Serbia and, of course, his love for horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The connection between rap or hip-hop culture and the NBA league is unbreakable, a large number of players also make music, among the most famous are Damian Lillard and Lonzo Ball, and Joki\u0107&#8217;s teammate, Aaron Gordon, has also tried his hand at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbian-children-in-chicago-will-study-in-the-best-school-in-the-world-nikola-tesla-school-opens-with-the-most-innovative-methods-and-no-woke-culture-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">SERBIAN CHILDREN IN CHICAGO WILL STUDY IN THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE WORLD! \u201cNikola Tesla\u201d School opens, with the most innovative methods and no woke culture (VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/do-not-care-about-human-lives-chinese-company-refused-to-check-the-stability-of-the-station-in-novi-sad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">THEY DON\u2019T CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIVES: Chinese company refused to check the stability of the station in Novi Sad!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbs-again-in-trumps-nest-president-thanked-the-serbian-community-in-the-u-s-his-most-loyal-voters-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">SERBS AGAIN IN \u201cTRUMP\u2019S NEST\u201d: President thanked the Serbian community in the U.S., \u201chis most loyal voters\u201d! (VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Izvor:<\/strong> Sportal, <strong>Foto:<\/strong> Printscreen X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 has captivated the world with his basketball skills &#8211; not just those who follow the magical sport under the hoops. The Serbian center has inspired an American artist who wrote him a hymn. DJ Maculate posted a song dedicated to the world&#8217;s best basketball player on social media &#8211; it&#8217;s called &#8220;Sombor Shufflin&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":157597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,3392,1129,1784,3393,1275,249,1695,250,119,3350,23,3413,91,1237,113,198,135,15],"class_list":["post-157596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-amerika","tag-amerikanci","tag-basketball","tag-denver-nagets","tag-dj-maculate","tag-drustvene-mreze","tag-kosarka-2","tag-nba-league","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-pesma","tag-rep","tag-sad","tag-serbs-in-nb-a","tag-sport","tag-srbi","tag-srbija","tag-united-states","tag-usa","tag-video","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157622,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157596\/revisions\/157622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}