I've been meaning to post this for a long time.
I'm getting it up now so it's technically here on a Friday (on the West Coast at least). #freescenes is hopefully going to be a Friday thing now.
I'll repost and comment later, but here's a nice long free scene for y'all.
Shaquille O'Neal and christian laEttner discuss...
MUSIC: “Jump Around” by House of Pain.
SHAQ sits at a card table, playing cards.
CHRISTIAN LAETTNER enters, dancing (he's doing the East Coast Stomp, to be specific).
It's the best hip-hop song of the year, man.
Best hip-hop song of the year, bro, I'm telling you, man, this changes everything, man.
Sit down and play cards, Christian Laettner.
And it's not a white thing, man. I went to Duke, not Notre Dame. No Fighting Irish thing, man. Just hip-hop, bro. We listened to this song after we won the tournament, man, and we jumped around, man, when it got to the jump around part, we jumped around, you can imagine, man, we celebrated and we jumped up jumped up and get down jump jump jump jump--
Christian Laettner. Sit down. Play cards.
You always call me Christian Laettner.
You're so formal, Shaquille O'Neal.
Whatever you say, Shaquille O--
Okay. Shaq. You're the number one draft pick, right. Whatever you say, Shaq.
Why bother? You're going to win.
You're better than me at cards.
Better than you at most things.
Well, I don't know, let's not get crazy--
Better than you at basketball.
Tell me one better hip-hop song this year.
And don't say Jump, because that's just a rip-off of Jump Around--
Christian Laettner plays “Jump” by Kris Kross.
No, really, listen to it, I know you're going to argue with me about it, but listen, it's a rip-off. We wouldn't have listened to this after winning the tournament.
I know you won the tournament.
Oooh. What's the matter? Sensitive, Big Man?
My name is “I Won The NCAA Tournament and Hit The Turn-Around Jumper Shot of The Century and Probably Should Have Been Tournament MVP But My Boy Bobby Hurley Won It and He's From Duke Anyway and We Won The Tournament Anyway.” That's my name.
Christian Laettner pushes the pot towards Shaq.
Can't believe you like this song.
Shaq pushes the cards to Christian Laettner.
Why? You're just going to beat me again.
You get your call about the Dream Team yet?
I'm gonna play my song again.
They called you about the Dream Team?
Christian Laettner plays “Jump Around.” His dancing serves as the answer to Shaq's question.
Christian Laettner dances.
Christian Laettner. They offered you a spot on the Dream Team? The last spot. The last spot on the Dream Team.
They offered the last spot on the Olympic Dream Team to you?
Christian Laettner? The Dream Team? You?
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler...and me.
You get in where you fit in.
And they already have plenty of big men.
But don't worry. They won't play forever.
You'll make the team in four years. Maybe eight.
Christian Laettner deals.
I don't want to play this game anymore.
Shaq gets up and goes to the stereo.
Come on, O'Neal! You're going to beat me, I'm sure.
Shaq plays “The Choice is Yours” by Black Sheep.
Best hip-hop song of the year.
Oooh. Good song. But still--
Best hip-hop song of the year. House of Pain ripped them off.
Whatever. That's crazy. I'm dealing.
Best hip-hop song of the year, Christian Laettner.
Listen to the part that the white boys stole.
Shaq fast forwards the CD.
Oh man, what, man? Why's it gotta be about white guys?
Be quiet, Christian Laettner. Listen.
Shaq plays the “engine, engine, number nine/on the New York transit line/if my train goes off the track/pick it up, pick it up, pick it up/BACK” part of “The Choice is Yours.”
How does the dance to that go, Christian Laettner?
Why is it about white guys though?
You know how the dance goes, Christian Laettner.
Shaq plays the “engine, engine, number nine” part again.
They do the appropriate dance.
It ends with them jumping around.
Whatever, man. That's not the point.
Those little boys in Kris Kross totally ripped off House of Pain.
House of Pain ripped off Black Sheep.
That's one part in one video! And I'm not even sure the video came out before the House of Pain song. Maybe Black Sheep ripped off House of Pain too. Yeah, man, that's it. Totally ripped them off. Bit their style.
Their style, yeah. Their steelo.
You're so white, Christian Laettner.
Again, man? Really? You're making it a white thing again.
Why do you like House of Pain so much?
I can't like white rappers?
But the House of Pain guys are tough. I mean, listen to them.
I mean, that horn, that squeal, and then you can just East Coast Stomp to the whole thing, and just UNNH -- JUMP JUMP -- so fucking tough.
We got some tough rappers too.
Redman's pretty tough. Brand Nubian – very tough, Christian Laettner.
Oh, you know who's tough? Ice Cube. Ice Cube's kind of crazy tough. You like Ice Cube, Christian Laettner?
I'm not getting into a debate with you about the riots.
An argument, whatever. I just like the song.
You think I want to get into a debate about the riots.
The Los Angeles Riots. You think I want to get into a debate about those.
Is there something to debate about the riots, Christian Laettner?
I saw Do The Right Thing, man. I know people debated about that riot.
That was a movie they were debating, not a riot.
So was White Men Can't Jump.
True. But White Men Can't Jump was true though.
And so was the riot in Do The Right Thing.
Maybe. It was prescient, Christian Laettner.
Maybe people should have been ready.
They really offered you a spot on the Dream Team?
It's not like I'm ever going to play.
Christian Laettner deals the cards.
I'd trade my NCAA title to have been number one pick in the draft like you, you know.
Yeah. I totally would, man.
I'd trade being number one in the draft to play on the Dream Team.
Yeah. That's going to be pretty cool.
Christian Laettner pushes his chips over to Shaq.