Ex-Patriots QB Offers Blunt Review Of Jaylen Brown’s Debut Song

Jaylen Brown had plenty of time to clean the champagne and confetti off his NBA Finals MVP trophy this offseason, and along with preparing for a title defense with the Boston Celtics in 2024-25, the 27-year-old tapped into his creative side and released a debut single in collaboration with A$AP Ferg — “Just Do It.”

Although the music video has raked up nearly half a million views on YouTube, Brown, who’s accustomed to on-court scrutiny, has now opened the door for music critics to insert their two cents — or former New England Patriots quarterbacks. Cam Newton, an on-the-record hip-hop aficionado, gave Brown’s studio work a chance and followed up the first listen with an honest review along with a piece of advice.

“Are you listening to this (expletive) in the club, bro?” Newton said on the “4th&1” podcast. “… This is no disrespect. This is just keeping it a big buck, bro. People ain’t consuming (Brown) in that type of regard. The best rapper I ever heard rap that was a athlete: Dame (Lillard). He’s a basketball player, bro. A lot of people can rap that are athletes. But we’re talking about numbers. They’re not gonna do no numbers, bro.”

Brown subliminally fired shots at Nike — the three-time All-Star’s arch-nemesis corporation — while presumably directing a few verbal strikes toward Los Angeles Clippers guard Kevin Porter Jr., the former partner of Brown’s current girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick. It wasn’t the first time we’ve seen an NBA player — which Newton mentioned — step foot into the hip-hop scene, however, stirring the pot with the NBA’s uniform and apparel producer (Nike) and Porter, who’s been arrested for allegedly attacking Gondrezick in a hotel room in 2020, is more than just a studio-experimenting project.

The Celtics are 42 days away from raising their record-setting 18th banner at TD Garden and opening up the season against the New York Knicks. Brown’s first swing at a music career might not produce a platinum track, but the soon-to-be nine-year veteran is poised to chase a second consecutive championship, which no team has accomplished since the Golden State Warriors (in 2017, ’18).