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Major Nine Details New ‘Kardiology’ Project & Moving Between the Worlds of Sports and Music


The professional football player and rapper-producer opens up about new music, balancing sports and music, and why he'll never stop repping Florida.

In 2017, he scored a placement on Rick Ross ’s top five Billboard 200-charting Rather You Than Me album (alongside Grammy-winning R&B singer-songwriter Raphael Saadiq) on the grand album opener “Apple of My Eye.” Ross’ By 2020 – the same year the Browns waived his multi-million-dollar contract – Major Nine snagged yet another high-profile placement, this time on Chris Brown& Young Thug ’s Slime & B, which peaked at No. In a new interview with Billboard, Major Nine discusses his new Kardiology project, moving through multiple industries as an artist-athlete and the ever-deepening union between the worlds of music and sports. We’re seeing the sports and music worlds continue to bleed more and more into each other every year, especially since Roc Nation and the NFL partnered for the Super Bowl halftime show.

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