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Lewis Hamilton Snubs Good Friends Kanye West, Jay-Z to Pass the Crown to New Greatest Rapper

Published 10/06/2022, 2:06 PM EDT

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7-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is quite a hip-hop fan. He is an R&B artist himself and goes by the pseudonym XNDA. But who does he revere the most in the hip-hop world?

XNDA aka Sir Lewis Hamilton recently listened to a song that has blown him away. He loved it so much that he shared it on his Instagram story. Hamilton showered praises on one artist of the song.

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Lewis Hamilton’s favorite rapper

In one of his latest Instagram stories, Lewis Hamilton shared a screenshot of him listening to ’90 Proof’, a song by Smino, featuring J Cole. Hamilton is smitten by the ‘Middle Child’ famed artist who recently received a lot of acclaim for his album ‘The Off Season.’

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In the Instagram story, Hamilton tagged Cole and wrote, “truly one of the greatest rappers past and present”. Hamilton had previously praised Jay-Z on ‘In Depth with Graham Bensinger’. He said that he grew up listening to his music. About Kanye West, he said that he shares such a good relationship with the rapper that he could park in front of his house and hang out with him anytime he wanted.

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Hamilton himself featured in Christina Aguilera’s 2018 song ‘Pipe’ under the pseudonym XNDA. While the fans quickly recognized his voice, Lewis confirmed his identity only in 2020. He revealed that the reason for having a pseudonym was him being insecure and gauging if the song received a good response.

Is Lewis Hamilton going to perform at Super Bowl?

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Lewis recently created a frenzy among fans after the Mercedes F1 team shared a photo that showed that he might perform at the Super Bowl half-time. Pop star Rihanna confirmed her headlining the show through her Twitter post where she was holding a football.

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Mercedes F1’s official Twitter handle posted a photo of Hamilton holding his racing helmet in a very similar fashion to Rihanna’s post. To be fair, they could’ve been trying to jump on Rihanna’s bandwagon to mark the return of Formula 1 after a 3-week break. But fans obviously took the bait. Let us be real though. We would all like to see XNDA make a comeback. Fans have been teased by Aguilera’s song in which Hamilton had a second part.

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As fans, we don’t want to rule out the possibility of him performing in the Super Bowl. Who knows, maybe it would mark his much-awaited album release. Just drop the album already, XNDA.

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Nischay Rathore is a Formula 1 Author at EssentiallySports. Being a law graduate, he has worked at the Supreme Court of India as well as the High Court of Delhi. However, due to his adherent love for sports, he has now set out to start his journey into the world of Sports Journalism.
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