{"id":344118,"date":"2013-10-30T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=344118"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:13:32","slug":"video-lebron-james-rubber-city-soul-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/video-lebron-james-rubber-city-soul-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: LeBron James “Rubber City Soul” Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus Shuttlesworth once said, \u201cBasketball is like poetry in motion.\u201d That motion turns to poetry in the new \u201cRubber City Soul\u201d Poem <\/strong>inspired by LeBron James<\/strong>. Written by Lemon Andersen<\/strong>, also the author of the poem \u201cKing\u201d ten years prior, this tribute honors LeBron’s upbringing in Akron while looking ahead to his future. Peep the poem in the video above and read the words below.<\/p>\n

For In a land far away
\nUnder a blanket of the stars
\nOn a moonless night
\na child was born in a kingdom
\nOf basketball gods<\/em><\/p>\n

In a county they called
\nthe summit
\nnorth of the capital
\na rubber city
\nWhere the Akronites run it<\/p>\n

This child earned
\nLearned
\nthe labors of his love
\nFrom watching his neighbors
\nRise above hard work
\nAt the local mills
\nWatching the sweat of their brow
\nSeeing his comrades growing up
\nTrying to conquer the hill
\nA steep field of wheat
\nworn from cleats and cold
\npounding the bottom of their soles
\nAgainst tough Ohio winters
\nand unconditional vertigo<\/p>\n

But he rose
\nfrom the dusk
\nof Elizabeth Park
\nAnd her projects
\ntill the arrival of the dawn
\nrose from a high school phenom
\nStraight to the pros
\nnever forgetting how
\nthe sun set on Lake Erie
\nHow the rough waters
\nof the spotlight
\ncan ravage
\nFlow savagely along
\nalways high tide
\nKnowing the odds against him
\nYet his will to compete
\nRemained Hickory Street strong<\/p>\n

For In all this love for his land
\nHe learned to live
\nby the code of a warriors song
\nand glorious were the
\nwins stacked
\nto the back of the wall
\nbanners dropped
\nfrom the top of the rafters
\nFor all the world to see
\nthis man child rise up
\nagainst the odds
\nunder the Akronite philosophy
\nIn his mind ever burned:
\nTalent is given
\nGreatness is earned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesus Shuttlesworth once said, \u201cBasketball is like poetry in motion.\u201d That motion turns to poetry in the new \u201cRubber City…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224791,1225493],"tags":[117],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVideo: LeBron James "Rubber City Soul" Poem | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Video: LeBron James "Rubber City Soul" Poem shoes. 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