Patrick Beverley is placing the blame on Ja Morant’s actions on two key issues: Violent rap music and bad parenting.
The Memphis Grizzlies superstar has been the subject of multiple issues off the court that came to a head after he flashed a weapon while at a strip club following his team’s loss to the Denver Nuggets.
Chicago Bulls guard Patrick Beverley was a guest on Barstool Sports’ Monday Rundown when he was asked about Morant.
“Lost his mind,” Beverley said. “Parenting, parenting.”
He then blamed pop culture for Morant’s poor decisions and his behavior.
“I think music has a lot to do with this now,” Beverley said. “Especially with this culture. Everyone holding a gun in the video is okay. You know, bling on your teeth is okay. Pants half down your ass, that’s okay. So, that’s like okay now.”
“Back in the day, there was a motherfucker on the beach in a silk shirt talking about some ‘yeah baby, let’s party like we’re in the 80s.’ Everybody had on sick shirts, and everybody was dressed the same. It’s just a product of what we listen to. The culture now is ‘shoot them up, bang, bang shoot them up, bend you over, I got this amount money, I’m on private jets,’” Beverley said.
The 34-year-old Beverley thinks Morant has been heavily influenced by the type of music he listens to and is trying to take on the personality of the artists he listens to.
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“That’s what the younger generation is,” Beverely said. “Sadly to say, it should be based on our music, but it is mostly based on what we listen to, and that’s how it is. Eminem came out, and Eminem was rapping, ‘palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy,’ he had on a hoodie. Everybody back then had on a hoodie and big jeans.”
“If Eminem woulda came out like, ‘yeah I carry pipes, I carry straps, I got 12 guns,’ every White kid in America would’ve had a fucking gun on them back then,” he said.
On Monday, it was reported that Morant was sent to a counseling program. There is no timetable for the star guard’s return to the NBA.
