We all like to play music to workout so why wouldn’t football players do the same during practices? Well more and more teams are implementing professional DJs to provide an appropriate soundtrack for practice and warm-up sessions. The Seattle Seahawks are one of the those teams. Unfortunately one of the artists the players really want to hear is Future. With their quarterback Russell Wilson dating Ciara, and Ciara’s ex and babyfather being Future, things can get a bit tricky.
via Billboard interview with Seahawks DJ DV One::
Among the players, last year it was Drake and Rick Ross. This year, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for Future. But that dynamic is weird too, because I can barely play Future with Ciara running around and that’s her baby’s dad. It’s just that he has a dope-ass album out right now, players like to hear it, it definitely gets you pumped up — even though it’s low-tempo, it’s still stuff that you want to hear — and then you’ve got Ciara running up with little baby Future and she’s dating Russell so it’s like, “Oh f—.”
If they were to ask me to play “Tony Montana” I’d be like, get the hell out of here. If they ask me to play “Commas” or “Trap N—-s” or any of this type of shit, I’m playing that all day. It’s a weird balance — how do I play this and feel comfortable?
I also feel weird playing Ciara, because I was playing Ciara before she started dating Russell. I’d play “Goodies” and stuff like that for the crowd because it’s good music that white people know — it’s dance-y music, it’s popular, it’s stuff that you can get away with playing. Now that she’s dating Russell, I don’t want people to be like, “He’s just playing that because she’s dating Russell.”
