Kevin Durant says he and LeBron James didn’t just share a basketball connection - they recorded music together, too.
KD says he and @KingJames recorded three tracks together 👀 pic.twitter.com/JQGHGCCeZn
— Boardroom (@boardroom) August 27, 2026
In a recent conversation with Speedy Morman, the Houston Rockets veteran opened up about time spent in Akron in 2011 and said he ended up laying down multiple songs with James. Durant said the session came together after he spent four or five days working out with James and found himself around a studio that had been set up there.
“Three songs, I think,” Durant said. “So, I went to Akron in like 2011 to work out with him for like four or five days.
And he had a studio because Rich Paul and I were really the ones who got it going and convinced LeBron to rap, because Rich Paul was trying to recruit me when he first started Klutch. And, actually, I liked Rich.
So, we hung out a lot.”
Durant said the music making started with James’ agent, Rich Paul, before the pair pushed James to jump in and rap as well.
“So, we were just rapping and convinced Bron to rap that one day,” Durant added. “He got in there and locked in.
Anytime somebody do something for the first few times, it's forced - it's a little forced. But once you get that flow, he would've figured it out.
He loves rap.”
Durant also said he doesn’t know where the songs ended up, or whether they still exist.
“I don't know - that's a good question,” Durant said. “They're in that studio in Akron somewhere.
The engineer or somebody's got them. I think that's who dropped it.
The engineer dropped it. He dropped one of them, and that's how people even heard about it.”
A clip of one of the songs can be heard near the end of Boardroom’s post on X, formerly Twitter.
Durant also touched on a range of other subjects in the same relaxed interview with Morman as he heads into his second season in Houston.
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