"Really love how it pays" - LiAngelo Ball says money made him quit basketball and focus on music 

LiAngelo Ball is opening up about his reasons for quitting basketball and carving his own path in the music industry.

As seen in a new video circulating on X, the up-and-coming rapper, whose brothers are in the NBA, discussed what made him shift industries, and money was the deciding factor.

"Really love how it pays, the way of living," LiAngelo Ball said of his decision to focus on music. "Everything else. I was in the G-League, that's $3K a month. As a grown man, I was getting mine and throwing it," he said. "When I got my music, it wasn't a hard decision. I wasn't contemplating like 'Damn I gotta hoop.' At this point, I got to live now."

LiAngelo Ball's music career and personal life explored

LiAngelo Ball, 26, spent two seasons with the Greensboro Swarm before he briefly worked with Astros de Jalisco. During his time in the G-League, from 2021 to 2023, he reportedly averaged 5.3 points across 50 games in total, and shot just 36.6 percent from the field in the last season.

However, his career in music has seen more success, as his debut song Tweaker went viral earlier this year. At the time, he teased fans with it during a livestream with N3on, and when it dropped, it debuted at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. By the following month, he dropped a remix with Lil Wayne. He has since dropped tracks like Law & Order and Can You Please.

In his personal life, however, he made headlines just days ago when he slammed his ex, Nikki Mudarris, for her claims that he was a “deadbeat daddy."

Back in March, Mudarris took to Instagram to slam LiAngelo Ball for being an abstentee father to their two kids: son Lavelo and daughter LaNiyah.

“We pushing 6 weeks, your kids ain’t hear from you yet!” she wrote. “Diabolical! Exit the chat.”

She accused him of abandoning them for his now-ex-wife, Rashida Nicole. However, he retorted by slamming her back on social media.

"Sh*t I don't like is when n*ggas try to say that I'm a deadbeat pops or something," he said. "Cause I be with my young n*ggas every day, for real. I raised 'em up. I feel like a lot of sh*t be misleading sometimes."

LiAngelo Ball doubled down on his sentiments just last month by dropping his full-length LP, League of My Own, in which one of the songs, Tweaker, addressed these accusations:

“They kick me when I’m down, so can you pick me up? Say I’m a deadbeat daddy who don’t give no f—s. Say I’m an ugly soul who just up and run,” he rapped, per TMZ. “Talk to me dumb like I don’t amount to nothin’, I never really been the type of n—- to reject s–t. But I’m on my way, kicked out like two texts, b—h, I can pull a dream bitch by yappin’ in a Tech ‘fit (Tech ‘fit, Tech ‘fit). But every single day, you find a way to disrespect me.”

While he didn't name-drop his ex, several outlets have reported that he was alluding to her.

Just two weeks ago, the pair reunited for their son's 2nd birthday. At the time, The Shade Room shared photos of them celebrating their kids at a zoo-themed party. Mudarris reportedly left a comment under the post:

"Happy to celebrate our sons birthday and put the bullsh*t to the side."

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