It was on "N---a Please," the Neptunes-produced song from the back half of his sprawling 2002 double album, The Blueprint 2, that Jay Z rapped, "I been around the world/I damn near beat Jordan in Around the World." Master P claims that he did Hov one better, actually coming away the victor on the court. The No Limit founder recently sat down with This Is 50 to recall the time he flew out to Michael Jordan's basketball camp to confront him over the grief MJ was giving P's son, the artist formerly known as Lil Romeo. As the story goes, Romeo was wearing his father's signature shoes, rather than Jordans, which were understandably standard issue at the camp.

When P arrives, he challenged the Bulls legend to a pickup game that would eventually involved future NBA stars Gilbert Arenas and Ron Artest, who were then college camp attendees. To hear the man tell it, his squad came out on top of Jordan's, securing freedom of footwear for the sons of rap moguls across the land. In the video above, he also gives a tour of the No Limit offices, complete with giant recreations of its famous tank logo. P, real name Percy Miller, played in consecutive NBA preseasons: in 1998-99 for the Charlotte Hornets, and in 1999-2000 for the Toronto Raptors. (As a point of clarification, the Hornets Miller played for are the franchise that moved to New Orleans and was subsequently renamed the Pelicans. The current Charlotte Hornets were an expansion team originally called the Bobcats, owned by Jordan himself.)

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