{"id":533951,"date":"2026-07-10T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/533951\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:35:16","slug":"the-norwegian-biggie-smalls-erling-haaland-remakes-old-rap-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/533951\/","title":{"rendered":"The Norwegian Biggie Smalls? Erling Haaland Remakes Old Rap Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Before Erling Haaland was making history for Norway in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/fifa-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 World Cup<\/a>, was he dropping rhymes?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Yes, he was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">The superstar striker made a remix of a song he rapped in 2016, &#8220;Kygo jo,&#8221; with DJ and music producer Kygo, who has worked with high-profile groups\/artists including Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons and Selena Gomez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/sports\/football\/made-it-moment-haaland-releases-remix-of-his-now-viral-2016-rap-song-with-norway-dj-kygo20260709020710\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to ANI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Haaland originally released the song with then-Bryne teammates Erik Botheim and Erik Tobias in 2016, forming the group &#8220;Flow Kingz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">In a post to Instagram on July 8, Haaland captioned audio of the remix, saying &#8220;made it moment&#8221; and asking if this means he&#8217;s &#8220;officially an artist now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">As for his work on the pitch, Haaland helped Norway reach the quarterfinal round of the World Cup for the first time in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Haaland has been shredding defenses this tournament, scoring seven goals in four games, including three braces (June 16 against Iraq, June 22 against Senegal and July 5 against Brazil); Haaland didn&#8217;t play in Norway&#8217;s June 26 loss to France. Norway, which advanced through Group I at 2-0-1, went on to defeat the Ivory Coast in the round of 32 (2-1) and Brazil in the round of 16 (2-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">Next up for Haaland and Norway is a quarterfinal round showdown against England on July 11 from Miami Stadium in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Erling Haaland was making history for Norway in the 2026 World Cup, was he dropping rhymes? Yes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22095,49848,85,46,8446,105,243520],"class_list":["post-533951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-erling-haaland","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-norway","tag-sports","tag-wc-norway-vs-england-07-11-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}