What % Baller Are You?

About This Quiz

Anyone who's even a casual fan of either discipline knows about the massive overlap between hip-hop and sports. Who doesn't remember Odell Beckham, Jr.'s 2018 interview with Josina Anderson, featuring Lil Wayne sitting awkwardly by his side? 

Of course, the biggest crossover act - literally and figuratively speaking - has to be Shaquille O'Neal, the dominant center who also dominated on the microphone. His 1993 rap debut, "Shaq Diesel," achieved RIAA Platinum status, selling over 860,000 copies. Speaking of debut albums - on his 2010 classic "Thank Me Later," Drake explicitly sums up the link between athletes and rappers: "I swear sports and music are so synonymous / Cause we want to be them / And they want to be us."

Over the years, the mutual affection has led to concepts and terminology from sports showing up in hip-hop music. No one phrase, however, has been as ubiquitous as the word "ballin'." In sports parlance, it means to play an exceptionally good game, typically in basketball or football. In the rap world – and now mainstream culture – to "ball" means to not only have extraordinary wealth and status but also to flaunt it for the world to see. 

To put it simply, everyone wants to be a baller, whether they're trying to shoot a basket or rap into a microphone. And everyone also has baller-like tendencies – some of us just have to look a little deeper for them than others. Are you a big-time baller, or not really ballin' at all? Hit the quiz below, and we'll give you the verdict.