John Barnes Unveils the Surprising Rap Classic He Wish He Hadn’t Missed Performing On
From mysterious footballer-turned-rapper Dide, to the likes of Moise Kean and Memphis Depay dropping albums, it isn’t unusual to see players taking on the music industry in this day and age.
But that wasn’t always the case. Indeed, for a long time, the only name that immediately sprang to mind when you said the words ‘footballer’ and ‘rapper’ was John Barnes, thanks to the former Liverpool and England winger’s iconic bars on New Order’s 1986 World Cup banger ‘World in Motion’.
‘I was never asked to be on another rap song’ – John Barnes on why his music career ended with ‘World in Motion’
“No, that never happened,” he tells FourFourTwo on behalf of Video Gamer. “These days you would be asked but, back then, it wasn’t like that at all. Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle did a song together, Gazza did a song, even Pele did a song. But those were pop songs especially written for those guys.
“There wasn’t a proper crossover between established music artists and footballers back then. We weren’t truly celebrities back in my day. Not like today, when you see Premier League footballers hanging out with rappers, Formula 1 drivers and movie stars and all the rest of it.
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