THE CONNECT
SET FREE RICHARDSON calls from Mexico, where he’s been quarantined for the past eight months. He feels good, he says, wearing his signature No. 7 hat while explaining how the AND1 mixtapes were born.
To sit (virtually) with the very man who founded hoop mixtapes, who shifted the culture of basketball by creating a work of art that embodied it, is an honor. Hip-hop and basketball inspire the same kid, Set Free says over Zoom. Poetry in motion, set to a snare drum.
“The ball is the sound of a drum,” he says. “The ball is
