Brian McKnight: Why He Thinks Kobe Bryant Could’ve Been A Hip Hop Star

hollywoodlife.com:

Brian McKnight, 51, has worked with some of the music industry’s biggest names like Boyz II Men, Celine Dion, 52, and Mariah Carey, 50 just to name a few.

It’s no surprise that he knows talent when he hears it and he thinks NBA legend Kobe Bryant, 41, had potential to make it big as a musician. “Oh for sure,” Brian told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY when asked if there was potential to be a big rapper. “For sure.

But knowing Kobe the way that we had gotten to know him, anything that he puts his mind to that he’s really passionate about, he’s going to give it 1000 percent.

He was completely locked in and he was doing his thing.” Before his tragic death in a helicopter crash in January 2020, Kobe had a lot of life still to live and that could’ve