Sunday, 7 September 2008

Pats Playlist: Sammy Morris

With the start of the New England Patriots [team stats] season today, we kick back off Pats Playlist. In this modern Sunday series, which volition run weekly until the Pats� last game, we talk to players around what�s playing on their iPods when they�re non playing on the field.


Running back Sammy Morris exhausted four age with the Buffalo Bills and iII years with the Miami Dolphins [squad stats] in front coming to New England last twelvemonth. His brief season included back-to-back 100-yard rushing games before he suffered a season-ending thorax injury in October.


Age: 31




First concert: 95 South


Favorite genre: �I hazard it would be rap, but hip-hop and r & b are close, neck and neck.�


Artist or group he�d most care to meet: �Outkast. I like their style. Their songs have that certain Outkast feel or sound to them, just at that same time they�re still different from most rap groups.�


Playlist: San Antonio native Morris� favorites includes rap, current and old-school r & b and a bit of rock music. He name calling Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Alicia Keys and Keyshia Cole as some of his favorite artists, merely also gives props to classic musicians who paved the way for today�s stars: the O�Jays, Al Green, the Four Tops, Sade and Earth, Wind & Fire.


�You could even put Journey on in that respect,� Morris added. �I got a little bite of everything.�


Game day: Morris switches to purely rap music by the likes of Ludacris and his ducky group, Outkast. He says hip-hop beat generation put him into the proper state of matter of judgment to beat the opponent.


About rap, Morris said, �I like the lyrical content plus the beats. But on game day it�s pretty lots strictly precisely about the beat.�





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