{"id":286021,"date":"2020-01-07T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1108965"},"modified":"2020-01-07T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T13:48:21","slug":"shaquille-oneal-playing-old-town-road-on-a-plastic-horn-is-a-must-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/shaquille-oneal-playing-old-town-road-on-a-plastic-horn-is-a-must-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O&#8217;Neal Playing &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; On A Plastic Horn Is A Must-Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202007\/rs_600x600-200107052915-600-.shaq-tonight-show-EB-1-7-2020jpg.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.203271028037\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.401869158879\">\n<p>Who knew <strong>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/strong> was such a musician?!<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the pro basketball player and<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_fallon\"> Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/strong> kicked off 2020 with a legendary game of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1087325\/emma-thompson-s-recorder-performance-will-give-you-elementary-school-flashbacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the &#8220;Random Instrument Challenge&#8221;<\/a> on <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>. With only a selection of random instruments at their disposal, the duo hilariously attempted to get <strong>The Roots<\/strong> to guess the name of the songs they performed.<\/p>\n<p>First up was Jimmy, who was tasked with playing <strong>Montell Jordan<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;This Is How We Do It&#8221; on a steel drum. Hyped to do his rendition of the famous 1995 hit, he joked, &#8220;Come on, Roots. Really listen. You got to really pay attention to this\u2026&#8221; After experimenting with different strokes, the late night host was able to replicate the song&#8217;s intro and get the point.<\/p>\n<p>For Shaq&#8217;s turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/videos\/301145\/shaquille-o-neal-blocks-shots-on-pop-of-the-morning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the NBA alum<\/a> had to play &#8220;Watch Me (Whip\/Nae Nae) on an oboe. Sounds too good to be true, right?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.866666666667\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.615053763441\">\n<p>&#8220;Excuse me, Roots, what&#8217;s an oboe?&#8221; he asked before doing his best to master the instrument. Thrilled by his song selection, Shaq couldn&#8217;t help but dance along as he played <strong>Silent\u00f3<\/strong>&#8216;s catchy rhythm.&nbsp;Known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/841061\/jimmy-fallon-and-shaquille-o-neal-s-lip-sync-battle-features-a-tonight-show-first-that-nobody-saw-coming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his&nbsp;<em>Tonight Show <\/em>dance moves,<\/a>&nbsp;he even threw in a little Nae Nae to help The Roots figure it out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With things heating up and the score tied, Jimmy&#8217;s next turn was crucial. Using a double contrabass flute, he performed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/carly_rae_jepsen\">Carly Rae Jepsen<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Call Me Maybe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>Surprised by the bizarre shape of the instrument, Jimmy needed a few pointers before jumping in. But, it&#8217;s safe to say that he didn&#8217;t figure it out and lost the point.<\/p>\n<p>Eager to keep the led, Shaq did his best to play &#8220;London Bridge Is Falling Down&#8221; on the electric violin. Once he read the song title, he told Jimmy, &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re going down\u2026This is easy.&#8221; He might have mouthed some of the chorus, but he still got the point.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.253164556962\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.303797468354\">\n<p>For their final number, the pair joined forces to perform <strong>Lil Nas X<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; on the harp and the tuba. Unfortunately, the tuba and Shaq didn&#8217;t quite get along, so the star switched to the Vuvuzela to better perform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1093481\/grammy-awards-nominations-2020-the-complete-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Grammy-nominated song<\/a>&#8216;s&nbsp;melody.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Shaq and Jimmy put their musical skills to the test in the video above!<\/p>\n<p>(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1108965\/shaquille-o-neal-playing-old-town-road-on-a-plastic-horn-is-a-must-watch?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew Shaquille O&#8217;Neal was such a musician?! On Monday night, the pro basketball player and Jimmy Fallon kicked off 2020 with a legendary game of the &#8220;Random Instrument Challenge&#8221; on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. With only a selection of random instruments at their disposal, the duo hilariously attempted to get The Roots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-06 23:51:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}