Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson is a boxer and actor from Brooklyn, United States, born in 1966. He is widely associated with a spoken-word recording built around one of his post-fight media rants, which later circulates as an audio clip rather than a conventional music performance. The recording includes boasts about being “the best ever,” references to fighters such as Lennox, Alexander, Sonny Liston and Jack Dempsey, and a religious sign-off, before moving into more abusive and violent language.

He is linked here to rap, funk, R&B, soundtrack and cover tags because of that spoken sample’s later use and circulation in music contexts.