Well, now we know what Greg Hardy was up to during his free time last year while he wasn’t playing football.
Hardy was featured rapping in a video that included simulated gunfire and strippers while he was on the NFL’s Exempt-Commissioner’s list last fall after his domestic violence conviction, according to TMZ.
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The video, “I’m Just Me” by Ja Alan, was shot in late 2014 in what appears to be Charlotte, N.C., as Hardy was sitting out as a member of the Panthers after he was charged with assaulting then-girlfriend Nicole Holder in the spring of that year. That summer, Hardy was found guilty of assault and sentenced by Mecklenburg County Judge Rebecca Thorn-Tin. Charges were later dismissed during a re-trial, in which his accuser elected not to show up for court.
"It'll be a cold day in hell before your girl tries to play me,” Hardy raps over the track. "What you see is what you get. I'm just me, I'm just real, and that's what I do."
Even more chillingly given the circumstances surrounding the embattled Hardy, his lyrics also included this line: "I'm one of the few who don't trip when a chick ole me, A rose is a rose by any other name, that b— is a daisy."
It would appear odd that Hardy, who was still awaiting a re-trial at the time the video was reportedly shot, would be involved with something with such questionable content. But given his recent comments coming onto the Cowboys' field with "guns blazing" and about Tom Brady's wife, Gisele Bündchen, perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised.