Skee-Lo x ESPN: Smaller

He famously rapped about wanting to be a little bit taller, but Skee-Lo seems to have changed his tune in this new ad for ESPN.

Yes, that's right: to launch its first brand campaign for the sports channel, Droga5 New York enlisted the vertically-challenged rapper to record a new version of his 1995 hit I Wish - with a twist. American football star Paul Crawford stands in for Skeel-Lo in the accompanying video, but he's got the opposite problem: at 6'8", Crawford wishes he was actually a little bit... smaller.

Why? Well, aside from struggling to get out of his souped-up car, it's because many of the NBA's players, like Steph Curry, Chris Paul, and Terry Rozier (all of whom cameo in the video) have defied conventional height standards to become superstar "small ballers", thereby inspiring an entire generation of young basketball fans to play the game differently. 

And if that's made you nostalgic for the original, here it is: