Most fighters get one anthem. Roy Jones Jr. wrote his own — twice. “Y’all Must’ve Forgot II”, the official music video featuring MB3Five (NBA player Marvin Bagley III) and SM Bullett, is the sequel to the 2002 record that turned his list of grievances into hip-hop history — and twenty years on, the message has not changed: remember the name.
Watch: Roy Jones Jr. — Y’all Must’ve Forgot II (Official Music Video) on YouTube
The record that started it
The original “Y’all Must’ve Forgot” (2002), from Jones’s album Round One: The Album with his Body Head Bangerz crew, was part boast, part evidence file. Jones rapped his résumé at a sport he felt had erased it: the 1988 Olympic final in Seoul, where he outlanded his opponent by a landslide and still lost the decision in one of boxing’s most notorious robberies; the titles collected across four divisions — middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight — a run no fighter who started at light middleweight had ever completed. The hook became his second signature: three words every opponent’s fans had to hear.
Part II: the sequel
The sequel, produced on video by Contender Media, updates the file rather than rewriting it. Jones leads, still rapping his own case — the highlight tape, the knockouts, the four divisions — while MB3Five and SM Bullett take the younger generation’s verses: hunger, sacrifice, the road, the grind. Bagley’s presence is its own statement — a former No. 2 NBA draft pick recording alongside a boxing immortal, two sports trading verses on the same theme: being doubted is fuel. As Jones puts the sequel’s thesis: twenty years later, he still hasn’t changed.
Why it still lands
Boxing has produced plenty of novelty rap records; almost none became part of the fighter’s actual legend. “Y’all Must’ve Forgot” did — quoted by commentators, played in arenas, inseparable from Jones’s ring walks in the public memory. Part II works because it doesn’t chase a new sound so much as renew a claim, with a new generation vouching for it.
Hear Roy Jones Jr. on Apple Music
The sequel streams on video above; Jones’s own catalogue single “Battle of the Superpowers” is on Apple Music below.
MUSIC · DISCOVER
Battle of the Superpowers
Roy Jones Jr.
Apple MusicFAQ
Who is MB3Five?
Marvin Bagley III — the NBA forward (the No. 2 overall pick in the 2018 draft) who records music under the name MB3Five.
What was the original “Y’all Must’ve Forgot”?
Roy Jones Jr.’s 2002 single from Round One: The Album, in which he raps his career grievances and achievements — the Seoul Olympic robbery, his four-division title run — over a Body Head Bangerz production.
How many divisions did Roy Jones Jr. win titles in?
Four — middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight — starting his career at light middleweight, a climb no other fighter has matched.
The verdict
“Y’all Must’ve Forgot II” is a victory lap with its gloves still on: the champ restating his case, the next generation seconding it. Whether you come for the boxing history or the novelty of an NBA player trading verses with a four-division king, the hook earns its return — apparently, some people still must’ve forgot.
