Millions of basketball fans listen to Shaquille O’Neal talk hoops. O’Neal’s an analyst on TV’s “Inside The NBA,” the long-running half-time and post-game show also featuring fellow former NBA stars Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith and esteemed broadcaster Ernie Johnson.

Here’s a chance to listen to O’Neal in a whole different way. And in person.

As his deejaying alter-ego DJ Diesel, O’Neal will perform at Huntsville, Alabama’s Orion Amphitheater, as part of the Breakaway Music Festival there Oct. 3 and 4.

Other artists set for Breakaway at Orion include pop duo Chainsmokers, festival-famous deejay Kaskade, and Brandi Cyrus, another deejay and half-sister of superstar singer Miley Cyrus. All told, more than 20 artists are scheduled to perform. Tickets are for both days and start at $170 plus fees via universe.com.

Breakaway is a touring music festival, and this year the fest is coming to locations from Las Vegas to Philadelphia to Northern California. Some of the lineups vary from show to show. It doesn’t appear a by day schedule has been released for the Huntsville show yet on Breakaway’s website.

According to setlist.fm, DJ Diesel sets have mixed in tracks by artists ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Journey to DMX.

Music has long been a passion for the 7-foot-plus tall legend. He’s released four rap albums, and his 1993 debut, titled “Shaq Diesel,” a reference to the self-given nickname, moved more than a million copies.

O’Neal played college basketball at Louisiana State University. In the NBA, he starred at the center position for teams including the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.

He was a four-time NBA champion, 15-time all-star, two-time scoring champ, the 1993 Rookie of the Year and 2000’s Most Valuable Player. O’Neal was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016, following a 19-year career.

Interestingly, once in 1997, O’Neal ended up jamming at a rehearsal studio with hard-rock stars Guns N’ Roses. This was back when GN’R was working on “Chinese Democracy,” the band’s infamously long gestating album, which wasn’t released until 2008.

O’Neal, recording a Taco Bell commercial in an adjacent studio, stopped by to say hi after reading the band’s name on the studio’s bulletin board.

GN’R singer Axl Rose, the lone classic era member still in the band by then, wasn’t at the studio that day. But keyboardist Dizzy Reed, with the band since 1990, was.

According to Reed, after O’Neal and the band finished a funky improvised jam, O’Neal got out on the floor and break-danced.

As Reed recalled in a 2006 interview posted on a GN’R online forum, “If you’ve ever seen a 7-foot, 300-pound guy do the Worm, it’s the most amazing thing.”