To me, hip-hop and sports are tightly intertwined. I’ve never really been able to put a finger on why, exactly, I have trouble separating my love for hip-hop from my love for sports at times. It’s not a race thing, either – I associate hip hop with sports, period, not just with basketball or football (oh, and I’m white…so, so white). From thinking of which song I’d come out to if I were a fighter or batter to which songs I would play during breaks in play at NBA or NHL games, this less than obvious duo has stumped me for a long time.
But it’s not just me, apparently. And 1 Mixtapes are set to hip hop music. Fighters and boxers come out to hip hop songs. I drafted Warrick Dunn in a fantasy league once because ESPN did a feature on him to the song “Fireman” by Lil’ Wayne. And on it goes. The basketball-hip-hop tag team combination may make sense on the surface, but it’s my opinion that sports and hip-hop are intertwined regardless of a game’s prominence in urban areas.
What makes me think this? Other than my own glaring self-serving bias, I have a body of evidence on the part of rappers and athletes alike supporting my claim. So, what follows is a collection of my favorite hip hop lyrics that are related to sports, whether they mention athletes, teams, or just sports in a topical manner.
The list is by no means a ranking and is by no means exhaustive. When it comes to hip-hop music, I like what I like and don’t listen to the rest, as I’m sure most people do. Thus, I’m imploring all of you to contribute to this list in the comments. I probably missed a lot, anyways. There’s a good chance I’ll re-release this piece down the line as a more comprehensive piece that includes your inputs (hence the ‘First Edition’ in the title). For now, have a chuckle at some of these gems and duds, and please play homage to the sport-lyric awesomeness that is Lil’ Wayne.
The Lil’ Wayne Division
“Weezy F Baby, for the team I rep daily / I come to the defense like Champ Bailey” – Lil’ Wayne, Shine On (by Baby)
“I’m like what it do, what it do / there’s a full court pressure, I’m just going for the two / if I’m open for the three, I’ma take it in a second / even if there’s one second, I’ma make it like it’s nothing” – Lil’ Wayne, Hustler Musik
“Now you know I play it, like a pro in the game / naw, better yet a veteran, a Hall of Fame” – Lil’ Wayne, Go DJ
“And I aint gettin Hitch / I’m gettin paid for, call me Money Mitch / ballin’ like Tony Gwynn” – Lil’ Wayne, I Took Her
“Then the style switch so quick / have you think the disc skipped / pimpin’ serious / make them bring it back like pass interference” – Lil’ Wayne, Diamonds & Girls
“I can play basketball with the moon, I got the whole world at my feet / playin’ touch football on Marijuana Street / or in a marijuana field, you are so beneath my cleats” – Lil’ Wayne, I Feel Like Dying
“N***a please, we on J-E-Ts / like Curtis Martin in white and green” – Lil’ Wayne, Kush
“Never talk to those that sit on the benches / I was in the game on 4th and inches” – Lil’ Wayne, Hard Body
“Still got Mami limp-oh / little bitty put his thang down like Mutumbo” – Lil’ Wayne, You Know What (by Avant)
“And when it’s cold, I turn into Wayne Gretzky” – Lil’ Wayne, I’m Raw
“And when it comes down to this recording / I must be LeBron James if he’s Jordan / no, I want rings for my performance / I’m more a Kobe Bryant of an artist” – Lil’ Wayne, Dough is What I Got
“You see me with my Marbury posture / I don’t play ball, I point-guard every dollar” – Lil’ Wayne (can’t find which song)
“I’m just headlinin’ the game / Won’t quit ‘till I’m A-Rod in the game” – Lil’ Wayne, Lightin’ Up My (La La La)
The Fabolous Divison
“I play them diamonds well like I get that jewellery on / they should call me Karat Jeter, or maybe Canary Bonds” – Fabolous, Diamonds on My Damn Chain
“They tried to put two nine’s on me, just like Gretzky / but my lawyer saw through it, just like wet T’s” – Fabolous, In My Hood
“In Houston I pass hoes in the Astros” – Fabolous, Throw Back
“I get the spirit in St. Louis, how could the God lose? I do back flips in the Ozzie Cardinals” – Fabolous, Throw Back
“I pitch game, you should see the change up I throw / aint gotta get ‘em a ring to get ‘em to swing” – Fabolous, Change Up
“And I’m a good player, I listen to the coach / she show me the playbook and said this is the approach / if you ever wanna score / ‘cuz some players rush they shot, and that’s why they’re never on the floor” – Fabolous, First Time
“They’ll throw it to you faster than Schilling and Clemens / but feelings aint the only thing that you can catch now” – Fabolous, Holla at Somebody Real
My Favorites
“I used to run bass like Juan Pierre / now I run bass high-hat with the snare” – Jay-Z, Deja Vu (by Beyonce)
“Bottom of the 9th and I really gotta score / if not I gotta move on to the next w**re” – J-Kwon, Tipsy
“When I get done it’s smooth sailing once I pull that ‘Lac out / next destination: I move forward like Jerry Stackhouse” – Ludacris, Woozy
“Life of a don, lights keep glowin, comin’ in the club with that fresh s*** on, with something crazy on my arm / and here’s another hit, Barry Bonds” – Kanye West, Barry Bonds
“You make me feel like I just hit the lotto / other girls, I give ‘em a shoulder colder than Chicago / but in your center I Heat it up in the Mourning like Alonzo” – Ludacris, Woozy
“When it comes to these women, dawg, aint no one f***in’ with me / they runnin’ back, you think I had a T.J. Duckett with me / that’s cause I throw it like Vick from the yard line / menage a trois, it’s safe to say I’m havin’ hard times” – Ludacris (f. Notorious B.I.G.), Living in Pain
“If you a thug or a rap artist, respect me like Pesci / and if rap was hockey, I be Gretzky” – Styles, N****s Done Started Something (by DMX)
“I got heart like John Starks” – Beastie Boys, Get it Together
“She ordered Kobe beef like Shaquille O’Neal / second I stepped in, the whole room gets still / I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal” – Kanye West, Back Like That Remix (by Ghostface Killah)
“I’ma Crip Walk to get Dre, and Blood Bounce back / Heat on the track, dribble rock like Wade and bounce like Shaq” – The Game, Bang
“You’re in a hurry, slow down, I don’t like how you’re actin’ / treat you like you from Milwaukee, send you Green Bay Packin’” – Nelly, Pimp Juice
The Not-So-Gangster, Not-So-Good Division
“We don’t think the same / I’m like Josh Howard, I need time out, but it’ll cost the game” – Joe Budden, Crazy Remix (by Gnarls Barkley)
“I leave ‘em shakin like the hands on Muhammad Ali / on the mic, I’m like the man Muhammad Ali” – Shawn Jay (of Field Mob), It’s Over
“You’re wicky wack with your ticky tack calls, didn’t touch you at all / I didn’t touch your hand, man, you know it’s all ball” – Beastie Boys, Hey F*** You
“You know how we do / we stay on your crew / like Mario Lemieux” – A Tribe Called Quest, Keep it Rollin’
“Focused on every word and line, like a young Cassius Clay in his prime” – Killer Mike, Flip Flop Rock (by Big Boi)
The “Full Song” Division
Halftime Show – Cam’ron (tonnes of sports references)
Right Thurr (NBA Live 2004 Remix) – Chingy
Flipside (NBA Live 2004 Remix) – Freeway
NBA Live 2004 – Twista (yes, that’s the song’s name)
Battlegrounds – T.I. (street basketball song)
Batter Up – Nelly (baseball song)
The Athlete-Cum-Rapper Division
Ron Artest (on his own record label, Tru Warrier Records) – decent, but crazy
Allen Iverson (aka Jewelz) – decent, but generic
Roy Jones Jr. – good on a Youngbloodz track (I Smoke, I Drink remix) but otherwise unimpressive
Master P – kind of the reverse, he had a try-out with the Raptors
Lil’ Romeo – son of Master P, rapper heading to USC as an 18th string point guard
Chris Webber – couldn’t find the song but allegedly he tried it
Shaquille O’Neal - Shaq Diesel, baby!
Kobe Bryant – appeared on a few mixtape tracks, debatable if it was actually him
Deion Sanders – ditto to Kobe
Tony Parker – raps in French, even had Fabolous on a track with a lame video
Cedric Ceballos – I have no proof, but I read about it before
Andre Rison – ditto to Ceballos
Gary Payton – ditto to Kobe and Neon Deion
Troy Hudson – weak, weak, weak
May 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Pharoahe Monch’s Official shits all over these
Pharoahe’s Official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Green
Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding
?Permitted? behind the back like makin em all fiend
From my intricate ways to shake ya whole team
Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Green
No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding
Permitted behind the back like makin em all fiend
For my intricate ways to break ya whole team
My style, make the whole crowd Se-au
Like number 55 on the Chargers
I promise thee I Dodge a nigga like Raul Mondesi
Somberly stay calm, fighting Means like Natrone
The bomb, like Hail Mary’s inflated wit napalm
RAP PLEASE US! Deliver scriptures similar to Jesus
That you couldn’t catch if you was Ivan Rodriguez
So don’t compete within the zone where the ? is
I’m on the phone in the luxury box like George Steinbrenner
The owner, makin you give your Diamond-back like Arizona
Winnin always Indian like Chief Nakahoma
Sock a nigga in his face, Pharoahe’s the Sporting Authority
Blacks attracted to my rap like ?games in sororities?
You already fucked up when you stepped up to bat
Strike (one) strike (two) strike (three), that’s that
[Chorus]
Pharoahe’s Official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Green
Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding
?Permitted? behind the back like makin em all fiend
For my intricate ways to break ya whole team
Official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Green
No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding
Permitted behind the back like makin em all fiend
For my intricate ways to shake ya whole team
Yo the realness stuck, females Blauch my Knob like Chuck
Dispense to standing in count commence to rebound like Buck Williams
Triple Crown threat to score, plus the bonus strange
Without the Rover, more range than Rey Ordonez
One of the MC’s flip my kind of grammar on the break
Three on one like Phi Slamma Jamma
Serve a slot, a curve-splitter-knuckleball-spitter-change
Every rhyme hid a bitter note, quote “Get a game”
Not Allen Iverson, forget crossin-over shake men
Similar to Troy, I bring the pain destined to Aik-man
Break men off, take men out, make me wanna slander
Prime Time, my rhyme defense beyond Deion Sanders
I walk the earth with my Rod in this Strick-land
Promise, people thought I was Thomas Hearns the way I Hit Man
Chorus
(Official)
Yeah yeah, come on come on
It’s Lee Stone, Pharoahe Monch for real
Wit the Official hip hop to kill
Know what’s the deal, come on check it
Yo yo yo
Pharoahe’s Official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Green
Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding
Then hid it behind the back like makin em all fiend
For my intricate way ta-ta-ta-ta yo yo
Official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Green
Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding
The minute behind the back like makin em all fiend
For my intircate way ta-ta-ta-ta
Yo, I stick around like hockey, now what the puck
Cooler than fuck, maneuver like Vancouver Canucks
In ya speaker, destroy your woofer, mids and tweeters
Not Wolverine but still I hold Claws like Shameeka
Water Boys get slaughtered automatic like Bobby Boucher
Push ya wig back like Marv Albert’s toupe
Blaze a Trail like Portland on a track that’ll amaze ya
Omnipotent on the D like Clyde Frazier
Slide, phase ya, glide get off the uhh
I’m commin wit the *scatting*
May 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Damn, those are some sick lines. Immediate download, for sure. I can’t believe he references Rey Ordonez, one of my favorite players ever. Nice one, Corey.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Quite frankly, the ommission of tracks off of the Shaq Diesel album is downright offensive. I’m not saying his work is a masterpiece, but he released 4 albums…a little sampling
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EFZkKV-CR5E
May 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Umm, he’s in there! The last section.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I’m illiterate and resign.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
A Bad Boy, just like Notorious B.I.G.
A Roc-a-Fella like Shawn Carter
with more game than Ron Harper
The bomb sparker rapper slash armed robber- “Deadly Combination”- Big L
And everytime I’m in a jam I always find a loophole,
I got a crime record longer than Manute Bol.- “M.V.P”- Big L
If you, block the cash, we lockin ass
I’ma put it in your chest like a Stockton pass- “Platinum Plus” Kool G Rap
May 14th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I take my glock and I point guard like Brevin Knight- “Put em in the Grave” Jedi Mind Tricks
This is no hoax, back to bench scrubs like Tremaine Fowlkes- “Sincerly Yours” Little Brother
Ask around and they tell you i’m good with the raw caine’ and skip college and handle the rock like Lebron James
Got my 40 from Cincinnati and it throw bullets like Boomer.
I’m like Shaq on the block, kobe with the rock, Wes with the shot, so i nickname my johnson Erving
Put the 100s in the bag, or i’m gonna put the eagle to your helmet and the 5th to your chest like Donovan McNabb
I keep 16 in the clip and i let em all go like the Lakers with Elden, Eddie and Nick
-all these gems are from “100 Bars and Runnin” The Game
May 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
“Queen’s Gambit” - GZA
She dated jolly green GIANTS, that, flew on JETS
An A-list actress, who was never walked off sets
She loved stuffed animals, especially BEARS
Was a role model, like a CARDINAL to our peers
A PATRIOTIC tomboy, like Mary Ellen from The Waltons
A former lifeguard, who had the skills of a DOLPHIN
When I met her, she was in drama school and wore BENGALS
Drove a BRONCO, and she was far from star spangled
Had basic skills, and worked part time in mills
Raised buffalo’s, cause she was behind them BILLS
Had a man who always roared like LION
A domestic violent cat, tackled the girl and kept her crying
Couldn’t care, she was losing her hair, from depression
She was in the air, and there was some room for interceptions
I told her to stay strong, not to be ashamed
You’re a “ten-i-see”, you just need to TITAN your game
Her ancestors were CHIEFS, who ran with running deer
On the sail with the SEAHAWKS, who battled the BUCCANEERS
The REDSKIN garments, was suede coat liners
Held rare coins, frequently sought from gold miners
They were hard working warriors, we call over timers
Shot plenty arrows at COWBOYS and 49ERS
Her interesting background, but quite unusual
A great force grip, but out of bounds for a musical
She told me to call her, if I came to town
I started TEXAN her, soon as my plane had touchdown
Holding my luggage, in the hand that revealed the bad scars
She pulled up at arrivals, driving the JAGUAR
Her BROWN skin was soft, her legs beautifully shaven
Her house was fly, sitting on the roof, was a RAVEN
As we entered, I heard laughter
She walked into a large living room, I went after her
There was two of her, girlfriends, playing chess like they were VIKINGS
Militant as PANTHERS, they’re resemblance was striking
Had on thongs, high heels, and belts that was garter
Energized like phones that just came off the CHARGER
I introduced myself to gain yardage
Cuz anything less then smooth, would of been straight up garbage
The shorter one met me, when I had a sky pager
Thought I rolled with robbers, STEELERS and panty RAIDERS
She took fruit from the orange bowl, it was in season
One of them said she loved the juice and kept squeezing
I knew that I was gonna get, wined and dined
It would of been a penalty, not to pass the scrimmage line
Now I laid back and relaxed, waiting for the kick-off
One removed the lip gloss, like she was bout to lick all
She caressed me, with fingertips soft as velvet
Dying for me to PACKER, as she stroked my helmet
And I was thinking these girls was SAINTS
But it was first and ten, and there was extra walls to paint
Before you know it, I had all three in a huddle
Buckin’ like a COLT, before I released them puddles
They spread EAGLES like wide receivers
As I RAM them in the endzone, and they became true believers
May 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
“Called up the homies and I’m askin y’all ‘Where’d you park? Are y’all playin basketball?’ Get me on the court and I’m trouble. Last week messed around and got a triple double. Freaking brothers everyway like M.J. I can’t believe, today was a good day.
…
Left my homie’s house paid. Picked up a girl been tryin to do since the 12th grade. It’s ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic - The Lakers beat the Supersonics.”
Ice Cube
May 14th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
How about this, from up-and-coming artist Scissors:
“My jumper stings your eye, I think you need Visine,
And you can’t buy a bucket ‘cuz my defense so mean,
My cross over fakes you silly so ballers call you Urkel,
And my game way flyer ‘cuz I read The On Deck Circle”
May 14th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
4 words “Macho Man Rap Album”
Lyric from the single “Be A Man”
-Hot diggity damn Hulk I’m glad you set it off (set if off)
Used to be hard Hulk now ya done turned soft
Doin’ telephone commercials I seen ya
Dancin’ in tights as a ballerina
I knew all along you had those tendencies
Cuz you’ve been runnin’ from Macho like I got a disease-
I’ve also heard Hulk has an album.
Rap or not, I bet he runs wild on the eardrums
May 15th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Nigga London, Japan and I’m straight off the block
Like a running back, get it man, I’m straight off the block
I can run it back nigga cause I’m straight with the Roc
dirt off your shoulder-Jay-z
May 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hey ladies in the place I’m callin’ out to ya
There never was a city kid truer and bluer
There’s more to me than you’ll ever know
And I’ve got more hits than Sadaharu Oh
- Beatie Boys “Hey Ladies”
The swift chancellor, flex, the white-gold tarantula
Track truck diesel, play the weed God, substatiala
Max mostly, undivided then slide it, it’s sickening
Guaranteed, made em jump like Rod Strickland
- Raekwon The Chef in Wu-Tang Clan’s “Triumph”
May 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Joe Budden - Pump it up Remix
ya’ll dudes will never make it you’re a Tyus Edney
i’m a standout like Yao Ming
i’m whats sparkin now
it’s like fallback Shaq
i’m startin now
boys poppin it toys pop and spit
i’m not from round these parts i’m Stojakovic
let me hear your man say “i’m the Jordan of rappin”
he’s gettin fatigued girlie his scorin is lackin
legacy is gettin ruined and you dont want that
so pretty much learn from him — don’t come back
May 15th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I could swear I’ve seen a mixtape claiming to be by DJ Drama & Carmelo Anthony.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I learned at Old Pine, see I’m the school yard hustler
I had my hardknocks now I’m an off the backboard buster
I could fake to the left penetrate like Mike
Or 360 in the air as Dominique might
I could pass like Magic
I could shoot like the Bird, after a Doctor J dunk
The courtside drunk said good lord
They shooting hoops
Yeah Yeah Yeah
They playing basketball
G LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE
SHOOTING HOOPS
May 15th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
“And with the third pick I made the earth sick/ MJ MJ fadeaway perfect” Jay Z - HOLA HOVITO
May 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Outkast - The Whole World
Glitter, Glisten, Gloss, Floss. I catch a beat runnin’ like Randy Moss.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
“Somebody tell Kelvin Cato, we want our money back!!”
May 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Look what you made me do, look what I made for you
Knew if I paid my dues, how will they pay you
When you first come in the game, they try to play you
Then you drop a couple of hits, look how they wave to you
From Marcy to Madison Square
To the only thing that matters in just a matter of years (yea)
As fate would have it, Jay’s status appears
to be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan, wearin the 4-5
It ain’t to play games witchu
It’s to aim at you, probably maim you
If I owe you I’m blowin you to smithereeens
Cocksucker take one for your team
And I need you to remember one thing (one thing)
I came, I saw, I conquered
From record sales, to sold out concerts
So muh’fucker if you want this encore
I need you to scream, ’til your lungs get sore
JAY-Z ENCORE
May 15th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
You niggas know where my heat stay at/I leave niggas MIA and I ain’t talkin where the Heat play at - Fabolous “Keeping It Gangsta”
And Fed’s tell ya hit a chick once and she runnin’ back like Fred Taylor - Fabolous “Keeping It Gangsta”
Once again, n**** know my style/Unless it’s on the cut so give me the mic and watch me slam it/
Hard like Shaquille, oh you better kneel - Scoob, Biggie Freestyle
May 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
“I get my hair cut correct like Anthony Mason..”
-Beastie Boys
May 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
You forgot one of the most popular songs ever…or of 2002.
“Stop pacin, time wastin
I gotta friend with a pole in the basement (What?)
I’m just KIDDin like Jason (Oh)” -Nelly, “Hot in Herre”
May 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
“And y’all scared I can tell,
But I’ma get Bucks like Milwaukee,
Cause like Sam I Cassell”
-Jadakiss
May 15th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
DJ Jazzy Jeff - “Practice”
Samples AI’s discussion of practice. Great track.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Bernie Kosar has a mix tape entitled “Who sharted in my oatmeal?”
Look it up.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
“You say it’s all about the money, well I can tell
Cuz that nigga makes Sam Cassell look like Denzel” -Masta Ace
“Sit back and learn, come now watch the birdie
Your styles are incomplete, same as Vinny Testaverde” -Phife, A Tribe Called Quest
May 15th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
When i first heard The Whole World from Outkast these lines made me do a double-take:
Player I grind, my focus is crime
Raw with the rhyme and I’m slick with da slime
My words a diamond dug out my mind
Spit ‘em, they polished, look how they shine
Glitter, glisten, gloss, floss
I catch a beat running like Randy Moss
May 15th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Whoever got props, get dropped coming to the hole/ Dikembe Mutombo of this rap sh*t/ And the jab is stiff, and it’s Zab quick, left hand will lean him like a little past six…
- Jay Z (”All I need”, The Blueprint)
May 15th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I was moving birds like a Oriole fitted
I’m Cal Ripken Jr, ***** let’s get it
JayZ, What They Gonna Do
SICK!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
“…Better yet you a Pervis Ellis you worthless fella, you aint no athlete you Shawn Bradley….”
Jay-Z Pump it up remix
May 15th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
“What if Ewing would have dunked instead of fading away? The Knicks would have been the Champs, wouldn’t got traded away”- Fredro Starr
May 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
I can’t believe there is no Cassidy…
“If I don’t sell and my plans should fail, man, it’ll get ugly like Sam Cassell”
and Joe Budden is amongst the best at throwing in sports references…
“ridin and totin’ things man, i got some ak’s that’s longer than greg oden’s wingspan,
some of these slugs is for wanna be thugs, they soft bitch made, call ‘em summer’s eve thugs,
son, that nigga, flow styles quicker, when dope boys is short i front ‘em the cash nicka,
starin’ at my dame cuz my hun’s ass bigger, you in the pursuit of happiness, bum ass nigga”
‘you just good at catchin bullets like randy moss’
‘the lennox lewis of rap, nobody thought that i could torture the mic’
“Ni&gas wanna rep, betta watch ya back
even little ni&gas is jumpin, they robert pack
“i aint scared to buck at dude
he a keith van horn ni&ga he was only tough in school”
“make the strip pipin’ hit, you either hire the cops, or we’ll be firin’ them shots, and you’ll be forced to leave jersey like you byron scott”
May 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Rap ruler, you could ask Buddha
Right jab like Zab Judah
-g. dep from “special delivery”
To the hood, parked crooked behind that chained fence,
And I’m going down behind my dogs, but I ain’t Vick
-the game from “big dreams”
also, kurupt and snoop just released an “la lakers theme” to the mixtapes
May 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
forgot one of the funniest
niggas lookin like larry holmes flabby and sick (look at de la soul!)
tryin to playa hate on my shit, you can eat a fat dick
-2pac from “againt all odds”
May 15th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
one more for wayne
Put A Motherfucker On Ice Like The Maple leafs
That’s A Hockey Team And I Ain’t On No Hockey Team
But I’m A Champion Where’s The Fucking rocky theme?
Damn, Rest In Peace Applo Creed
from upgrade u from drought 3
May 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The Beastie Boys drop sports lines all of the time:
from Unite (Hello Nasty):
Goin off the hook like Latrell Spreewell
I’ve got the ill technique so you know me be well
I got books of hooks and it looks like rain/
will someone from the Knicks please drive the lane?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
trunk turn and flips people think I teach gymnastics
I’m throwed like a fast ball from Greg Maddox
-paul wall “thinkin thoed”
May 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
@AB
On point, best line by far.
HOWEVER - it is Killer Mike on “The Whole World” by Outkast
May 15th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Lil Wayne- Feel Me
You know, just born to mack.
Call me Deion Sanders bring the corner back”
May 15th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I always liked that line in one of South Park Mexicans songs, “I shoot more shots than Sam Cassell”
May 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Sir Luscious is da the real deal, but even he gets ancy
Some honeys try to +Kill Bill+ beneath the underpants see
But patience is my virtue being too anxious just might hurt you
Like Mike Vick returning to the line of scrimmage too soon
May 15th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Sorry, that’s from ‘I Can’t Wait’ by Sleepy Brown (ft Outkast). Big Boi’s spittin’ that.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
rock handle like van exel.
jay-z
jake plummer reference in southside by the game i think
May 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
How about a Japanese baseball reference?
“I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh” - Beastie Boys, Hey Ladies
May 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
refuse to grow my hair like michael vick - ludacris, “in the club”
so runnin’ i will hit you like jeremiah trotter - lil wayne’s verse in ja rule’s “uh-oh”
and i got mad hits like i was rod carew - beastie boys, “sure shot”
I catch a beat running like Randy Moss - killer mike’s verse in outkast’s “the whole world”
Gotta play for the 7 call it Mike Vick / Dirty birds nigga we play wit dem falcons / Know some niggaz in the Decatur that pay for dem falcons - young jeezy, “gangsta music”
I’m in a whole other league, niggas never catch me / and I sport fly shit, I should win the ESPY - jay-z, “party life”
I’m from the gutter, grew up in public housing / On the same block with a shack like Yao Ming (…) I start writing 22 months and 20 weeks prior to Lebron shaking Adidas for Nikes / I’m right here, 6 years after Randy Moss caught his first touchdown for the Vikings - the game, “no more fun and games”
She been through the ball player from the Clippers, then came the pumps / All thinkin she number one where she was just a jumpoff - common, “drivin me wild”
Me and tha boy A.I. got more in common than just ballin and rhymin - Jay-Z, “super ugly”
not knowing the ways’ll get you capped like an NBA salary - talib kweli’s verse in black star’s “respiration”
May 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
If you haven’t heard, I’m Michael Magic and Bird / all rolled in one - cause none got more flows than Young - jay-z, “hola hovito”
May 15th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
More Wayne and Trick Daddy from the new Rick Ross album:
Song-Luxury Tax
“They said I couldn’t play football I was too small.
they say I couldn’t play basketball I wasn’t tall.
They say I couldn’t play baseball at all.
And now everyday of my life I ball.” - Lil Wayne
“It cost a ball dogg,
Especially when the players on your team,
Consider you as the ball hog.
You treat me like Shaq,
And you Kobe but I didn’t say you owe me nigga.
But act like you know me nigga.” - Trick Daddy
May 15th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Hopefully these are not repeats, searched through and could not find them!
You think you a killer but we gon just pay ‘em a visit
Put the potato in the barrel so nobody hear it
I keep a holster on my shoulder like I’m John Wayne
Shooting these n****s lights out like Lebron James
G-Unit, “Gangsta Lyrics”
Let you tell that man I’m falling,
Well somebody must’ve caught him,
Cause every fourth quarter, I like to Mike Jordan ‘em,
Number one albums, what I got like four of dem,
Jay Z in Kanye West’s “Never Let Me Down”
May 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
My fav as a Packers fan…..
Nigga just tryin’ to live
Like a Nigga suppose to live
If I still drink that malt liquor
I pour that beer
On the ground for niggas not around
I started out starvin’
Now they got me out here Brett Farve’n
Try’n to see if I still got it… (got it…)
I guess it’s like the right thing about it… (’bout it…)
Andre 3000’s lyrics from Dj Drama - The Art Of Storytellin Part 4
May 15th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
The illest ever!
Cut ya ears off and asked if you heard me/ Cuz your not worthy like James without the Laker jersey
C-Rayz Walz, “The Smackdown” (Apathy)
May 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Nelly, E.I. -
I’m fast (uh) double takes when you walk past me
Nasty, don’t be scared boo, go ahead and ask me
I drive fasty, call me Jeff Gordon
in a black SS wit a navagation
May 16th, 2008 at 12:38 am
“It’s A New Game And I’m The Coach Like Avery
Leave It To The Flow We Getting Doe Like A Bakery
I Don’t Really Want To But These Niggas Making Me
Put A Motherfucker On Ice Like The Maple leaves
That’s A Hockey Team And I Ain’t On No Hockey Team
But I’m A Champion Where’s The Fucking rocky theme?
Damn Rest In Peace Applo Creed” upgrade u by lil weezy
May 16th, 2008 at 1:33 am
grab a lost rebound like Bo Outlaw/ I’m so outlaw- Jay-Z
May 16th, 2008 at 1:35 am
“It’s gettin’ kinda tragic, and if you don’t believe me, then go ask Magic” - Coolio, ‘Too Hot’
“I’m like Gnarls Barkley meets Charles Barkley” - Kanye West, ‘The Glory’
“I wanna get you in the Georgia Dome, on the fifty yard line, while the Dirty Birds kick for three!” - Ludacris, ‘What’s Your Fantasy’
“Dane on a n**** like my name’s Zab Judah, the rap barricuda, 3XL kahuna!” - Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Uzi’
May 16th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I’m pretty sure that this is the only Mark Lemke reference there is:
“Atlanta needs a title, let’s call Mark Lemke, I’m an underground king like Pimp C, if I’m wrong, then convince me.”
-Mars Ill, “Too Strong to Change”
May 16th, 2008 at 11:21 am
“Where trends are set from ways to express the outfits
Friends get wet tryin’ to make ends connect
Avenues to check, boulevards to sweat
The smell of gunsmoke more common than cigarettes
WE GOT clicks for wreck
WE LIKE Pits for pets
WE GOT Giants and Jets, the Knicks, Yanks and Mets
WE LIKE much respect and sex extra wet
And High-Tech dialect you ain’t catch yet”
Rakim “New York (Ya Out There?)
May 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Shots of Patron, now she’s in the zone
I ain’t talking about the two-trhee
Mami in the zone like the homie 2-3
Jordan or James, makes no difference
Boo I’m ballin the same
I am the Mike Jordan of recording
- Show me what u got, Kingdom Come
May 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
#1 is right. Pharaoh Monch kills all of these just with the Chief Nakahoma drop.
“…and to top it off, Starks got ejected.” - Tribe Called Quest, 8 Million Stories
May 16th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Good stuff. Not a hip-hop fan by any stretch, my favorite music/sports piece is probably Phil Rizzuto’s call in Meat Loaf’s “Paradise tby he the Dashboard Light.”
Radio broadcast:
Ok here we go, we got a real pressure cooker going here, two down, nobody on, no score, bottom of the ninth,
there’s the wind-up, and there it is, a line shot up the middle, look at him go. This boy can really fly!
He’s rounding first and really turning it on now, he’s not letting up at all, he’s gonna try for second; the ball is bobbled out in center, and here comes the throw, and what a throw!
he’s gonna slide in head first, here he comes, he’s out! No, wait, safe - safe at second base, this kid really makes things happen out there.
Batter steps up to the plate heres the pitch - he’s going, and what a jump he’s got, he’s trying for third, heres the throw, it’s in the dirt - safe at third! Holy cow, stolen base!
He’s taking a pretty big lead out there, almost daring him to try and pick him off. The pitcher glances over, winds up, and it bunted, bunted down the third base line, the suicide squeeze is on!
here he comes, squeeze play, its gonna be close, heres the throw, heres the play at the plate, holy cow, I think he’s gonna make it!
May 17th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Here is a classic one:
“I’ll throw it down your throat like Barkley” -Chuck D, Public Enemy - Rebel without a Pause
May 17th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
“Analyze the strength of my game/like Lee Corso
Call me a lost soul/with a vest on my torso”
Hellbound - Eminem ft. J-Black and Masta Ace
May 19th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
One of the funnier ones
you niggaz fightin over airtime?
its my fault he pushed your album back farther than clyde drexlers hairline(The Game Soundscan)
May 19th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
i also just remembered the best hockey reference ive heard in a rap song
The Los Angeles King, no hockey mask
Cause when you try to hide your face
You get shot in tha ass! (The Game-Why you smell like dat)
i love alot of rappers but i have to say the game would probably win in this category he has dozens more im just too lazy to post em now.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:12 am
i’ll give you 5 shots when the 38 blow
leave a hole in your chest.. the size of a bagel
we can do it when you say so
wait till the Lakers on the road, shoot it out at the staples (The Game-240 bars)
I’m from Compton where niggaz used to bleed for barkley’s
Drive lo-lo’s and we ain’t need keys to start ‘em
Just a little information for your summer vacation
Bring your chain cuz every nigga in L.A. waitin
Mad cuz Detroit beat the shit out the Lakers
And they’ll kill you cuz they can’t find Gary Payton (The Game-200 bars)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 am
a couple of old school ones:
YOU BE ILLIN’ (Run DMC - 1986)
(To)day you won a ticket to see Doctor J
Front row seat (in free!) no pay
Radio in hand, snacks by feet
Game’s about to start, you kickin’ popcorn to the beat
You finally wake up, Doc’s gone to town
Round his back, through the hoop, then you scream “Touchdown!”
You be illin’
JUST A FRIENDLY GAME OF BASEBALL (Main Source - 1991)
[blam] Aww sh*t, another young brother hit
I better go over my man’s crib and get the pump
Cause to the cops, shootin brothers is like playin baseball
And they’re never in a slump
I guess when they shoot up a crew, it’s a grand slam
And when it’s one, it’s a home run
But I’ma be ready with a wild pitch
My finger got a bad twitch, plus I’m on the switch -
- side, and step up to the batter’s box
F*ck red and white, I got on Black Sox
But let him shoot a person from the White Sox
What’s the call? Foul ball!
Babe Ruth woulda made a good cop, but he didn’t
Instead he was a bigot, dig it
My life is valuable and I protect it like a gem
Instead of cops gettin me I’m goin out gettin them
And let em cough up blood like phlegm
It’s grim [blam blam] but dead is my antonym
And legally they can’t take a fall
Yo check it out it’s just a friendly game of baseball
R.B.I. — real bad injury
But don’t get happy you’re in jail for a century
Just as bad as bein shot in the groin
To see who’ll shoot ya, they’ll flip a coin
And watch him run for the stretch
But you don’t know the man is at home waitin to make the catch
So the outfielder guns you down
You’re out, off to the dugout, underground
I know a cop that’s savage, his pockets stay green like cabbage
Cause he has a good batting average
No questions, just pulls out the flamer
[blam] And his excuses get lamer
Once a brother tried to take a lead
But they shot him in his face sayin he was tryin to steal a base
And people watch the news for coverage on the game
Hmm, and got the nerve to complain
They need to get themselves a front row seat
Or sink a baseline for a beat
Cause television just ain’t designed for precision y’all
It’s just a friendly game of baseball
A kid caught on, but I don’t know where the brother went
The umpires are the government
I guess they took him out the game, and replace him
with a pinch-hitter, in the scam he was a quitter
So the cops usually torment, I mean tournament
Win em I was sayin
You can’t let the umpires, hear ya speak and battle
like the other kid you won’t be playin
Cause they’ll beat you til your @ss drop
A walking gun with a shell in his hand is their mascot
And when they walk around let it be known to step lightly
The bases are loaded
My man got out from three strikes
In the skull but the knife he was carrying was dull
Instead of innings, we have endings
What a fine way to win things
And hot-dog vendors have fun
Sellin you the cat rat and dog on a bun
And when you ask what is all of this called?
It’s just a friendly game of baseball
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
B-Ball’s Best Kept Secret
This was the album that featured Gary Payton, Cedric Ceballos, and others.
Here is Webber’s album: C. Webb - 2 Much Drama (the single was “Gangsta! Gangsta!” ft. Kurupt)
I’m don’t know if Kobe Bryant’s album ever came out, but he definitely recorded a song with Tyra Banks called K.O.B.E. I’m pretty sure there was a video and it was an (unplayed) radio single. Here is a YouTube video of him performing it during NBA All-Star Weekend: Kobe Bryant ft. Tyra Banks - K.O.B.E. Also: Brian McKnight ft. Kobe Bryant - Hold Me (Trackmasters Remix)