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Section 1:

Basketball Music Lyrics and Rap

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Beastie Boys: Tough Guy

Curtis Blow: Basketball

B Real, Coolio, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, Method Man: Hit' em High (The Monstar's Anthem)

Cheech and Chong f / Tyrone Shoelaces: Basketball Jones

Coolio: All The Way Live Now

Dlr Band: Slam Dunk

Jimmy Fallon: (I Can't Play) Basketball

5ive: Slam Dunk Da Funk

The Flys: The Gods of Basketball

Forty-Two: Funky White Guy

G. Love and Special Sauce: Shooting Hoops

Imajin:  I Don't Wanna Play Basketball

Jin: NBA

Kriminal: Basketball

Lil' Bow Wow f / Fabolous, Fundisha and Jermaine Duprie: Basketball

Lil' Bow Wow: Take Ya Home

Lincoln: Basketball

Master P: Basketball

Shaquille O'Neal f / Trigga: Fly Like An Eagle

Shaquille O'Neal f / Def Jef: I Know I Got, Skillz

Presidents of the United States: Magic Johnson Dream

Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Magic Johnson

R.O.C.: NBA 2k2

Sesame Street: Five

69 Boyz: Hoop In Yo Face

Skee-Lo: I Wish

Snoop Dogg: Hoop Dreams (He Got Game)

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Section 2:

Music Lyrics and Rap Related to basketball

Many singers and rappers mention basketball related themes in their songs.

It is pointless and time-consuming to reproduce the full lyrics due to space restrictions. But here are the relevant basketball excerpts from an assorted selection of such songs. In very limited number of cases, the full text was reproduced for its utility

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Davis Alana: Turtle

Alkaholiks: Hip Hop Drunkies

Andy: Memories

Apollo 440: Raw Power

Arrogant Worms: Me Like Hockey

Artificial Joy Club: Sick and Beautiful

Bacon Brothers: Guess Again

B.G.: Rollin' Raw

Barenaked Ladies: Ed's Uncle Elwyn

Beanie Siegel f / Jay-Z: Raw and Uncut

Bif Naked: My Bike

Big Punisher f / Tommy Sunshine: Mamma

Blade: Come On

Blaque: Can't Trust Myself

The Boyz: I Want You Back

Kobe Bryant f / Tyra Banks : K.O.B.E.

Busta Rhymes: The Heist

Cam'Ron: Rockin' And Rollin'

Aaron Carter: Never Too Young, Never Too Old

Cheech and Chong: Earache My Eye

Paula Cole: Bethlehem

Corey f / Lil Romeo: Hush Little Lady

Corky and the Juice Pigs: Basketball Ass

Corky and the Juicy Pigs: Pandas

Billy Ray Cyrus: Busy Man

D-12 f / Dina Rea: Pimp Like Me

Bern Dan: No Missing Link

Dave Holister: Can't Stay

Dead Mikmen: Now Everybody's Me

Dead Prez: Score

Deftones: Wicked

Dog Eat Dog: Sore Loser

Drag On f / P Killer Trackz: Click Click Clack

Dynamite Hack: Today Is A Good Day

Dynamite Hack: Boyz N The Hood

E-40 f / Suga T: Lace Me Up

The Fugees: Living Like There Ain't Tomorrow

Fun Loving Criminals: Bear Hug

House of Pain: Punch Drunk

House of Pain: Work Is Bond

House of Pain: X-Files

I Mother Earth: Basketball

Janis Ian: Seventeen

Michael Jackson: Superfly Sister

Michael Jackson f / Shaquille O'Neal: 2Bad

Jagged Edge: Head of Household

Jay-Z: Anything

Jay-Z: H to the Izzo

Jay-Z f / Sean Paul: What They Gonna Do

Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince: Summertime

Elton John: Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters Part II

John Q. Public: Preacher's Kid

Tobey Keith: Honky Tonk U

King's X: Complain

Krs-One: Represent the Real Hip Hop

Korn: Ear Ache My Eye

Kottenmouth Kings: Frontline

Lil' Flip: I Shoulda Listened

Lil Romeo: My Baby

Lil Romeo: 2 Way

LL Cool Jay: Around The Way Girl

Lyte Funkie Ones: Summer Girls

Mario: Put Me On

Marvelous 3: #27

Ian Mathews: Shake It

Master P f / Afficial: Roll How We Roll

John Mellencamp: Rooty Toot Toot

Method Man and Redman: Y.O.U.

Mr T Experience: I Just Wanna Do It With You

Nas: Project Window

Nelly: Country Grammar

Nelly: Greed, Hate, Envy

Nelly: Say Now

New Power Generation (NPG): Cherry Cherry

Nuts Can Surf: Cysco

Shaquille O'Neal: Fiend -98

Shaquille O'Neal: 48 @ The Buzzer

Shaquille O'Neal: Pool Jam

Shaquille O'Neal: You Can't Stop The Reign

Shaquille O' Neal f / Peter Gunz: It Was All A Dream

Shaquille O' Neal f / Phife Dawg: Where Ya At

Outkast: D.E.E.P.

Petey Pablo: Raise Up

Pharoahe Monche: Queens

Piglets: Johnny Reggae

Poetic Ammo: Approximate Detonation

Prefab Sprout: I Never Play Basketball Now

Prince: Style

Princess Superstar: CEO

Project Wize: Erica

Public Enemy: I Stand Accused

Redman f / Lady Luck: Come And Get It

Romanovsky and Phillips: Outfield Blues

Roots f / Dice Raw: Ain't Saying Nothin New

Roots f / Dice Raw and Beanie Siegel: Adrenaline!

Adam Sandler: Moyda

Adam Sandler: Red Hooded Sweatshirt

Adam Sandler: 7 Foot Man

Saw Doctors: All The Way From Tuam

702: Steelo

Sesame Street: Four

Sesame Street: Oscar's 'B' Sandwich

Sesame Street: Tall Short Texan

Shaggy: Why Me Lord

Small Fred: Annie

Will Smith: "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" Theme Song

Will Smith: Gettin' Jiggy Wit It

Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff: Boom! Shake the Room

Snoop Doggy Dog: Tear 'Em Off, Me And My Doggz

Fredro Starr: What If

Ray Stevens: The Streak

Sticky Fingaz: What If I was White

Sugarhill Band: Rappers Delight

SWV f / Snoop Doggy Dog: Gettin' Funky

Taryn and Arianne: Dream

Ali Tatyana: Dreamin'

Third Eye Blond: An Ode To Maybe

311: Jackolantern's Weather

Throwing Muses: Backroad

Too $hort: Cusswords

Too $hort f / Ant Banks MC Breed: Givin Up The Funk

Toucher: Y.M.C.A.

A Tribe Called Quest: 8 Million Stories 

A Tribe Called Quest: Hot 4U

Tupac Shakur f / Ray Tyson: A Day In The Life

The Vandals: My First Xmas, As A Woman

Wu Tang Clan: For Heaven's Sake

Judd Wynonna: Girls With Guitars

WWF: Wreck (Mankind Theme)

Xzibit: Alkaholic

Young MC: Principal's Office

Young Stef f / Lil' Bow Wow: Can I Holla

Youngstown: It's Not What You Think

Roy Zimmerman: Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore

ZZ Top: Woke Up With Wood

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Some lyrics may be considered offensive to certain people or

possibly may not be appropriate for certain age groups.

This would be the same for any form of artistic expression actually.

We take no position pro or con on this matter as this is strictly

a matter of taste or preference or tolerance level.

For us as long as the lyrics have a relation with basketball, they're fine with us.

Accordingly, we just reproduce them in as much authenticity as possible

leaving to the reader the judgment of whether to continue

browsing the contents any further or not

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