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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

Davis Alana

Turtle

Little boy wishes he wasn't small
He'd give his turtle to be six feet tall
He's got photos of Shaq and Ewing up on his wall
And he'd try a jump shot but he's afraid he'll fall down
 

Alkaholics

Hip Hop Drunkies

(Tash)

See this the type of shit niggaz don't try at home
I come funkin up the spot like Michaal Jordan's cologne
With the megadrunken, style to keep the crowd pumpin
Niggaz lookin at me like, 'Tash is up to somethin'
 

Andy

Memories

Don't be stupid and think i said mole

because hoe they're easier to handle

like a baseball, basketball even a volleyball

so what is this detention hall

no it's juvenal hall

so don't even think yo going to the mall.
 

Apollo 440

Raw Power

Slam dunking state of mind, every time
Throwing you a life-line, life-line
We'll leave the group shell-shocked from the bottom
To the very tip top, hip hop don't stop, go!
 

Arrogant Worms

Me Like Hockey

Favourite night is Saturday night
'Cause me can watch hockey fights
Me Like Hockey!
Me not like pro basketball
'Cause me short and they all tall
Baseball slow like Forrest Gump
'Cept when Robby spits on ump
Wrestlemania not so great
Me like to see Hulk Hogan skate
TV soccer not so hot
You play bad then you get shot
Me Like Hockey!
 

Artificial Joy Club

Sick and Beautiful

Bounce me hard and dunk me
I'm just your basketball
Lay me up then heave-ho
You're sick and beautiful
 

B.G.

Rollin' Raw

I'm gettin' my ball on like I'm in the NBA
Hustle for a mil I do dat everyday
Me and my whole click we just shinnin'
House's and fancy car's all Big Tymers just buyin'
Lyin' to these broads because we got it like that
Black on black army truck we ridin' like that
 

Bacon Brothers

Guess Again

Oh I must've been dreamin
Dreamin I was much more of a man
Well you know that I am six foot three
But did you know that I'm part Cherokee
Oh I'm a major hunk
Have you ever seen me dunk
 

Barenaked Ladies

Ed's Uncle Elwyn

My Uncle Elwyn is tall
My Uncle Elwyn is small
My Elwyn plays mean basketball
 

Beany Siegel

featuring Jay-Z

[Jay-Z]
Keep it raw & uncut for all the bitches and hoes
The first time you sniff it
It might hurt your nose

[Beanie]
But only the strong survive and thas how life goes
I know I'm outta control
Me and Jay same track you gotta be kiddin
Its like that nigga Jordan i'm Scottie Pippen
Its like Magic Worthy
Parish Bird and Stockton Malone shit
Who gonna stop and hold this game like Doc and Moses
Full court press and the rock control this

Bif Naked

My Bike

The last time I fell in love -

She had red, red hair and a ring in her lip
She called me "jellybean"

While playing basketball
It was so divine... but never like this

And you are my entity,

you are my dream
yeah you're my dream....
 

Big Punisher

featuring Tony Sunshine

Mamma

Somebody save me, I think I just killed somebody baby
Shoulda chilled but money was really tryin to play me
Couldn't hold it no more so I showed him the four
Duke was dissin my girl like she was hoein on tour
And knowin I'm raw, money tried to play fly
"I said whassup to the bitch; why she couldn't say hi?"
That ain't right! I had to put him in his place
Remember them hollows I bought for three bottles?
I put 'em in his face
I didn't have to disgrace myself, hatin myself
"Ahora a tu!" Blam Blam, brace yo'self

That's the law - the streets are like basketball
but sometimes you shoot,

sometimes you pass it off
Can't always take a shot,

make one mistake you upstate for what?

Blade

Come On

New shit, gold I'm throwin' rocks on the tooth
You see me when I ball and it's not with hoops
And while you shop for boots I shop for coupes
 

Blaque

Can't Trust Myself

I didn't really wanna be on your team
I just wanna wear the uniform
that was enough for me
But somehow you stole the ball from my court
And you voiced a game one on one
that I didn't wanna play

I never had a guy to play the whole game
They always seem to quit at halftime
leave the rest to me
I never thought love should be that way
If you're down you should be down
until the buzzer rings
 

The Boyz

I Want You Back

Now me and my boyz

The brand new rampshakers
Jackson five did it

Like Shaq with the Lakers
 

Kobe Bryant

featuring Tyra Banks

K.O.B.E.

[Tyra]
Kobe, how many girls have said, "I love you?"
Not like 'I love you Kobe!' like a fan
But like, for real, like, baby, marry me
I love you

[Kobe]
You're sweet once again (Once again)
Flawless (Flawless)
C'mon Right Uh, uh huh
Yo, yo, it's like this
-----

[Tyra Banks]
K-O-B-E,  I L-O-V-E you
I believe you are very fine
If you give me one chance, I promise to love you
And be with you forever more

[Kobe]
Check this out though
Real love last, now do you love me or my cash?
My name, fame, drop top, Benz or the wooden dash?
You know my stash, from Georgie cash
Platinum, US express, no paper cash
Spend it all now, or kiss to be rich cash
Hash, stocks and bonds, laugh when they crash
Are you the type that brag the jewels you flash

Busta Rhymes

The Heist

[Ghostface Killah]
It was the best heist since ice
Precise rituals
Skated outta Jacob's wit the Fruit

Loop jewels
Holdin a navy blue uzi
Krush Groovin waves off the atlas
Coolin, that's how we make movies
Basketball gun brawlers, bounce
Black down 'bill-a-head banks,

Malibu colorful shanks
That's the way we live, Staten Island kid
 

Cam'Ron

Rockin' And Rollin'

Are you hip to dive, how we dip to the drive?
1/2 of my game, yo that shit be a lie
But it's true about Duke, from the hoop to the five
And I'm right behind ya in a coupe that we drive

Aaron Carter

Never Too Young, Never Too Old

I'm _ radio
Kiss me in the studio
That's my life bro
It's in my blood
Hey, it ain't my fault
You wanna step to me
We can take it to the ashfault
Shoot some hoops
Slam dunk the funk
Battle on the rollerblades
You're callin' me a punk
 

Cheech and Chong

Earache My Eye

My mama's talkin' to me
She tells me how to live,
But I don't listen to her
'Cause my head is like a sieve.

My daddy he disowned me
'Cause I wear my sisters clothes,
He caught me in the bathroom
With a pair of pantyhose.

The basketball coach
Done kicked me off the team
For wearing hi-heel sneakers
And acting like a queen.

Paula Cole

Bethlehem

Everybody's talking about Becky's bust
The boys on the basketball team just fuck
The same ten girls, who don't know who they are
They're looking for some comfort in the back of a car
The six-packs of beer, the locker room jeers
I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here
 

Still I'm tired of standing still
Tired of living - still,
Everyday I dream of leaving
Red brick schoolhouse, dead end dirt roads, daffodils
No star above my Bethlehem

I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock
I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here
Bethlehem

Corey

featuring Lil Romeo

Hush Little Lady

So ya know how I do when you see me in school

See I can get you cause you remind me of a boy I knew

Basketball is my favorite sport,

Take mad shoots when I rule the court

Baby I'm in a park right outside

Corky and the Juice Pigs

Basketball Ass

Up and down the street he bounces
Waiting for someone to pass
He's the guy with a special problem
He's got a basketball ass
Basketball, basketball
Basketball ass
Basketball, basketball
Basketball ass.
 

Corky and the Juicy Pigs

Pandas

Why should we save them?
What good do they do?
Have you ever seen a panda
Do something good for you?
They can't wear t-shirts,
They can't bounce basketballs
They can't walk tightropes
Over Niagara Falls

Die, they must die
The pandas must die
Die, they must die
The pandas must die

You fat bastard!
 

Billy Ray Cyrus

Busy Man

(full text)

There's a little boy out in the driveway
His basketball in hand
Saying Daddy could we play a little one on one
You pat him on the back and say not now son
I'm a busy man

His sister's out on the sidewalk
Setting up a lemonade stand
Hey Daddy don't you want to buy a glass from me
You say maybe later, can't you see I'm a busy man

(Chorus)

You got to go, got to run
Hit it hard and get it done
Everyone can see you're going far
You got responsibilities
A crazy schedule that you keep
And when you say that time's a-wasting
You don't know how right you are
Busy man

There's a woman in the bedroom crying
Saying I thought we had plans
You say honey I'm sorry I'll make it up
When the job slows down and I'm not such
A busy man

(Chorus)

Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work"

There's a call one day from the office
They need you down in Birmingham
You say no way, the weekend's mine
I got plans with the kids and a date with my wife
I'm a busy man

You got to go, got to run
Take a break and have some fun
Those that love you most
Say you've come far
Got some new priorities
In that schedule that you keep
And when you say that time's a-wasting
Now you know how right you are
Busy man
 

D-12

featuring Dina Rea

Pimp Like Me

Hoes recognize, and niggaz do too
Cause they realize that niggaz do shoot
Don't like a chick that act too cute
Bitch hold my gat down when I shoot hoops 
 

Bern Dan

No Missing Link

Aliens came and fucked the monkey, they fucked the monkey
How else explain fax machines
How else explain computer enhancement
How else explain fiber optics
How else explain Mozart
We do not belong here, this planet was a terrarium
Intergalactic broken home, have to go to outer space
And one day find our daddy-
How else explain pay at the pump
How else explain limited access freeways
How else explain digital remastering
Plastic flowers, linoleum, beefalo
Michael Jordan
Religion, astronomy, astrology
That looks to the stars
We do not belong here
This planet was a terrarium
Seven billion bastards
Screaming for our daddy
Aliens came and fucked the monkey, they fucked the monkey
 

Dave Holister:

Can't Stay

But you let your mind play games on you
Whenever I'm not around
Ya think that I don't know
That you're passin' time with the guy next door
I gave you all that I had
You didn't love me one ounce
So like a basketball
I gotta bounce

Dead Milkmen

Now Everybody's Me

They had to lower all the basketball nets
'Cause everybody's only 5 foot 3
And everybody likes to dress like a monkey
'Cause now everybody's me
 

Dead Prez

Score

Know what I'm sayin
Life is like a game of basketball
They just want niggas to run jump and shoot

The game of life is a struggle to survive
We live to win cause if we lose than we die

......

Chorus
Score, this ain't no game this is war
Score, this ain't no game this is war

(talking in background)
Get your fucking heads in the game, please!
This season don't mean nothin' if we lose this!

Deftones

Wicked

And you know that I'm from the wicked crew, you act like you knew
But I got everybody jumping through the hoops
---

Larry Parker just got 2 million, Oh what a fucking feeling
That nigger done past me the pill, and I slam dunk it like Shaquille O'Neal
Wicked,  wreckin'
 

Dog Eat Dog

Sore Loser

(full text)

You tried out for the high school team
So you would have some childhood dreams
That you and your father could share
Football coach said you're too small
Don't even think of basketball
You knew you were destined to fail
Went to the track meet
Wanna be an athlete (sore loser)
Get back in your seat they said
Go to the dugout
Three strikes you struck out (sore loser)
And home runs flew over your head
Looking down on rock 'n' roll
And you dreamed of scoring goals
You're saving those dreams for your bed
Thought it was cool to be a jock
You ended up a rent-a-cop
A dozen donuts in your hand
You're a loser
A sore loser
Now it seems the tables turned
The game of life you should have learned
So try using some of your brains
All your high school friends are stars
Driving really fancy cars
The irony drives you insane

Drag On

Featuring P Killer Trackz

Click Click Clack

Yo you never heard Drag release shit on wax
Cuz this kid do more than crack backs and pump crack
I'm young but I've been stop playin with crayons
I'ma be around for eons put niggas where the bums pee on
This ain't basketball three on three
It's one ready to leave and the other fifteen comin rapidly
They still couldn't find a book of matches to match me
Buildings is still burnin down still couldn't catch me
I'm real flashy, I cop the Benz and crash it on the same day
And be back on the subway

Dynamite Hack

Boyz N the Hood

Cruisin' down the street in my 6-fo'
Jockin' the bitches, slappin' the hoe's
I went to the park to get the scoop
Knuckle-heads out there cold shootin' some hoop
A car pulls up, who can it be?
The fresh El Camino rollin Kilo G
He rolls down the window and he starts to say
It's all about makin' that G.T.A.

Dynamite Hack

Today Is A Good Day

Called up the homeys
and I'm askin' y'all,
Which park are y'all
playin' basketball?
Get me on the court
and I'm trouble,
Last week, fucked around
and got a triple double,
Freakin' niggas every which way,
just like M.J.,
I can't believe today was a good day.

Creep to the pad
and hit the showers,
I didn't even even get no static
from the cowards,
'Cause just yesterday
them fools tried to blast me,
they saw the police,
and they rolled right past me.
.......

Left my homey's house payed,
Picked up a girl
been tryin' to do
since the twelfth grade,
It's ironic,
I had the brew,
she had the chronic,
The Rockets
beat the Supersonics.
Woke her up around one,
She didn't hesitate
to me the top gun.
Drove her to the pad
and I'm coastin'
Took fifth of the potion,
hit the three-wheel motion.
Drunk as Hell,
but no throwin' up,
Halfway home,
and my pager's still blowin' up,
Today I didn't even
have to use my AK,
I gotta say it was a good day
 

E-40

featuring Suga T

Lace Me Up

Okay; dem some cool clues
I ain't gon' lie, you laced my tennis shoes
I'ma go back and tell all my dudes
Y'alls playin football with basketball rules
 

The Fugees

Living Like There Ain't No Tomorrow

She said that she did it with some girl named Lisa
I said what's the boot yo, she pulled the camcorder
Bust it, so what's the charge, you called me a womanizer?
I tried to say sorry she said say sorry for Taquisha.
 

Chairs come flying my way like balls at basketball practice.
Call the priest cause she's turning to the exorcist
She kicked me out cause she was paying for the apartment
That's real, you got no girl, if you got no money to spend

Fun Lovng Criminlas

Bear Hug

If you can't live the lie, let it die
and if you can't live a life full of strife
just say oops! And jump through hoops,
and get to the end of the line.
 

House of Pain

Punch Drunk

I'll make ya hot and spicy like some wavos rancheros
Then hit the Knicks game with my man Don Terros
And if the Knicks are winnin'
Then Spike Lee's grinnin'
 

House of Pain

Work Is Bond

I got a loop on my crate and I'm dunkin
The way I rhyme on the break gets all the brothers buggin
You know I got the funky sound
Your still up in the air cause last year I said Jump Around
I'm rollin thick so I know you see me
I got mad little white kids wishin they could be me
So don't step up cause I'm a' come out blastin
Your just a quickie
Punk I'm Everlastin

House of Pain

X-Files

Put grooves in the mix
I make moves like the Knicks
And take ya straight up the lane
I block out the frame
And then I freeze it, believe it
 

I Mother Earth

Basketball

There ain't no waterfalls
There ain't no grassy grass here
Just a casual nod
And basketball
I don't mind
Cause I'm still alive
All thoughts and feelings
Under my ceiling
This city
Hangs a sensual tension
This city
Screams for more affection

Janis Ian

Seventeen

To those of us who know the pain
Of valentines that never came,
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball.
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
And dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me.
 

We all play the game and when we dare
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say, come dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
 

At seventeen.

Michael Jackson

Superfly Sister

He wanna turn the key
Hurt the sheets
Move to the left
He wanna hot scrub
Hot love
Making it wet

He wanna give hot jump shot
Move to the left
He wanna time bar
Slam dunk ha ha ha

Hoo!  Hee!  Keep it goin'
Party now  Hee! Hee!

Michael Jackson

featuring Shaquille O'Neal

2Bad

Shaq:

some nights are like a dream
I'm really in the theater when MJ's on my team
theme
reality brings forth realism
it's the man of steel
organism Twism
I'm full of trisim
take charge like Miller
9-5 Shaq represent with the thriller
grab my crotch, twist my knees, and I'm through
I'm bad, Mike's bad, who are you?

Chorus: (Michael Jackson)
too bad too bad about it
why don't you scream and shout it  

Jagged Edge

Head of Household

It's like Jordan and Pippen
Shaq and Kobe, Ike and Tina
No I ain't tryna beat you baby
It's like Sonny and Cher
Donnie and Marie girl
I just want you to know
Behind every good man is a woman

We gotta be a team, just me and you girl
Like Jerry and Joe going for the Super Bowl
We tryna win girl
In order to win, there's gotta be a leader
And that's me, but I don't mind sharing the light with you

Baby I'm the head of this household
My love for you is worth it's weight in gold
A player on a team has to play their role
Everything I do is all for you

Jay-Z

Anything

My brother from anotha pop, minus one shot
We Neno and G-Money man, we all we got
From the stoop to the big dudes, stoppin' us from playin' hoops
And us gettin' mad, throwin' rocks off the roof

Jay-Z

H To the Izzo

I was raised in the pro-jects roaches and rats
Smokers out back sellin' they momma's sofa
Lookouts on the corner, focused on the Ave.
Ladies in the window focused on the kinfolk
Me under a lamp post, why I got my hand close?
Crack's in my arm, watchin the long arm of the law
So you know I seen it all before
I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiend's weight
The try and the fail, the two things I hate
Succeed in this rap game the two things that's great
 

H to the izz O, V to the izz A
What else can I say about dude I gets busy

H to the izz O, V to the izz A
Fa shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in V-A
H to the izz O, V to the izz A
That's the anthem get ya damn hands up
H to the izz O, V to the izz A
Not guilty y'all got to feel me
H to the izz O, V to the izz A
That's the anthem get ya damn hands up

Jay-Z

featuring Sean Paul

What They Gonna Do

I am the youth spirit, I am y'all with the flow
Troubled man, dare I say, I am Mar with the flow
I come up hard but I evolve with the flow
Crossover, slam dunk, Rucker Park with the flow
 

Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince

Summertime

(Fresh Prince)
It's late in the day and I ain't been on the court yet
Hustle to the mall to get me a short set
Yeah I got on sneaks but I need a new pair
Cause basketball courts in the summer got girls there
 

Elton John

Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters Part II

(full text)

I used to think that New York City
Fell from grace with God
And innocence abroad
Waged a war for the underdog
When the snow falls
And Central Park looks like a Christmas card
I just looked beyond the bagman
And the madness that makes this city hard

I heard a basketball
Somewhere out beyond a chain link fence
Inner city prisoners
Argue for the right of self-defense
But there's a fast break
And every work of art wakes something in the soul
Just focus on the brush strokes
And the bouquets that the dancers hold

Spanish Harlem still sounds good to me
Yeah Mona Lisa's getting older
Standing in the shadow of Miss Liberty
While I walk along the west side
Down through Little Italy
Searching for the city that
That took away the kid in me

John Q. Public

Preacher's Kid

I'm staring through glass
Stained by insecurities and hurt
I'm wondering, and I've got lots of questions
But no answers why
Daddy is the pastor of this church
Seems to be his only out
Besides basketball on the TV
Basketball on the TV
 

Toby Keith

Honky Tonk U

I've played every beer joint tavern
From New York City out to Pasadena
Every corn dog fair and rodeo
And sold out every basketball arena

King's X

Complain

I complain
Complain so much easier
Black man singing Mississippi blues
Africa starves, a little baby drools
I'm trying to figure out all the basketball rules

Krs-One

Represent  The Real Hip Hop

To corny niggaz y'all get ate, my shit'll make you faint
So much platinum on my walls that I can hardly see the fuckin paint
You think it ain't before a year and stopped recordin
Now look we comin back and runnin shit like fuckin Michael Jordan

Kottonmouth Kings

Frontline

Now I take ten steps, turn and break out the hoop
Grip the zag tightly cuz I'm about to shoot
Wind in my ear, the advisory I can see
Voices whisper clear, smoke another ST
So I do, I fire it up, round one round two, now I'm lifted up
Three, four can I stand and handle one more?
I'm in the sky, am I knockin' on heavens door?
Now I loaded up the clip and I pulled it through
And seen the little black hole that said I missed you
I can feel the expansion in my chest
I let go I'm stress free, there's no worries left
On this summer my mind travels as my eyes gloss
I reminisce about the days I hung with Big Hoss
And even though he's locked down man he still knows
That Saint Dog's got a love for his big bro
I gotta go

---
I got 2 skateboards, I eat hash and spam
My uncle, my pops, they got it easy man
I got a girl that's down, I call her tikki doll
I like to get high and play dunk ball
I like to get high, ain't a punk y'all
Kottonmouth's in the house, so pack ya bowls
We ain't nothin' but some big west coast juggalos!

Korn
Ear Ache My Eye

My Momma talk to me,
Try to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her,
'cos my head is like a sieve

My daddy, he disowned me,
'cos I wear my sisters clothes
He caught me in the bathroom,
with a pair of pantyhose

My basketball coach,
he just kick me off the team
For wearing high heels sneakers,
and acting like a queen

Gonna tie my pecker to a tree to a tree
Gonna tie my pecker to a tree to a tree
Gonna tie his pecker to a tree
 

Lil' Flip

I Shoulda Listened

I shoulda listened, when ya said boy go and get a job
I shoulda listened, cause you gotta sell dope or rob
I shoulda listened, when you told me I need to go to college
but right now I'm tryin to money in my wallet
I shoulda listened, when you said boy make good grades
but instead I was worryin about dem new j's
I shoulda listened, when you said boy don't get no tattoos
now it's 2 years later and now I got 22
I shoulda listened, when you said keep playin basketball
but I was makin mo money standin in the hall

 
Lil Romeo

My Baby

They call me lil P, I represent the CP3
Calliyo ya heard me, straight from New Orleans
Gotta Uncle named Silkk and a Uncle named C
I been dribbling the ball since the age of 3
I got game like Koby, dunk it like Poppa P
Once I'm in the zone ain't no stoppin' me
You can jumpa baby humma girls be jockin' me
Humilaouet No Limit yet from head to feet
 

Lil Romeo

2 Way

I got bankrolls of peso
So my love won’t cost a thing like J-Lo
I’m a baller, ma, I don’t play with Play dough
You seen "Cribs" so that’s how we roll

You got mail, give it to the haters
Y’all get fame, we get paper
Rome be Kobe, I be Shaq
Come back and get double-platinum back to back
Grown folks watchin’, girls be jockin’
Ooh-wee, the tank ain’t stoppin’
Come off the bench and win it, that’s just in me
Drop the top, nothin’ less than a Bentley
Don’t twist the game, we reversed it back
P., Rome and Silkk, now how you love that

It takes two to make your thing go right
It-it takes two to make it out of sight....
 

LL Cool J:

Around the Way Girl

Perm in your hair or even a curly weave
With that New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve
I tell you come here
You say meet me half  way
Cause brothers been popping that game all day
Around the way you're like a neighborhood jewel
All the home boys sweat you so you're crazy cool
Wear your gold in the summer with your biking shorts
While you watching all the brothers on the basketball court
 

Lyte Funkie Ones

Summer Girls

Hip Hop momma laid spick & span
Met you one summer and it all began
You're the best girl that I ever did see
The Great Larry Bird Jersey 33
 

Mario

(from Like Mike soundtrack)

Put Me On

Yesterday, I was playin  ball around my way
when I saw you with a girl, that I never seen before
and girl, I gotta holla
ooh, tell her I said what's up
ooh, I wanna know what's up
ooh, tell her I'm the, I'm the flyest and I'm h-o-t
ooh, tell her I'm Mario, ooh, that I'm a Romeo
soo, why don't you let her know
can u hook it up for me

I'm feelin your girlfriend
can you put me on
she needs a boyfriend
who can put it on
it ain't gotta be serious
we can just chill and have fun
girl you've got to put me on
 

Marvelous 3

 #27

She got the #27
Taken off her license plate
Cuz that was my basketball number
Back when we started to date

And I know, it's better to be unfaithful
To the people that you liked last year

You're still the same
You'll never change
Always a change
You're still the same

Ian Mathews

Shake It

Here she comes slidin'
Shakin' it down the hall
She's got a picture in her locker
An autographed basketball

She's got a purse that was made in Mexico (Mexico)
A mind that was made for love
She's got a new way of dancin' slow
She knows what you're thinkin' of

Master P

featuring Afficial

Roll, How W Roll

I got a mansion in the hills but got apartment in the bricks
I don't fucked supermodels but im married to ghetto chicks
Ball in the NBA on the streets slang quarters
Made ESPN for slangin 3's at Vince Carter

John Mellencamp

Rooty Toot Toot

Went by and picked up my gal, Teddi Jo
We had ourselves a picnic
Beside a dirt road
Rooty toot toot
Rooty toot toot
We had it made in the shade
Like a ball through the hoop
Spinnin' and tumblin' inside this hoola hoop
Livin' and learnin'
Rooty toot toot
 

Method Man and Redman

Y.O.U.

I ain't the one for trickin, on anybody kitten
Rippin these compositions, scriptin them paper-writtens
Holdin and hittin stickin,  ballin like Scottie Pippen
 

Mr T Experience

I Just Wanna Do It With You

I'm wasting my life away
And I know I'll be sorry one day.

But all I ever wanted to do is this
And have someone to waste it with

So anything you wanna do,

I just want to do it with you.

I'm not a cool dude, I don't have a tatoo,

Or a big cadillac or a backwards baseball hat.

I'm not too tall, I can't play basketball.

I can't do much at all but still you wanna touch it all.
Yeah you do, I do too.

Why would I lie?

Everything I said is true

Nas

Project Window

So I look at this poem, I'm hooked to this tune
every night the same melody, hell sounded so heavenly
But jail was ahead of me, ----
Reading's what I should've done, cus my imagination would run
I was impatient to get out and become part of the noise out there
I used to stare, five stories down, basketball courts, shot up playgrounds
and I witnessed the murders and police shake-downs
Yo, the hustlas and hoes, drugs and fo-fos
This was the life of every kid, lookin' out project windows

Oh, outta my window
Lookin' out of my project window
Oh, it makes me feel, so tired
Lookin' out of my project window
Oh, I feel uninspired

Nelly

Country Grammar

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonic and chronic
Fuck bionic it's ironic, slammin niggaz like Onyx
Lunatics til the day I die
I run more game than the Bulls and Sonics

----

Play by, my rules Boo and you gon' stay high
May I, answer yo' third question like A I (Allen Iverson)

Nelly

Greed, Hate, Envy

So you think you're the shit nigga YA smell me
Shouts out to my nigga NORE
I'll never take another man's glory
Shit don't mix like Shaq and Kobe
 

Nelly
Say Now

Ya baby mammas on the porch tellin her daughters "come in"
Got fathers grabbin sons "where the hell have you been?"
Boy and y'all just startin young I'm talkin 13 and 10
They started tradin in the streets some type of ghetto battles
But they aint hoopin in the gym they hoopin crates in the alleys
Where else can you shoot a jump shot
Slang a rock all from the same spot?
Got one gang on this half the other gang
on the other half of the same block
Gunplay on Monday
Sundays a fun day
Will it stop one day?
 

New Power Generation (N.P.G.)

Cherry Cherry

(Full text)

Cherry, Cherry

Rozanda was her real name
But Cherry was her chosen one
Everybody said that she'd soon be dead
But Cherry replied "At least I had some fun" (Oh yes)

Her eyes were like a pool of 24 karat diamonds
I was the last in a long line of foolish men who dived in

Chorus:
Cherry, Cherry, 

I think about U every rising sun
Whoa Cherry, Cherry,

Wherever U are, I hope U're havin' fun (Oh yes)

Tuesday was my big game
North vs. Central in basketball
Underneath their long coats
Cherry and the girls wore camisoles
Every time North would run the hoop
Cherry would flash 'em and they would fall
But not as hard as I fell
When Cherry gave me her number and told me 2 call (U should call me)

Using all the money her boyfriend Wilbur gave her, she'd buy
Anything I wanted, that's why my baby's so fly

Chorus

(Do do do do do)
Me and Cherry got married
And tried our best 2 keep it on the down low, the down low

I was combing her hair
The day that Wilbur called and cussed her on the phone
He beat her up real bad and figured I was gonna leave her
Instead I bought a 45 and set out 2 relieve her (Take him out)
If he was taken out then he could never harm another
No sooner than I got there, I was met by Cherry's mother cryin'

Cherry, Cherry 

Every night I ask the Lord why? Oh why?
Cherry, Cherry 

Another victim of a suicide (Why oh why?)
Why?

Cherry, Cherry
I think about U every rising sun
Whoa Cherry, Cherry
Wherever U are, I hope U're havin' fun
I hope U're having fun, baby

Cherry, Cherry
I'd give anything 2 kiss U
Cherry, Cherry
I guess I just miss U
Cherry

Nuts Can Surf

Cysco

Now, I can through down with any ya'll shit,
`cause I got the shit that'll split your lip.
You may got the flava,
you may got the rhyme,
and you may got the beat's that'll  blow your mind...
But I got it all and it's standing like a wall,
and you'll be bouncing all over the place

like you was a basketball.
When I deflate the rate, I wear it down
but you'll be standing in the corner without a sound
 

Shaquille O'Neal

Fiend '98

I'm the official all star twice as hot as y'all are
Never catch me putting chrome on a small car
I'll buy four more that imagination could dream
Never drink coffee without tasting the cream
Like fill in the golf course Shaq making the green
Another way you'll be fronting playa hating my team
But you feel, still Shaquille O'Neal, real
Since I stacked the deck thick now here's the deal
I pound hard to the ground and make you canopy seen boo
Can't believe the dimes I'm romantically laid too
I think you should relax and keep your heart
Wanna hit better try and get a beat from Clark
Wanna ball grab your jersey and act like you know me
Hit the forum and watch me catch the ooo from Kobe
For y'all punk squad I duck hard
After we fast brake I hit ya chicken make mad cake
"I was a fiend, fiend of a microphone" (for many times....)

Shaquille O'Neal

48 @ The Buzzer

That is stinking if you thinking that I can't flow
A penny for you thought left that in Orlando
Your man know I'm unstoppable when it's hot
Even hotter than the Sun's ?whip cream? to stop
Hotter than Jordan when he hit Clive for 35
 

Shaquille O'Neal

Pool Jam

Slumville's mixin breaks and Tom's on the grill with the fish and steaks
And fixin plates the ladies too fly to swim
And Kenny's on the air with the poolside basketball rim
While dirt belly flapper swam guy
Buckie is in the crib on the NBA Live
You can't crack the vibe you about to boogie all night
The vibe is tight and big Shaq is on the Mic
So raise up the roof with both your hands wha-wha-wha-wha
Welcome to my pool jam
 

Shaquile O'Neal

You Can't Stop The Reign

You can't stop it, block it, when I drop it,
anytime I go rhyme for rhyme on a topic,
You ain't even fit to step in Shaq's arena,
I look into your mind and I see your shook demeanor,
In your eyes, why are you suprised,
no matter how you try, I'm fly as eliquie,
-----

Chorus:
You can't stop the reign,
when it starts to fall,
there's no one else to blame,
you can't unlock that door,
 

7-0, towerin inferno,
invincible smooth individual,
who wanna test it, forgein or domestic,
no matter where you're from, I'm not the one you wanna mess wit',
original with this style, livin lavish,
private jets to let my shorty shop in Paris,
I'm not the average, I'm far from the norm,
It's Daddy Long, keepin' it warm, hitting them strong,
 

Shaquille O'Neal

featuring Peter Gunz

It Was All A Dream

yo yo
this jam right here dedicated to all the little bad knuckleheads

runnin' around gettin' in trouble
just follow your dreams and you'll be aight

(Chorus: Peter Gunz)
yo it was all a dream
deprising and uprising my schemes
but surprising realizing that
yo it was all a dream
I kept my head above the water for cream
but now I'm turnin' all heads when I step on the scene
(yesterday it was just a dream
never thought this could ever happen to me)
it was all a dream
(how a change came around in my life) 

Verse 1:

I went back and forth from ---- to chilltown JC
at first it's just me and mommy
then Phil came along, he bought a basketball go to the park
get your game on Shaq but have your butt back by dark
I was acting like the doc, my game was the joint
dribblin' between my legs like Norm Nixon at the point
materalism kept them other kids biz'm
while I was selling my game they was sellin' izm
words by Phil be a leader not a follwa
don't let the masses of technology swallow ya
la-d da-d we all likes to party
I'm followin' my dreams I'm gonna be somebody
(Chorus)
...............

Verse 3:
somebody wake me up this can't be real
lookin' in the paper, Shaq's about to make a hundred mil
somebody smack me, it's gotta be fake
20,000 square foot crib on the back of a lake
five movie deal with Disney
damn I'm getting busy like Dizzy Calepsi
20 mil check from Pepsi
let's see, red Benz and black Porsche
--- room suburban with roof-top hole and of course
boat with my name on the side so I can ride on the water
with my wife and my baby daughter
I oughta write a book so y'all can see
how easy it is to be who the hell you wanna be
this is a message from Shaq, react bring it on back
follow your dreams and it's like that

Shaquille O' Neal

featuring Phife Dawg

Where Ya At?

Who the hell is Shaq Attack you'd better read the paper
treat me like Biz Markie you'd better catch a vapor
I've got mad props so why would you exploit
punch you in your face like that kid from Detroit
really yo you'd better ask MC Hammer 'bout t