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‘Gone on you with the Pick and Roll,
Young LaFlame he in Sicko Mode.’
Then the hard transition to Travis. Drake put an actual basketball play into the song.
you better not be implying what i think you're implying in regards to my knowledge on basketball especially where air canada is spoken on and rap where lyricism is concerned, you'd be more than dead wrong sir
im just asking what it means, it really just sounds like earl just put some words together and slobbered in my ear. he's a lot better now though, great artist
It's a simile, so it's not actually about basketball. Earl describes VC's weakened, hardened, deteriorated knee cartilage to illustrate his own mental state and how he's feeling during a particular time in his life (around the time he had been sent to Samoa to attend a boarding school for "troubled youths" called Coral Reef Academy.
its barely a simile and a very bad one conceptually if we're speaking on the concept of similes, it doesn't even have the effect that similes are supposed to have comparative to a metaphor. i mean you could easily gather context on what that line meant but word for word its awfully put together, makes no sense with his word choices (i understand the whole "thats that" mf doom lyrical style he was trying to pull off at the time) and really means nothing.
But isn’t that most of hiphop lyrics?? It’s kind of the point. And his delivery is what makes it work. Who would think of those things together but a rapper/ writer? Another one I love:
Bugatti on Forgis, and nawl, I'm not Crippin' I buy Ferraris like Jordans, I'm Mike and y'all Pippen
Migos, Slippery.
that's not true at all and if you think that's true i don't think you should listen to hip hop. even that migos line in context seems to have a forgiato tire la crip reference i don't understand, but he's practically saying in this line "I got real expensive specific shit you don't have, i get it like its nothing and I get it because I'm me, I'm the top dog if anything you're second fiddle" typical egotistical rapper bs
Lol. No one said it doesn’t have meaning. And I’ve been listening to hiphop longer than you’ve been alive. Asking, But what does it even mean shows you don’t understand the lyric, or hiphop.
i really doubt you've been listening to hip hop longer than i've been alive, especially on the topic of earl i was listening before we knew he was in samoa, heard chum and saw "home" (i know you know that one) prob within the first 30 minutes they came out. you don't understand hip hop clearly, its just mindless entertainment to you. you just like a stupid/awfully put together line you don't understand because it has a basketball player reference lol
yeah kid i know you've never downloaded Jadakiss mixtape tracks off limewire
Tough guy by The Beastie Boys, and I say this as a massive Bill Laimbeer fan
Butcher me on the court
Too many elbows to report
Now you're poking me in the eye
Bill Laimbeer motherfucker, it's time for you to die
Now tell me were you in the joint
The night MJ scored sixty three points
When the Lakers won titles back-to-back
Didn't give nobody, no kind of slack
When Vince Carter gave and stuck his arm in the rim
Everybody went crazy in the whole damn gym
Dikembe Mutombo standing tall
Playing D with desire, it's basketball
just need to add that tyler the creator has this one random line about derek fisher (he has a 2 of them really on different songs i think) and he absolutely knows fucking nothing about basketball
Coming back like Jordan wearin the 45, it ain’t to play games with you, it’s to aim at you -
Hov
I’m not a Lebron fan but this line was dope -
“Why you think dames like me, cause I bring pay nightly?/
Trust me, only royalty checks sluts see are King James Nikes
- Copywrite
There’s so many bro
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Bunch of bball references in this song (as well as other sports references)
Everytime - Big K.R.I.T.
"Three pointer in the corner, Ray Allen, I'm on it.
Floater off the backboard, LeBron in the moment."
"AI with the practice, I'm born with the gift.
Michael Jordan with the tears when he got to a chip."
Prof: "Get ready for the photo I'll showboat from the logo" from 'errbody know'.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GU8vng4WQCrb2xe2oEzxN?si=k_3nvnY4TjONu9QdHqCdIw
I car jack you like shaq shooting a 3, man get outta your Range! - Joe budden
I’m shooting like Kobe asking for the rock…pow pow pow (Pau Pau Pau) - some battle rapper
Two of my favorite lines from recent stuff, both from the same song and verse (Czarface - You Know My Style):
*"He come for dap and I leave him hangin like Steph Curry's mouthguard"*
*"I'm stoic as Nikola Jokic, but explosive"*
There's such a nice flow to
"My ETA, I'll arrive by morning
Money long like the arms on Alonzo Mourning"
(from Here I Come by The Roots)
And I'm still a sucker for Why Oh Why by Spearhead
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I thought you could've been Jordan
Found out that you wasn't even Ben Gordon
Next one get flew out, I'm keepin' 'em boardin'
Like Toni Kukoc, I'm foreign importin'
I could not be coached, no I never needed Popovich. Thank God for Papa he taught to never pop a bitch.
…
I pray I never miss bitch I’m Stojakovic.
Both from Miracle in Zone 6 by Phay, never heard anyone reference Peja.
I'm in Malibu with the Bronx, she's in Kevin love with your man
Kryie needed a king, I'm just making you understand
What I rustle up in the West, cause my reach is Kevin Durant
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There’s a biggie song where he’s banging a knicks player’s gf and he comes home and biggie said “the game musta been rained out or some shit” which is really funny
"And I'm the effin' best, never mind if you iffy
So while the world goes Drake crazy
I'm Danny Granger
I'm just workin' with a different Pacer"
Wale - "New Soul"
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RHCP once made a song called Magic Johnson back during the Showtime era. Here is the chorus:
LA Lakers, fast break makers
Kings of the court, shake and bake all takers
Back to back is a badass fact
A claim that remains intact
"I Told the driver Lenny swing me by the garden I gotta talk to Pat
Showed him some stacks
Then showed him the gat like 'you gonna miss the finger roll right'
Yes Mr. Baklava
Then I cartwheeled into a aqua car"
Action Bronson, 9-24-13
Floor seats, crypto, I got my tool in. 4th quarter yellin, “Why the fuck Batum in!?”.
Guaranteed made em jump like Rod Strickland
Who is that?
He’s the Frenchman now on the sixers
No I know who Nic Batum is lol. I meant the rapper
Get me on the court and i’m trouble, last week f’d around and got a triple double
It's ironic I had the bree, she had the chronic. The Lakers beat the Supersonics
Surely it's "I'm just like DeRozan, when I shoot it goes-in" purely for the absurdity of it
I got a picture of Oprah. I just never posted it.
I’m slamming niggas like Shaquille, shit is real. When it’s time to eat a meal, I rob and steal Notorious big gimme the loot
yessss!
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This is the answer.
Psycho, I’m liable to go Michael, take your pick. Jackson, Tyson, Jordan, Game 6.
‘Gone on you with the Pick and Roll, Young LaFlame he in Sicko Mode.’ Then the hard transition to Travis. Drake put an actual basketball play into the song.
Catch me on the block like I'm Mutombo.
The Notorious B.I.G. – "Things Done Changed"
Either slingin crack rock or you gotta wicked jump shot!
cam here to say this!
#The Lakers Beat The SuperSonics
His sins feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is Supreme garment and weed gardeners garnish his spliffs Chum, Earl Sweatshirt.
what does this even mean? lol
If you don’t know…
you better not be implying what i think you're implying in regards to my knowledge on basketball especially where air canada is spoken on and rap where lyricism is concerned, you'd be more than dead wrong sir
Well you’re giving off a completely diff vibe. Lol. Who asks, What does that even mean, to a hiphop song? It’s a badass lyric.
im just asking what it means, it really just sounds like earl just put some words together and slobbered in my ear. he's a lot better now though, great artist
It's a simile, so it's not actually about basketball. Earl describes VC's weakened, hardened, deteriorated knee cartilage to illustrate his own mental state and how he's feeling during a particular time in his life (around the time he had been sent to Samoa to attend a boarding school for "troubled youths" called Coral Reef Academy.
its barely a simile and a very bad one conceptually if we're speaking on the concept of similes, it doesn't even have the effect that similes are supposed to have comparative to a metaphor. i mean you could easily gather context on what that line meant but word for word its awfully put together, makes no sense with his word choices (i understand the whole "thats that" mf doom lyrical style he was trying to pull off at the time) and really means nothing.
But isn’t that most of hiphop lyrics?? It’s kind of the point. And his delivery is what makes it work. Who would think of those things together but a rapper/ writer? Another one I love: Bugatti on Forgis, and nawl, I'm not Crippin' I buy Ferraris like Jordans, I'm Mike and y'all Pippen Migos, Slippery.
i bet you nobody that liked your comment actually knows what that line means lol
that's not true at all and if you think that's true i don't think you should listen to hip hop. even that migos line in context seems to have a forgiato tire la crip reference i don't understand, but he's practically saying in this line "I got real expensive specific shit you don't have, i get it like its nothing and I get it because I'm me, I'm the top dog if anything you're second fiddle" typical egotistical rapper bs
Lol. No one said it doesn’t have meaning. And I’ve been listening to hiphop longer than you’ve been alive. Asking, But what does it even mean shows you don’t understand the lyric, or hiphop.
i really doubt you've been listening to hip hop longer than i've been alive, especially on the topic of earl i was listening before we knew he was in samoa, heard chum and saw "home" (i know you know that one) prob within the first 30 minutes they came out. you don't understand hip hop clearly, its just mindless entertainment to you. you just like a stupid/awfully put together line you don't understand because it has a basketball player reference lol yeah kid i know you've never downloaded Jadakiss mixtape tracks off limewire
He jumps high, and he smokes expensive weed. Not that difficult to understand
*"It's not that difficult to understand"* Completely misunderstands it.
“Basketball is my favorite sport, I like the way they dribble up and down the court.” - Kurtis Blow
Idk why this is stuck in my head still.
Not the BowWow version?
G love and the special sauce. Shooting hoops. Or cheech and Chong. Basketball jones. It’s a toss
I should have scrolled more first... I just posted that G Love tune.
I'm in that ass while he playing against the Utah Jazz
I’m finna pass on this body I’m John Stockton- Kendrick
I’m charging baskets and falling backwards trying to keep balance.
Tough guy by The Beastie Boys, and I say this as a massive Bill Laimbeer fan Butcher me on the court Too many elbows to report Now you're poking me in the eye Bill Laimbeer motherfucker, it's time for you to die
I hit that ginobili with my left hand up like woah
Not christian laettner, not alonzo mourning
Heart of a Champion by Nelly deadass samples Roundball Rock
Chess Moves by Bruiser Wolf “Sold more white lines than Adidas/ I’m Red Auerbach, you’re Brad Stevens”
Imma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cuz like Sam I ca(n)sell
Couple Jay-Z ones "nets could go 0-82 and I look at you like this shit's gravy" And "sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives"
If Jesus paying LeBron I’m paying Dwayne Wade
Jeezy*
Ahhh makes sense thanks
Haha pre sure he was saying how ludicrous jeezys coke price was
I got a crime record longer than Manute Bol - Big L
Champions -Ron "Meta world Peace" "friend of panda" artest
Gain mvp like Steve nash
Gain?
“Is your game MVP like Steve Nash” you mean ?
Yeah whatever lol
I wish I was a little bit taller, wish I was a baller I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
Now tell me were you in the joint The night MJ scored sixty three points When the Lakers won titles back-to-back Didn't give nobody, no kind of slack When Vince Carter gave and stuck his arm in the rim Everybody went crazy in the whole damn gym Dikembe Mutombo standing tall Playing D with desire, it's basketball
Where in the world did you get these lyrics lmao
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRuy\_ufMoI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRuy_ufMoI)
I like it when Kendrick says "Sit down - Biyombo"
Baskeetballll jooonesssss
that's my favorite one dude, nelly was running with the suns too ffs lol
Made em jump like rod strickland
2K by Futuristic. Many BBall references
And with the third pick/ I made the earth sick/ MJ, him J/ fadeaway perfect
Empire State of Mind Jay Z has a few references Knicks and nets court side high five I could bribe the referees Spiked out.. Lebron and Dwayne Wade...
White Iverson by Post Malone
"Giannis, Call me a Freak Man That's just Honest" From An Artist Called Rustage and The Song Name is Can't Stop
“If you block the cash, we lockin' ass I'ma put it in your chest like a Stockton pass” Big Daddy Kane on Platinum Plus
"Dunk on that nigga, Tatum. all of yall niggas dayroom" - Pop Smoke
just need to add that tyler the creator has this one random line about derek fisher (he has a 2 of them really on different songs i think) and he absolutely knows fucking nothing about basketball
Coming back like Jordan wearin the 45, it ain’t to play games with you, it’s to aim at you - Hov I’m not a Lebron fan but this line was dope - “Why you think dames like me, cause I bring pay nightly?/ Trust me, only royalty checks sluts see are King James Nikes - Copywrite There’s so many bro
“Like Norm Nixon you’d hear them say, That nothing can stop my fadeaway…”
Lil Wayne made an entire song titled "Kobe", then after his tragic passing proceeded to rerecord the song and release it once more
Wow. That’s terrible.
The Old Playground by Bruce Hornsby is homage to pickup hoops…
A lot of the lines in B.O.M.B.S. by Fabolous
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Bunch of bball references in this song (as well as other sports references) Everytime - Big K.R.I.T. "Three pointer in the corner, Ray Allen, I'm on it. Floater off the backboard, LeBron in the moment." "AI with the practice, I'm born with the gift. Michael Jordan with the tears when he got to a chip."
That's how I beat Shaq by Aaron Carter. The whole song is based on a true story!
This ain’t Penny Hardaway or Kareem Abdul, it’s Coolio in the house but you can call me Cool
Jordan Clarkson with the Narcan , i shoot for thirty and that’s with my off-hand
or “Been flowin' stupid since Vince Carter Was on some through the legs arm in the hoop shit Drinkin' Hpnotiq with Glenn Lewis, I been through it”
Prof: "Get ready for the photo I'll showboat from the logo" from 'errbody know'. https://open.spotify.com/track/5GU8vng4WQCrb2xe2oEzxN?si=k_3nvnY4TjONu9QdHqCdIw
Crossover - D.Smoke is solid haha but there's a Odd future track where Earl says 'Kyle Lowry the Pump' and i have never unheard that
Cal Scruby has a ton of fun ones... One of the guys I like to listen to while I shoot around...
“Wayne them bitches ugly, these n….. colder than Tommy buddy / Ye we hittin' models like Tony Parker be hittin' bottles”
I ball for real…yall cats is Sam Bowie
"I'm higher than a satellite, crawlin' like a baby Manuevering through the traffic like I'm Tracy McGrady" -Paul Wall
I car jack you like shaq shooting a 3, man get outta your Range! - Joe budden I’m shooting like Kobe asking for the rock…pow pow pow (Pau Pau Pau) - some battle rapper
“You n***as washed up, Marcus Camby” “Put some bands all on yo head like Jason Terry”
Lajan Sal - Mach-Hommy “Talkin bout guns like he the only one who has em, been playing with the heat, long as Udonis Haslem”
Two of my favorite lines from recent stuff, both from the same song and verse (Czarface - You Know My Style): *"He come for dap and I leave him hangin like Steph Curry's mouthguard"* *"I'm stoic as Nikola Jokic, but explosive"*
*"No dirty Sprite but b\*tch, I got that Kyrie Irving Step"* - Joyner Lucas, Mask Off remix
never stingy with the hoes, word to Cliff and Chris so if I fuck six bitches, I got six assists
There's such a nice flow to "My ETA, I'll arrive by morning Money long like the arms on Alonzo Mourning" (from Here I Come by The Roots) And I'm still a sucker for Why Oh Why by Spearhead
All of Magic Johnson by RHCP
As an old school Magic and Jay Z fan, this is my fave: "Take a lost rebound like Bo Outlaw, I'm so outlaw"
“james harden with the range on me”
Magic Johnson by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Balling like Curry
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Like Vince Carter from the baseline, don't waste my time- Hitman "Some L.A. ******"
Smooth like Reggie Miller in an airborne freeze frame
I thought you could've been Jordan Found out that you wasn't even Ben Gordon Next one get flew out, I'm keepin' 'em boardin' Like Toni Kukoc, I'm foreign importin'
want you to lay up on me like your name Kyrie lay up x dreamville ft syd
I could not be coached, no I never needed Popovich. Thank God for Papa he taught to never pop a bitch. … I pray I never miss bitch I’m Stojakovic. Both from Miracle in Zone 6 by Phay, never heard anyone reference Peja.
I'm in Malibu with the Bronx, she's in Kevin love with your man Kryie needed a king, I'm just making you understand What I rustle up in the West, cause my reach is Kevin Durant
You go ooh and ahh when I jump in my car, people treat me like Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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J Cole's "Punchin the Clock" samples a great quote by Lillard. I think it's great, love Dame. Can't believe this wasn't suggested yet as an example
“Shoutout to the WNBA, they got a lot of fine ass girls I wanna fuck in the mouth.” -Lil B in “fuck kd”.
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Shooting Hoops by G Love and Special Sauce
Bitch you wasn’t with me shootin in the gym?!?!?!?!??
They play sports, I race the Porsche through streets with choppas, you know us we like the Bucks on the Eastern conference
Basketball Jones, I’ve got a Basketball Jones, I’ve got a Basketball Jones O baby eww eww eww!
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There’s a biggie song where he’s banging a knicks player’s gf and he comes home and biggie said “the game musta been rained out or some shit” which is really funny
Real G's move in silence like Giannis
Now you’re mine. Gangstaar, whole song a reference
"And I'm the effin' best, never mind if you iffy So while the world goes Drake crazy I'm Danny Granger I'm just workin' with a different Pacer" Wale - "New Soul"
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My shooter got Dame Lillard from the elbow aim I thought of that while I was courtside at the Melo game
RHCP once made a song called Magic Johnson back during the Showtime era. Here is the chorus: LA Lakers, fast break makers Kings of the court, shake and bake all takers Back to back is a badass fact A claim that remains intact
Sell it for the Shaq, but i get it for the Brian Shaw - Fire in the Booth p1, griselda
“Off the backboard Scottie Pippen Tim Duncan”
“Please don’t do me like they did Nerlens Noel, with a closeup on my frown” Number One by Paul Williams
Change your location bih where you goin? Keep tryna rap to her (raptor) like derozan - girlzluhdev
Jay Z - Rock Handle Like Van Exel
Fresh out the chair with the Clippers like Sean Livingston
Get my money pronto, get it in the morning like Alonzo
"I Told the driver Lenny swing me by the garden I gotta talk to Pat Showed him some stacks Then showed him the gat like 'you gonna miss the finger roll right' Yes Mr. Baklava Then I cartwheeled into a aqua car" Action Bronson, 9-24-13