Sports player references in songs......

[The 24th Letter]

Kinda like my other thread about game references.......post em here....

ill start it off w\ possibly the greatest one...

"Its Hovi baby, Kobe maybe, Tracey McGrady, matter fact you a Harold Minor, JR Rider, washed up on marijuana\\ even worse you a Pervis Ellis, you worthless fella, you aint a athelete, you Shawn Bradley\\ -Jay-Z

[dossier]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

"Slam on tha ***** like mah name Vince Carter" - Hurricane Chris in Hand Clap

"Mami in the zone like the homie 2-3 Jordan or James, makes no difference Boo I'm balling the same I am the Mike Jordan of recording" - Jay - Z in Show Me What You Got

"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 Kobe Bryant of an artist
Same coach, same game, been starting ...Same triangle offense" - Lil Wayne in Dough Is What I Got

Just a few I can remember

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

"I perform like Mike---anyone; Tyson, Jordan, Jackson...." - Notorius B.I.G. in "Victory" by Puff Daddy.

[Cebby]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

I believe Joe Budden has a clause in his contract that he must put a sports reference in any song, freestyle, or remix he puts out.

That said, Little Wayne mentions the Hornets twice on The Carter, with "I'm like BD, you can't stop my dribble or block my layup" and "I sleep with women that sleep with the hornets"

Also, Kanye would "order the Kobe beef like Shaquille O'Neal"

[Brandwin]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

....

Pharoahe's Official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene
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 ***** 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 n**** in his face, Pharoahe's the Sporting Authority
Blacks attracted to my rap like dames to sororities
You already f***** 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 Greene
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 Greene
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 Greene
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 Greene
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 f***, 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 comin wit the *scatting*</pre>

[SageInfinite]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

I got too many in my songs, heres two examples.....

"For n***** that think they know me, fail to realize that any night I could go for tha 40 like Kobe...."
SageTheInfinite - Window Shopper Freestyle


"And it aint nuthin, to know where you standin I study my opponents formations better than Peyton Manning/I'll change tha play at the line, but when I'm barkin tha calls and waivin my arms I'm sprayin tha nine......."
SageTheInfinite - In Tha Hood Freestyle

I just realized I use alotta sports refrences in my rhymes

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Gettin Jiggy Wit It

JayZ- Encore ..something about coming back like Jordan in the 45 (jersey)

[e0820]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

I have no idea who the artists are in the previous posts, but I do know a reference to a sports player in a song.

Centerfield by John Fogerty

"You know I took some lumps when the mighty casey struck out.
So say hey willie, tell ty cobb and joe dimaggio"

[joshuar9476]

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Basically any Beastie Boys song from Check Your Head or Ill Communication ...

[bgeno]

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Nelly Furtado:

"Is it the truth or are you talking trash
Is your game M.V.P. like Steve Nash?"

[cubsfan203]

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Paul Wall says something like "sharpshooter like Steve Kerr" in one of his songs.

[Briman123]

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Heart of a Champion- Nelly has TONS

"C'mon, uhh, uhh
I guess he's back 'urr derrty, S-T-L derby
I'm like Magic to Kareem, mayne you tell me I ain't Worthy
I ain't speakin 'bout a jersey, I'm speakin 'bout income
DID YOU HEAR THAT ELIZABETH? HERE COME THE BIG ONE!
I put mo' money in the community than you got in yo' budget
I wipe my *** with yo' advance to the toilet then flush it
My last stance be a stance of a General Custard
I hot dog cause I can, I got the cheese and mustard
I got the stats of a hall of famer - in just two records
That's why I'm back up at the Superbowl - with Julius Peppers
I got that cain't stop, won't stop, in my veins
That's why they cain't stop, won't stop, screamin the name
NELLY! NELLY! Go tell a friend to tell a friend
I'ma keep the same grin whether I, lose or win
Up, or down ten, I'ma fight to the end "


"I'm the first pick, the first round, signin bonus profound
Playin for his hometown, reppin for the home ground
And gettin buffer like Michael Riggs, tell 'em again
I gets buffer like Michael Riggs, heard what I said?
The MV-P of the game, intensity still the same
I'm shootin out from my reign, with Peyton Manning type aim
Can't stop me from scorin so they results are just hackin
So there's, three of us now - me, A.I. and Shaq'n
From the look to the as I say
Hover man with more heart than Hallmark on Valentine's Day
I'm the one that you've been Raven about, like Ray Lewis
I think it hard to go and change your route
Cause you don't know if I'm blitzin or if I'm sittin and readin
Waitin for you to go and trip, drop back and throw up a brick, man
AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - NO, AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - NO
AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - NO, AIN'T NO WAY THEY CAN - NO "

[Blzer]

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I believe there's a song called Barry Bonds...

[heitkamp94]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

Wu Tang made em jump like Rod Strickland

[SPTO]

Re: Sports player references in songs......

"Talkin' Baseball"

whiz kids had won it,
Bobby Thompson had done it,
And Yogi read the comics all the while.
Rock n roll was being born,
Marijuana we would scorn,
So down on the corner
The national past-time went on trial.

Refrain:
We're talkin' baseball
Kluzuski Campanella
Talkin' baseball
The man and Bobby Fella
The Scooter, the Barber, and the Newc
They knew them all from Boston to Dubuque
Especially Willie, Mickey, and the Duke.

Well Casey was winning,
Hank Aaron was beginning,
One Robbie going out, one coming in.
Kiner and Midget Cadell,
The Thumper and Mel Parnell,
And Ike was the only one winning down in Washington.

Refrain.

Now my old friend
The Bachelor
Wee he swore he was the Oklahoma Kid.
And Cookie played hooky
To go and see the Duke,
And me I always loved Wil Willie .
Those were the days.

Well now it's the 80's,
And Brett is the greatest,
And Bobby Bonds could play for everyone.
Rose is at the Vet,
Rusty again is a Met,
And the great Alexander is pitching again in Washington.

I'm talkin' baseball,
Like Reggie, Quisenberry,
Talkin' baseball,
Carew and Gaylord Perry,
Seaver, Garvey, Schmidt and Vida Blue,
If Cooperstown is calling, it's no fluke.
They'll be with Willie, Mickey, and the Duke.
Willie, Mickey, and the Duke. (Say hey, say hey, say hey)
It was Willie, Mickey and the Duke (Say hey, say hey, say hey)
I'm talkin' Willie, Mickey and the Duke (Say hey, say hey, say hey)