Basketball Lyrics & Chords By Kurtis Blow

They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
(Now rapping basketball, number one, Kurtis Blow)

Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
Just like I'm the king of the microphone
So is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop
My favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick and roll, I like the give and go
'Cause it's basketball for Mister Kurtis Blow

They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball

I used to go to dinner and then take the girl
To see Tiny play against Earl the Pearl
And Wilt, Big O and Jerry West
To play basketball at its very best
Basketball has always been my thing
I like Magic, Bird and Bernard King
And number thirty-three, my man, Kareem
Is the center on my starting team

(To the hoop, y'all
Watch out, watch out, in yo' face, here comes the rest)

Clyde, Rick Barry and Pistol Pete
Now these players could never be beat
Isiah and Iceman, too
Just give 'em the ball, and then you talk up too
Dantley and Wilkins are on the scene
And Ralph Sampson is really mean
Bill Russell didn't take no junk
And Darryl Dawkins got a monster dunk

(To the hoop, y'all
Yes
Here I go
Face
Watch, here, here
You can't check me, man
Get on down
Oh yeah, I like this basketball
Here I go, in your face
Swish
Oh yeah
To the hoop, y'all
It's basketball)

Tell me, were you in the joint
The night Wilt scored a hundred points
Or when the Celtics won titles back-to-back
And didn't give nobody no kind of slack
Or when Dr. J shook the whole damn team
With moves that came right out of a dream
Or when Willis Reed stood so tall
Playing D with desire, it's basketball

They're playing basketball (To the hoop, y'all)
We love that basketball (Yeah, yeah, girl)
They're playing basketball (Aw yeah)
We love that basketball (To the hoop, to the hoop, to the hoop, y'all)
They're playing basketball (Shoot the pill)
We love that basketball (Slam dunk)
They're playing basketball (Damn, damn, damn, damn)
We love that basketball (Aw yeah)

I get the ball and then I go and play
Like a superstar in the NBA
The forwards, the centers and all the guards
The ones you see on the bubblegum cards
Then, homeboy, we go one on one
'Cause playing the game is a lot of fun
Sit by the TV and watch 'em all
'Cause Kurtis Blow is rappin' basketball


They're playing basketball (The ball, y'all)
We love that basketball (The pill, the pill, the pill)
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball (Oh yeah, to the hoop)
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
They're playing basketball
We love that basketball
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