[00:00.35]They're playing basketball
[00:04.79]We love that basketball
[00:09.34]They're playing basketball
[00:13.90]We love that basketball
[00:18.56]They're playing basketball
[00:23.12]We love that basketball
[00:27.63]They're playing basketball
[00:32.25]We love that basketball
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[00:45.93]They're playing basketball
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[00:51.36](Now rapping basketball,
[00:52.99]number one, Kurtis Blow)
[00:55.74]Basketball is my favorite sport
[00:58.18]I like the way they dribble up
[00:59.30]and down the court
[01:00.24]Just like I'm the king of the microphone
[01:02.53]So is Dr. J and Moses Malone
[01:04.97]I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop
[01:07.27]My favorite play is the alley-oop
[01:09.29]I like the pick and roll, I like the give and go
[01:11.66]'Cause it's basketball for Mister Kurtis Blow
[01:14.01]They're playing basketball
[01:17.94]We love that basketball
[01:22.52]They're playing basketball
[01:27.11]We love that basketball
[01:31.27]
[01:32.34]I used to go to dinner and then take the girl
[01:34.48]To see Tiny play against Earl the Pearl
[01:36.90]And Wilt, Big O and Jerry West
[01:39.22]To play basketball at its very best
[01:41.52]Basketball has always been my thing
[01:43.79]I like Magic, Bird and Bernard King
[01:46.12]And number thirty-three, my man, Kareem
[01:48.43]Is the center on my starting team
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[02:03.85](To the hoop, y'all
[02:05.12]
[02:06.37]Watch out, watch out, in yo' face,
[02:08.23]here comes the rest)
[02:09.31]Clyde, Rick Barry and Pistol Pete
[02:11.22]Now these players could never be beat
[02:13.78]Isiah and Iceman, too
[02:15.91]Just give 'em the ball, and then you talk up too
[02:18.46]Dantley and Wilkins are on the scene
[02:20.56]And Ralph Sampson is really mean
[02:23.00]Bill Russell didn't take no junk
[02:24.99]And Darryl Dawkins got a monster dunk
[02:27.59]
[02:30.69](To the hoop, y'all
[02:31.96]Yes
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[02:35.55]Here I go
[02:36.66]Face
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[02:38.92]Watch, there, here, damn
[02:40.60]
[02:42.99]You can't check me, man
[02:45.34]
[02:48.70]Get on down
[02:50.33]
[02:50.84]Oh yeah, I like this basketball
[02:52.57]Here I go, in your face
[02:55.06]Swish
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[02:58.40]Oh yeah
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[03:01.19]To the hoop, y'all
[03:02.93]It's basketball)
[03:04.14]Tell me, were you in the joint
[03:06.19]The night Wilt scored a hundred points
[03:08.38]Or when the Celtics won titles back-to-back
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[03:10.63]And didn't give nobody no kind of slack
[03:13.03]Or when Dr. J shook the whole damn team
[03:15.53]With moves that came right out of a dream
[03:17.66]Or when Willis Reed stood so tall
[03:19.88]Playing D with desire, it's basketball
[03:22.12]They're playing basketball (To the hoop, y'all)
[03:26.47]We love that basketball (Yeah, yeah, girl)
[03:30.79]They're playing basketball (Aw yeah)
[03:35.57]We love that basketball
[03:38.30](To the hoop, to the hoop, to the hoop, y'all)
[03:40.44]They're playing basketball (Shoot the pill)
[03:44.66]We love that basketball (Slam dunk)
[03:49.25]They're playing basketball (Damn, damn, damn, damn)
[03:54.10]We love that basketball (Aw yeah)
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[03:58.76]I get the ball and then I go and play
[04:01.19]Like a superstar in the NBA
[04:03.52]The forwards, the centers and all the guards
[04:05.68]The ones you see on the bubblegum cards
[04:08.09]Then, homeboy, we go one on one
[04:10.30]'Cause playing the game is a lot of fun
[04:12.78]Sit by the TV and watch 'em all
[04:14.83]'Cause Kurtis Blow is rappin' basketball
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[04:53.33]They're playing basketball (The ball, y'all)
[04:57.93]We love that basketball
[05:00.95](The pill, the pill, the pill)
[05:02.26]They're playing basketball
[05:06.79]We love that basketball (Oh yeah, to the hoop)
[05:11.70]They're playing basketball
[05:15.99]We love that basketball
[05:20.60]They're playing basketball
[05:25.11]We love that basketball...
[05:29.72]They're playing basketball, We love that basketball...
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