Top 5 hip-hop lyrics about athletes

By Mark Lelinwalla

Hip-hop artists are among the biggest sports fans, with many rappers talking about sports issues and players in their songs. Here are some of the best sports-related lyrics in recent years:

	Stephon shows off his Marbury posture. Fernando Medina/Getty Images
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5. New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury has become known for his malignant attitude and lack of team leadership. Lil Wayne spoke about Marbury's posture:

"You see me with my Marbury posture/I don't play ball, I point-guard every dollar."

4. Nas didn't waste time questioning Kobe Bryant:

"From O.J. to Kobe, uh let's call him Tobe/First he played his life cool just like Michael/Now he rock ice too just like I do/Yo, you can't do better than that?/The hotel clerk who adjusts the bathroom mat?"

3. Kanye West used a popular upscale entrée to address the Shobe situation:

"She ordered Kobe beef like Shaquille O'Neal/Second I stepped in, the whole room gets still/I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal."

2. Josh Howard may have cost the Dallas Mavericks Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Leave it to New Jersey rapper Joe Budden to point the finger:

"We don't think the same/I'm like Josh Howard/I need time out, but it'll cost the game."

1. Harlem rapper Cam'ron used dazzling wordplay to address a few sports personalities, including the late great Dale Earnhardt:

"I hang with Steinbrenner just to get my cash turn/I call my car Jamal, it get "Mashburn"/Crash, burn, rest in peace Dale Earnhardt/My cousin died the same way, he hit that turn hard."

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