He’ll come up with multi-syllabic rhymes for sports figures like Boomer Esiason (niacin) or bodybuilder Gerrit Badenhorst (banana Porsche). He’ll string four references to four Chicago athletes in three different sports in two bars. He’ll call himself THE YOUNG RANDY VELARDE for no discernable reason. We went ahead and compiled every sports reference in Action’s lyrics, from the details of his shoe collection to the time he lost money because of Prince Fielder’s poor fielding.

(We couldn’t have done this without Rap Genius and their searchable lyric database.) Basketball We hope you enjoy and appreciate every single one. What if Allen Iverson was Chinese riding on a Harley - from 'With My Soul' by The Alchemist and Budgie I have listened to this line a few dozen times and I have no idea: Smoke the shark, Greg Norman shit, me and Robert Horry in a foreign whip - from 'Midget Cough' We could’ve filed this one under 'golf' for the Greg Norman reference, but he CLAIMS TO RIDE AROUND TOWN WITH ROBERT HORRY which is very important: You gotta pay for my appearance, it will never be on clearance / Clarence Weatherspoon, my boo could boof like ten balloons - from 'Long Pinky' by Beautiful Lou He just wanted to name a song 'Chuck Person.'ĭoesn’t get much more random than just saying 'Clarence Weatherspoon' in the middle of a bar: Let’s put it this way: Action has a song called 'Chuck Person' wherein he does not even explicitly reference former NBA player Chuck Person. I truly do not know how the world would be different if Allen Iverson was Chinese riding on a Harley. Pull it, leave his body where the Pistons play / Rock a mask like Richard Hamilton and hit the J - from 'Traction' by Boldy James Rip Hamilton’s mask was kinda murder-y, and the Detroit suburbs might be a good place to hide bodies: Hoop it up, I put myself against your best three / Dunk on Dikembe / if not for minor setbacks I would’ve been paid - from 'Watersports' He raps again about Dikembe on 'Watersports.' In the intro, he says 'Shit yo, it’s like I’m always dunking on Dikembe Mutombo' and in the verse, he goes See me swerving side to side like Mutombo finger On a California king where the thug lay (that’s word to me man) On 'No Time,' Action makes one reference to different aspects of Dikembe Mutombo’s finger in each verse: Iverson is also the subject of ' Practice,' which features a long snippet of AI’s famous rant. Pretty much any NBA player who was good at shooting can get in the mix when Bronson begins talking about guns. You fucking with a hornet’s nest / Old shooters in the corner like Hornacek - from 'Meteor Shower' by Ghostface Killah Probably calamari, my young shooter I call him Gallinari / Still serve the Knicks, nibbles of parmigiani - from 'Mr.

True lies, diamonds at the porter / Shoot like Terry Porter, pimpin’ with your Asian daughter - from 'Gateway to Wizardry' I’m the doobie scholar / Old foreign white shooters, Tom Gugliotta - from 'Auntie Maria’s Crib' by Nitty Scott The motherfucker making a drug look like Urkel / Forward shooters like Türkoğlu - from 'The One' by Prodigy and The Alchemist Pair of shooters Anthony and Harper / Caciocavalli dog I’m sharper than the archer - from '103 and Roosy' He’s talking about ‘94 Knicks Greg Anthony and Derek Harper here in this 'shooters' metaphor: The beard gumbo / Three pointers in the park for a clean hundo - from 'The Stick Up' I’m never rocking jewelry / But I’ll step on the court and pop a 3 for a stack / Just call me Tracy Murray - from 'German Engineering' by Shaz IlyorkĪ thousand dollars on the jump shot / Rocking some dress shoes / No shirt on ‘em like Bird from the corner - from 'Take My Turn' by Termanology Olives pressed, greenish on the glimmer / Get me on the court, shoot from anywhere like Jimmer - from '5x8' by Maffew Ragazino Specifically, his belief that if you bet him large sums of money, he will hit a jumper from anywhere on the court: Shootin’ like a Piston, aim for proper distance - from 'Randy the Musical'Īlthough sometimes Action is actually talking about shooting basketballs.

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