Hoop Dreams

I'm talkin' 'bout hoop dreams, hoop dreams

My nigga had hoop dreams, hoop dreams

Some niggas ball, some niggas shoot

When you from where I'm from, everybody wanna hoop

I'm talkin' 'bout

Dwayne Wayne to Dwayne Wade, fire on him

So hatin' niggas that ain't paid put fire on him

But he was USA, Jordan, nine on him

The old heads he used to hoop with even tried to warn him

Not everbody gets those dreams

Even Ewing didn't get no ring

We see the beamers drive by and some guys won't get those keys

But we pray that Jesus shutters when we hit them threes

And I will choose to this crew and move keys fast

But he passed like Steve Nash

'Til the day that he need cash

Then he has to start to say

Move dimes easy or make pennies the harder way

Like get a job today

He says that's too boring

I'm to broke to pay attention

I'm getting what I'm affording

And girls watch from the floor and recognize him from scoring

And rims on twenty-threes, now he's the new Jordan

With his

Carry heat like Alonzo

A nine like you Rondo

Then you hit the block, Dikembe Mutombo

Flew to the top fast, now you gotta drive slow

Yao Ming out in Houston with yo eyes low

You shooting for racks on racks

Got dreams to be Kareem, then match the stats

I'm talking Bill Russell rings, back to back

No Toronto, but some niggas just rap the rap

Cause everybody can't ball and that's a fact

But I came with the Magic, Shaq attack

My OG told me, victory's so sweet

But not everything, that's a Phil Jackson chat

I'm talkin' Bulls verse Jazz, I captured that

Cause I take all of the glory these Caps could cap

Uh, my dudes lost, still out there shooting

Funny thing is none of them were hooping

But they had

Because the streets is a short stop:

Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot

Because the streets is a short stop:

Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot