TP's "Top of the Game" Feat. Fabolous and Booba

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Thurl and I cannot take credit for this one. Brickowski outdid us once and for all by directing our attention to the inconceivable collaboration between Tony Parker, Fabolous, and French Rapper Booba (Shoals assures me that there is a shout-out to Tim Duncan somewhere in this song)...<br>
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First of all, this COMPLETELY raises the stakes on strange collaborations. It used to be, "Wow, that's odd KRS ONE and Puffy did a song together" or "Gee whiz, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow made a ballad!" Soon it's gonna be, "that new Matthew Barney collaboration with Warren Sapp, Debra Winger and Beenie Man is GULLY." The LEAST strange aspect of this song is that Mr. Longoria is rapping. The most strange, potentially what was FAB-O doing with these Parisian cats?<br>
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Equally strange--although I can't tell what he's saying--is that Parker sounds really f@#%$ good. Like way better than any athlete attempting to rap. Ever. Seriously. Like, dude is way more intelligent than Kobe or Cedric Ceballos, so he probably actually rehearsed and practiced his craft for a while before taking to the studio.<br>
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Which all brings me to the fact that I can't really hate on the Spurs anymore. Maybe I never did. Maybe I just hated on Sean Elliot and Steve Kerr as homer-tastic commentators (you'd think Kerr was never a member of those MJ-Bulls teams!), the praise for Ginobili's recklessness that the equally wacky 2002-2003 Troy Hudson never received (Black people "loot" and play "out of control;" Argentinians "find"....and play "fearlessly"), and the idolizing of Duncan merely because (gassssssssssssssssp) he graduated college.<br>
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<p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.sahoops.net/jackie/blondie4spursbanner.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p220.ezboard.com/bsanantoniospurs62937.showUserPublicProfile?gid=blondie4spurs>Blondie4Spurs</A>  <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://homepage.eircom.net/~bray/em/orose.gif" BORDER=0> at: 10/30/05 8:44 pm<br></i>

Woa... Tony goes first right, <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.sahoops.net/smilies/lol.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

what no one has a comment on this? <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.sahoops.net/jackie/blondie4spursbanner.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p204.ezboard.com/bsanantoniospurs62937.showUserPublicProfile?gid=blondie4spurs>Blondie4Spurs</A>  <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://homepage.eircom.net/~bray/em/orose.gif" BORDER=0> at: 10/9/05 8:08 pm<br></i>

wow that was pretty good. i didnt really care much for that booba guys part. tonys flow was nice. i wonder if tony will come out with a rap CD like shaq, kobe and AI lol! hahaha that would be awesome! we will finally have someone on the team with Street Cred! <p></p><i></i>

Im just afraid Tony is getting too "Hollywood"......... <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.sahoops.net/jackie/blondie4spursbanner.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p204.ezboard.com/bsanantoniospurs62937.showUserPublicProfile?gid=blondie4spurs>Blondie4Spurs</A>  <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://homepage.eircom.net/~bray/em/orose.gif" BORDER=0> at: 10/9/05 10:04 pm<br></i>

geez louise that was cool...I will have to listen to it quite a few times before I'll understand any of the French part though! <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img131.exs.cx/img131/7484/jgspurssig3hp.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

goodie you can translate it for us! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :clap2 --><img src=http://www.sahoops.net/smilies/clap2.gif ALT=":clap2"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.sahoops.net/jackie/blondie4spursbanner.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

haha don't get your hopes up too high ;) but if I can't do it then I'll definitely get one of my French friends to translate. <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img131.exs.cx/img131/7484/jgspurssig3hp.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

I know he's just a basketball player but that sounds terrible. <p><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.sahoops.net/banners/lock12.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--> <br>
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hahahaha that was actually kinda tight! Tony flows good with the beat. I though one of Fab's lines was cool, where he says something like "Ya'll in the U.S. don't know what ya been missin'", or something like that. And yeah I thought that Booba guy sounded kinda weird, didn't really like him all that much. Other than that it was cool! hahaha I was listening to it on my RealOne Player, and at the top of the window it said "Tony Parker <br>
Genre: Folk Pop" and also "Tony Parker is one of 12,500 artists available in RealRhapsody". LMAO!!!!!!!!! I knew it probably wasn't talking about our TP, and it wasn't. I guess there's some folk singer guy out there or someone who's name is Tony Parker. <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://musicstore.real.com/music_store/album?albumid=1090129&artistid=678157&filter=y&sort=rd">musicstore.real.com/music...=y&sort=rd</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> But I still thought that was funny! <p></p><i></i>

For a rapper, TP is a pretty good basketball player! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.sahoops.net/smilies/lol.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.mailbling.com/mikerep.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>
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