Basketball Jones

I got a Basketball Jones

I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby

Oh, oh

Hey, that's Barry White

(An obsession, a burning desire)

Barry, you want some chicken

(The undeniable passion)

Aw, you that singin' stuff

(The love, of someone are some thing)

Y'know you want some chicken

(Yes, he was a victim of a Basketball Jones)

In fact, I was a baddes dribbler in the whole world

(Then one day, his mother bought him a basketball)

And I love that basketball

I took that basketball everywhere I went

You know what that basketball was like a basketball to me

C'mon, you cheerleaders

Basketball Jones

I got a Basketball Jones (happily)

I got a Basketball Jones oh baby oh

Wait a minute, y'all not En Vouge

Where the hell is En Vogue

Somebody told me En Vogue was gonna be here

I guess y'all'll do (yeah)

So what y'all doin' after the game, c'mon

In fact, better looking than my brother Tony

In fact, better looking than my brother Tony

Didn't owe me money, and didn't piss in a bed

And after the game, I always took a shower wit' my basketball

Every now and then, the basketball gonna pinch my butt

But I didn't mind, cause my and my basketball had guts, clean fun

See I am a victim of a Basketball Jones

I'll take my basketball everywhere

I'll even put my basketball under the pillow

(Maybe that's why you couldn't sleep at night)

Sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it like ya wanna

(Yeah) eh-eh-eh, act like Puffy's in the audience

(Sing it out) would y'all shut up

(Oh, sounds so sweet) Barry, don't encourage 'em

They got a Basketball Jones

See I like to play it, I know a thang, yeah, heh-heh

What kinda Basketball Jones y'all got (sing it out)

I see y'all runnin' after a lime zone

Yeah (yeah)

I see ya chasin' Penny around

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan. Ladies and gentleman, the man we came out to see

Michael Jordan, why don't you sing

Sing, I don't sing, that's the other M.J

Oh, okay, I support you

I go to all your games, and you can't sing a lil' song for a brotha

I hope you go bald, oh, you already bald

Basketball Jones, c'mon

I got a Basketball Jones (Tear it up, Chris)

I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby (Eat it up)

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Look up was that Babyface

Was that El Debarge

That musta' been Smokey Robinson

Who the hell was that

I guess that was me

Basketball's a chicken

(An uncontrollable yearning)

Do y'all hear Barry White, do y'all hear Barry White

(The overwhelming emotion to a love for someone are some thing)

I love The Knicks, myself

(Jones) Hey, is the a basketball in the house

Is there a basketball in the house

(A Rib Jones)

Everybody (yeah)

Pat Riley, in the house

Mitch Rechman's in the house

Scottie Pippen, in the house

Turn it out, without a doubt

A-Larry Johnson, in the house

David Robinson, turn it out

Dennis Rodman, in the house

Wit' green hair, without a doubt, c'mon

(Gotta Basketball Jones)

Eh, Michael, can your play

Don't get mad at me, Michael

I just asked you simple question

Does your woman got game

Alright, alirght, I'll leave you alone then

You goin' tryin' to be a bully (you go it)

Bob Costas's in the house

Dr. J, in the house

Bill Walten, in the house

Sheryl Miller, in the house

Bugs Bunny, in the house

Elmer Fudd, in the house

Tweety Bird, what 'cha heard

Pass the word, Tweety Bird

Sylvester, my broth-a

No oth-a, undercov-a

Everybody plays basketball

Mike Tyson, shoots the ball, (damn right)

Against the wall, makes it fall

My mama plays basketball

Charles Bark-lay, in the house

Kenan Anderson, in the house

Shawn Kemp, gon' turn it out

Jack Nicholson, in the house

Courtside, wit-out a doubt

(He's never gonna give it up, never walk away)

Spike Lee, in the house

Chillin', without a doubt