Off The Jock: The Top 12 Rap Lyrics Dissing Athletes

The Clipse took a hilarious shot at LeBron, but they're not the first MCs to son a ballplayer or boxer.

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Taking sloppy seconds is one thing, but getting it announced on wax (and on the accompanying music video) is another—especially if you're a star athlete like Lebron James. On "Popular Demand (Popeyes)," by our former cover subjects The Clipse, Pusha T discusses a Madonna-looking groupie who's allegedly fucking LeBron...after Pusha already smashed "a long time ago" on a balcony in Miami's Delano Hotel. Like that Bron-Bron? Shots fired!

Whether there's any truth to this story or it's just another rapper tall tale, Pusha's dis of LeBron is hilarious and awesome. Athletes and MCs are so much on that LeBron-Jigga BFF tip these days that it's no longer notable to hear a ballplayer's name in a rhyme. But when an athlete gets dissed on a song? Yup, hilarious and awesome. Read on for our favorite rap sonnings of pro athletes...

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ATHLETE DISSED: Stephon Marbury
BY: Jay-Z on "La, La, La (Excuse Me Miss Again)"

WHY WE CO-SIGN: "Now who's the first pick? Me, word is born and/Not a Christian Laettner, not Alonzo Mourning"
COMPLEX SAYS: Not nearly as effective as the "ass taste" freestyle, but still funny.

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