He Got Game Page #15

Synopsis: Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: Buena Vista
  10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1998
136 min
2,570 Views


- Nonsense perseveres

Prayers laced with fear

Beware

Two-triple 0 is near

It might feel good

It might sound a little somethin'

But damn the game

if it don't mean nothin'

What is game, who got game

Where's the game in life

Behind

the game behind the game

I got game, she got game, we got game

they got game, he got game

It might feel good

It might sound a little somethin'

But f*** the game

if it ain't sayin' nothin'

Yeah, that's right.

Everybody got game.

But we just here to let you all know

that P.E. is in full effect...

from right now

till the year 2000.

Hey, yo, my man, sing it.

There's something happening here

- Yeah, yeah.

- What it is

Ain't exactly clear

There's a man

- With a gun over there

- Yeah, that's right. Ha-ha!

Tellin' me

I got to beware

It's time we stopped, children

What's that sound

Everybody look

what's goin' down

Hey, yo, I don't think

they heard you, Stephen.

Kick it to 'em again one more time.

It's time we stopped, children

What's that sound

Everybody look

what's goin' down

Thought of that millennium

just be killin' 'em

And that's scary

Like lies buried in a library

I ain't even gotta ask it

And who's underpaid that

got fouled at the basket

I can't blame the M.V. who be

gettin' all the Benjies

And takin' them grants

for granted

Last I checked pyramids

wasn't built like projects

Or on them

government checks, uhh

Modern-day thugs

ain't got no guts

Pardon the expression

And the governor nuts

Last time in a church

be the last time in a church

Dead pledge allegiance

to CDs and movies

Leavin' reality

Believe in fantasy

Bleedin' fatalities

Too many formalities

Prayers laced with fear

Beware

Two-triple 0 is here

It might feel good

It might sound a little somethin'

But damn the game

if it don't mean nothin'

What is game, who got game

Where is the game in life

Behind

the game behind the game

I got game, she got game, we got game

they got game, he got game

It might feel good

It might sound a little somethin'

But f*** the game

if it ain't sayin' nothin'

Ahh, ohh, what's that sound

- I got game, she got game

- Everybody knows

- We got game, they got game

he got game

- What's going down

Ahh, ohh, what's that sound

- I got game, she got game

- Everybody knows

- We got game, they got game

he got game

- What's going down

Ahh, ohh, what's that sound

- I got game, she got game

- Everybody knows

- We got game, they got game

he got game

- What's going down

Ahh, ohh, what's that sound

- I got game, she got game

- Everybody knows

- We got game, they got game

he got game

- What's going down

Ahh, ohh, what's that sound

Everybody knows

what's going down

Ahh, ohh

What's that sound

Everybody knows

what's going down

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. more…

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