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Pitbull yelling things about basketball over ‘Timber’ is an NBA Playoffs song

It’s going down. The NBA Playoffs! (takes poison)

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Have you left your house in the past, oh, four months? You have probably heard the song “Timber” by Pitbull ft. Ke$ha. It sounds ... well ... it sounds exactly like any song with Pitbull and Ke$ha should sound. It’s got some Pitbull verses you won’t remember and a Ke$ha chorus you can’t forget. It is alarmingly catchy, to the point I never want to hear it again.

Anyway! We are talking about it here because it is now the song for the NBA Playoffs, apparently, complete with its own new Pitbull verse:

That Pitbull verse features the following bars:

Crossover pullup, shoot the j off

Alleyoop, slam dunk, PLAYOFFS

PITBULL! YOU JUST SAID A FEW BASKETBALL THINGS AND THEN RHYMED “J-OFF” WITH “PLAYOFF”

THAT’S NOT RAPPING. THAT’S JUST SAYING BASKETBALL THINGS AND THEN RHYMING “J-OFF” WITH “PLAYOFF”

Do not watch the NBA Playoffs. This song will be playing.

Pitbull is also doing the song for the World Cup. I am here to warn you: give Pitbull time, and he will do songs for every sports event ever.

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