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ESPN records the 2009 single and Lil Wayne's later 2020 BET Awards tribute performance.
Basketball context, not copied lyrics. Sources stay attached so the story can be checked.
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Lil Wayne — Kobe Bryant
2009
A direct rap tribute to Bryant that became part of the cultural vocabulary around his late-2000s peak.