NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal has been entertaining fans during TNT’s NBA coverage for several years, cracking jokes with fellow former players Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. On Tuesday night, Shaq was so excited by a highlight of Miami Heat swingman Derrick Jones Jr. throwing down a tomahawk dunk over Orlando Magic center Nikola Vucevic that he quoted some NSFW lyrics from Ludacris‘ 2002 hit, “Move Bitch.”
Shaq is reciting the hook from “Move,” when Ludacris raps:
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
While TNT might not have been happy with Shaq’s slip-up, “bitch” isn’t actually banned from TV according to FCC rules.
“Move” was released as the fourth single from Ludacris' 2002 Grammy-nominated album, Word of Mouf. The KLC-produced track peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking the Atlanta rapper’s first Top 10 hit on the chart.
Elsewhere on “Move,” which features New Orleans rapper Mystikal and I-20, Ludacris raps about getting rowdy in the club:
Oh no! The fight’s out
I’m ‘bout to punch your lights out
Get the fuck back, guard your grill
There’s something wrong, we can’t stay still
Shaq has gotten in trouble for lyrics before. During a 2008 offseason party, he dissed former teammate Kobe Bryant while freestyling on stage. On the chorus, he rapped:
Kobe, tell me how my ass taste
Yeah, you can’t do without me
Rapping is nothing new for Shaq. He has released five hip-hop albums, including his 1993 Platinum-certified debut effort, Shaq Diesel, and even made a guest appearance on Michael Jackson’s “2 Bad” in 1995.
In 2017, Shaq got into a strange beef with Big Shaq, the alter ego of U.K. comedian Michael Dapaah, by teaming up with Toronto rapper ShaqIsDope for a diss track.
Read all the lyrics to Ludacris' “Move Bitch” on Genius now.
