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So maybe rapper Maino\u2019s \u201cAll The Above\u201d featuring T-Pain came out over a year ago, but it still makes regular appearances in my top rotation.<\/p>\nSo maybe rapper Maino\u2019s \u201cAll The Above\u201d featuring T-Pain came out over a year ago, but it still makes regular appearances in my top rotation.<\/p>\n
In fact, during the team\u2019s flight from Washington D.C. to Indiana after Tuesday night\u2019s 115-103 victory over the Wizards<\/a> – Kobe Bryant posted 26 points and eight assists – I couldn\u2019t help but think of No. 24 when this T-Pain verse came up:<\/p>\n Now if I’m up in the spot (spot) That works, right? Who else but Kobe is “still hustling and grinding” after reaching the top, after all? <\/p>\n\n
\nOr if I’m out on the block (block)
\nI hustle hard cause it’s all the same
\nAnd you know that grind don’t stop
\nJust ’cause I rose to the top
\nAnd everybody knows my name
\nStill grindin’ (still grindin’),
\nStill hustlin’ (still hustlin’)
\nNo more pain (no more pain),
\nNo more sufferin’ (no more sufferin’)
\nFor my ladies and my shorties and my thugs,
\nkeep that task, and the shine, and the love<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![\"Kobe](\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/kobe_msg_tpain.jpg\" "\\"59367701\\"")
Despite numerous injuries, including his current broken finger, Bryant has not missed a single Lakers game since the 2006-07 season, when he was forced to skip a March 7 tilt against Milwaukee<\/a> due to a suspension after a tussle with then Timberwolves guard Marko Jaric.<\/p>\n