Future‘s “March Madness” is serving as the perfect soundtrack to the Boston Celtics’ 18th championship win.
The team defeated the Dallas Mavericks four games to one in the best-of-seven series on Monday (June 17). In a post shared by NBC‘s Boston affiliate this week, Celtics stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown can be seen having a champagne shower as the 2015 smash hit plays in the background.
Tatum also referenced Kanye West’s 2005 Grammy’s acceptance speech for Best Rap Album (The College Dropout) at the celebration.
“I know everybody will wonder what would happen if we didn’t win,” Tatum said while holding the Larry O’Brien Trophy as the crowd cheered him on. “I guess we’ll never know.”
Future’s “March Madness” is one of the most beloved songs in his extensive catalogue. So much so, a viral clip from 2023 actually shows a woman performing the song at a funeral.
The video finds the woman singing the lyrics a capella in tribute to her late partner.
Dirty soda in a Styrofoam / Spend a day to get my mind blown / Dress it up and go to NASA / Two hundred miles on the dash,” she recited through teary eyes while gracing the mic in front of her partner’s family and friends.
The woman’s unorthodox performance was met with a round of applause from the crowd who filled the venue to bid farewell to her man.
“fuck y’all the church was rocking with me,” the woman wrote on Instagram along with a series of crying face emojis while sharing the clip in question.
Just days earlier, she posted videos on Instagram from a Future concert.
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“I thought about Charlie and made myself go, i [couldn’t] miss it,” she wrote. “my Dawg wasn’t here to rock it out with me!! My crybaby ass cried so hard singing them songs!!”
With the clip going viral, it also elicited a ton of reactions from fans across the globe who couldn’t believe their eyes that Future’s discography somehow found its way to be worked into a funeral.
“March madness at a funeral is insane but touching nonetheless,” one person tweeted, while another added: “If she don’t sing March Madness word for word at my funeral it was never real!”
