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April 13, 2006

Nets new rap says Ratner’s the man

Brooklyn Papers
By Gersh Kuntzman

A contest to pick a rap theme song for the New Jersey Nets was won by an aspiring rapper who — surprise surprise — mentioned what a great job owner Bruce Ratner is doing with the Atlantic-Division-leading franchise.

“Check the skybox/Blackberry active/Making transactions/It’s Bruce Ratner!!” sings rapper Michael Barnes in “Going Hard.” Ratner’s Nets partner, rapper Jay-Z, created the contest earlier this year in hopes of finding a song that would pump up the volume at the Continental Airlines Arena. Does Barnes’s “song” fill the bill? We invite our readers to judge. Here are the lyrics.

Posted by lumi at April 13, 2006 8:11 AM