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December 21, 2008
Jay it ain't so
NY Daily News
Filip Bondy
Saying Jay-Z is a confident dude might be an understatement. (Wouldn't you be confident with Beyonce (r.) on your arm?) But the hiphop mogul and minority Nets owner might have jumped the gun when he bragged about relocating the team to Brooklyn on his new single, "Brooklyn Go Hard."On the track, Jay-Z rhymes: "I father, I Brooklyn Dodger them/I Jack/ I Rob/ I sin/Ah man, I'm Jackie Robinson/ except when I run base, I dodge the pen/Lucky me, Luckily they didn't get me/Now when I bring the Nets I'm the black Branch Rickey."
Slow down, there Z. Of course Rickey was the Major League Baseball executive, who signed Jackie Robinson to break MLB's color barrier.
But Jay-Z might have spoken too soon.
This past Wednesday, officials with Nets owner Bruce Ratner's company conceded that the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn has been put off indefinitely for financial reasons. At least Jay-Z still has Beyonce.
Posted by amy at December 21, 2008 11:47 AM