Jay-Z and Nets owner set to rap together

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Jay-Z and Nets owner set to rap together

added: 13 Aug 2012 // by: CBS Local

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The rap mogul and part-owner of the Nets may have some company on stage when he opens up the Barclays Center next month.

'Yes, I will rap at his concert,' Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov told Crain's New York Business. 'I am in rehearsals now 10 hours a day and plan to demand joint billing.'

Jay-Z is slated to open up the Nets' new Brooklyn home with a series of concerts starting on Sept. 28.

So was Prokhorov joking, serious, or somewhere in between?

Remember, he has a sense of humor. This is the same guy who joked he'd 'crush' Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in a 'kickboxing throwdown' over point guard Deron Williams.

On the other hand, there's this:

Prokhorov went viral earlier this year for his performance 'on the mic-ro-phone.' The billionaire businessman declared himself the 'real Russian Eminem' in a group rap viewed over 170,000 times on YouTube.

Stay tuned.

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