Jay-z Is More Than Ready For Barclay Center Opening

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Jay-z doesn’t tweet that often, but when he does, most of the time it’s a subliminal reference to either his wife or one of his business endeavors. (Except for that strange tweet that read, ‘Chris Brown’, which was posted to his account last year).

At any rate, yesterday, in preparation of his sold out shows at the new Barclay Center in Brooklyn, Jay tweeted a photo of himself laid out on the Brooklyn Nets logo with a caption that he took from R. Kelly’s ‘Ignition’ lyrics:

“Usually I don’t do this but, uh go on and break em off with the preview of the remix”.

The tweet was more than likely in reference to the Barclay Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets, which will open it’s doors tomorrow for the first of eight sold out shows that Jay-z will perform there before the Nets actual season starts. The new arena, which hopes to attract more basketball fans since it is closer to Manhattan, houses 101 luxury suites, four bars and lounges, three clubs, Jay-z’s 40/40 Club & Restaurant and eight retail stores.

According to reports, Jay only owns 1/15 of the Nets, however he serves as an ambassador for the team as well as a key contributor in the arena. He pushed to change the team’s colors to black and white, redesigned the logo and will dictate most of the music that is played during games.

And have you seen the BK Nets’ dancer’s uniforms? They are so ’round the way girl’ meets Destiny’s Child’s wardrobe. You sure Mama Knowles didn’t have anything to do with this? Ha!

It’ll be interesting to see how the move to Brooklyn will go for the Nets. Traffic will be a bish but at least the Arena is more accessible than when the Nets were playing out in Jersey.