Kobe gets rapped by Shaq  Former Lakers center raps at a
nightclub and knocks Bryant for not winning without him.  June
24, 2008|Jonathan Abrams | Times Staff Writer  Finally, a
rivalry indeed renewed.  The NBA Finals sputtered out a week
ago, failing to live up to past Lakers and Celtics lore. Leave
it to Shaquille O'Neal, part-time center, part-time rapper, to
pick up the pieces -- or the microphone -- and poke and prod at
the embers of a feud with Kobe Bryant that had all but died out
some time ago.  "You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do
without me," O'Neal freestyle-rapped Sunday at a New York
nightclub in footage shown on  The reference?  To the Lakers and
Bryant losing the Finals, still without a championship since
O'Neal was traded from the team four years ago, while O'Neal
picked up his fourth ring in 2006 with Miami.  The italicized
comments are some of the tamer and printable remarks in an
obscenity-laced two-minute verse.  O'Neal, now a member of the
Phoenix Suns, and Bryant had a long-sta