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WATCH: Rapper Ryan Leslie burns front page of The Post, reporting on $1M verdict against him

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Cheapskate rapper Ryan Leslie reacted to a $1 million verdict against him by burning the front page of The Post in front of cheering concert fans.

The hip-hop hothead was spewing over a Manhattan federal jury’s ruling on Wednesday that he had to own up to the $1 million reward he promised for the return of his MacBook Pro that had been stolen in Cologne, Germany.

German auto-body-shop owner Armin Augstein, 54, who found the missing laptop and returned it, but never saw a cent, sued Leslie here in the US and won.

Leslie posted a video on YouTube of him angrily rapping at the Long Island University campus in Brooklyn last week: “Don’t believe everything you read in the f–kin’ news, ’cause these haters’ll really prefer to see you lose.”

As he held up The Post’s front page (hot off the presses!), someone in the audience shouted out, “Burn it!” — after which he lit the paper, then dropped it to the floor and stamped on it.

Earlier, the multi-talented Harvard grad — who has produced songs for Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige — told the crowd how he was shamed by the coverage.

“And so I woke up today to get me some orange juice, man, and the lady who works at the deli was like, ‘Aw man, you’re the guy on the front page of the paper today!’ and I looked at the headline. It said ‘rap weasel’ . . .”

Leslie claimed the laptop was worthless because he couldn’t retrieve his multi-track songs on the hard drive. He will apparently appeal.