‘Fear the deer’: Milwaukee rapper Romey uses Bucks championship as inspiration for hit song

Published: April 1, 2022, 10 a.m.

Last year, when the Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA title in 50 years, Jerome Hunt, a Milwaukee hip-hop artist who goes by the stage name Romey, was courtside. As a lifelong Bucks fan, the moment was not just a thrill, but the inspiration to his hit song “Fear the Deer.”