Sheriff to Shaq: You don't need no stinking badge! You're fired!

He's known as "America's Toughest Sheriff" and today he took action against "The Big Has-been."

Upset about former Laker Shaquille O'Neal's rapping rant against Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant,  Maricopa, Ariz. County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has revoked O'Neal's special deputy's badge that he issued to him in January. (If you remember,  Shaq worked for the Port police in San Pedro before he was sent off to Miami.)

The AP reported that Arpaio got pretty angry about the Phoenix Suns center's use of a racially derogatory word (it rhymes with "bigger") and other foul language in a rap video mocking this year's MVP. Arpaio promoted Shaq to the rank of colonel in his largely ceremonial posse earlier this month.

Shaq -- or whatever he calls himself now -- was seen in a video posted on TMZ.com rapping that "Kobe couldn't do without me." The guy who didn't get out of the first round because he's old, fat and can't move rips Kobe for not being able to win a championship without him.

He also says Kobe ruined his marriage, and suggests that Kobe "tell me how my ass tastes" -- repeatedly.

O'Neal claimed he was "freestyling" and he's fine with Bryant.

O'Neal served as a reserve officer with the Miami Beach Police Department while he was with the Heat and volunteered with the Tempe Police Department after being traded to the Suns in February.

(Yeah, I'm a Kobe guy.)