Taxpayers and tax preparer may give taxes a bad rap, but rapping about taxes paid off for a 28-year-old real estate investor from Brooklyn, N.Y.

Christian Pulfer is the grand prize winner of $25,000 in the TurboTax TaxRap contest. Pulfer's entry, "It's Just a Breeze…G," was selected by guest judge Vanilla Ice from more than 370 homemade rap videos.

Intuit sponsored the TaxRap contest, which ran from Feb. 8 to March 30 on YouTube and at www.TheTaxRap.com [1].

Intuit launched the contest with an original rap video by Vanilla Ice, titled “TurboTax Mojo,” which garnered more than 1 million views with homepage takeovers on YouTube, ranking as the most viewed entertainment video in its debut week.

"If you need a dollar, holler, 'cuz I got a lot back," Pulfer raps in his video, which was showcased on the homepage of www.YouTube.com [2] on April 15.

"This video stood out as one of the most individual and creative entries," said Vanilla Ice. "The lyrical content, his style as a rapper - he put it all together and had some fun with it."

In addition, Carl Tietze from Portland, Ore., was named the $5,000 first-place winner, and Rhett McLaughlin and Zink Neal from Fuquay-Verina, N.C., were the $1,000 second-place winners. The winners were selected from the 13 finalists who garnered top votes from YouTube viewers.

Collectively, the rap videos were viewed more than 2.5 million times.