Did Jay-Z Go Too Far
With His Obama Rap on Cuba?
White House spokesman denies claim
made in rapper's latest track.
Jay-Z's
latest track most likely won't get a favored playlist slot on President Obama's
iPod.
The rap
mogul on Thursday released "Open Letter," in which he shoots back at
critics of a recent trip he and wife Beyoncé took to Cuba to celebrate their
fifth wedding anniversary.
“I done
turned Havana into Atlanta,” he raps. “Boy from the hood, I got White House
clearance… Politicians never did s--t for me except lie to me, distort history…
They wanna give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a real crime.”
Three
Cuban-American congressional lawmakers had questioned the legality of the trip
this week because of a U.S. ban on travel to the Caribbean island. As it turned
out, the couple had received clearance from the Treasury Department as
required, but Obama had nothing to do with it, White House spokesman Jay Carney
assured reporters Monday.
“Hear the
freedom in my speech… Obama said, ‘Chill you gonna get me impeached,"
Jay-Z later raps. "You don’t need this s--t anyway, chill with me on the
beach.'"
Carney on
Thursday reiterated that the president and the rapper have not discussed the
trip.
"I
guess nothing rhymes with Treasury," Carney joked on Thursday, adding,
"The White House, from the president on down, had nothing to do with
anybody's travel to Cuba. That is something that Treasury handles."
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