After hip-hop celebrity 50 Cent and rapper-actor Ludacris slammed Oprah Winfrey, now Ice Cube has a beef with the talk show queen. According to Ice Cube although he has been involved in ‘three projects pitched to her’, he has never been asked to participate, the rapper-actor tells FHM magazine in its July issue, on newsstands June 6. It seems that as 50 Cent and Ludacris, Ice Cube ( who will release his latest album on June 6 ) considers that Oprah Winfrey might have a problem with hip-hop.
As a response to the claims, Winfrey defended herself earlier this month, in a surprise appearance on New York City-based radio station Power 105.1.
I listen to some hip-hop, you know, I’ve been accused of not liking hip-hop and that’s just not true. I got a little 50 (Cent) on my iPod. I really do. Love ‘In Da Club.’ … Love that, and you know, love Jay-Z, love Kanye (West), love Mary J. (Blige).
- Oprah told DJ Ed Lover -
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Ludacris and 50 cent are a bunch of self-hating Uncle Tom sell-outs who entertain little white boys by calling other blacks the N word, call black woman bitches and hos, and encourage and glamorize all the most negative black stereotypes.
Oprah by contast was listed by Business Week as the most generous black in American history, having given a QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS of her OWN MONEY to charity, and Oprah’s audience has given millions more to causes like women in the Congo and Katrina. Oprah portrays positive black images by hosting her Legends Ball, producing black films and broadway plays, and picking Toni Morrison for her book club numerous times.
I agree with your comments Hanison. Hip Hop started out
as a way (through music/black masic) to tell million of stories of people lives in a city. Sadly it has turned out as
a destructive tool used by many blacks on blacks/African-
Americans toward our demise for the amusement of our
enemies & oppressors. I believe they wish to use Oprah’s
show as a means to speed global wide sell of their mind
POISON & destruction of our African-Amercan culture. Also,
as a reminder the present hip hop culture consists largely
of gangsters, hustlers, pimps, video whores, thugs & other
bottom feeders/parasites in our culture (note: every culture
has them). WARNING: in our culture these people have
gained a means (throught hip hop culture) to germinate &
infest our culture with its twisted ideaology.
I personally feel that today’s generation (Jean, Hanison) has no grasp on the true meaning of hip-hop nor the struggles of any celebrity. They, meaning today’s so called true to hip-hop, feel that someone is “selling out” because their making money in a field and or genre of music that only excepts anything negative. In other words no one want to hear anything positive. Just like the media, only focusing on the negative. How many negative things do you hear about Oprah? Is that because she is perfect, or because she has the money to quiet those types of stories. Yeah she has donated a lot of money to charities, but how many of those charities don’t already have money? This whole movement is a test that will see where she stands on hip-hop.
If she ignores it. That will say hip-hop is not important enough to be talked about. If she responds. She has to choose her words carefully. Why? Because the worlds not watching but the hip-hop community is watching and listening. Now truth be told . . .Hip-hop has influenced the nation.
Hip Hop has reduced African Americans to cheap, ridiculous stereotypes. They have perpetuated problems that are destrying our communities…violence, misogyny, ignorance, and get rich quick greed. THEY ARE NOT ROLE MODELS
Alot of young people actaully believe that a “Thug Life” is to be admired. Yet a lot of the pioneers of Gangsta Rap are now mainstream Hollywood darlings. Several of the early Gangsta Rappers came from a middle class background with both parents. Ice-T, Ice Cube are now making comedies and mainstream movies while some children who truely believed in a Gangsta life style are in prison or living in poverty today. How many of the original Gangsta Rappers now live in the areas they sing about? Some of the other leaders and founders of Gangsta Rap have died before their time. I see it as pure entertainment, but some young people actually believe that Gangsta life style is the way too go. Education is the only way out for poor people. Education is the only way for a better a life. Remember Gangsta Rap is only for entertainment.
There have been several allegations that the CIA is bringing in drugs to the minority communites. If this is true than weren’t people like 50 Cent selling the drugs that the CIA was shipping in? That would mean that 50 Cent was in partnership with the CIA to destory the inner cities if the story of CIA involvement in shipping drugs to poor areas is correct. Then the CIA would need people to push the product to our people. That would mean that they were connected.
They are not to admired, but are the new Steppin’ N Fetchin’s and traitors to their race.
These people are just wanting to be on Her Show to sell albums period!!
They are Rediculous Cry Babies, who need to Cry to their DeadBeat Dad’s Instead of to OPRAH WINFREY!!
50 Cent is Absolutley The Worst Thing EVER!!
Luda.. IS What His name IS!!
ICE Cube, I USED to kind of like a little bit. NOT ANYMORE!!
In anycase, How Come These Sorry B….. Aren’t Crying to Montel Williams?
…Because, He’d NEVER HAVE THEM ON HIS BLACK/WHITE SHOW!!
Cryin’ About OPRAH WINFREY!! She Gives Waaay More than they would ever think to. THE GREEDY UN-EDUCATED BASTARDS NEED TO GROW UP!!
They Just want to be on her show to get more…
MONEY MONEY MONEY MUUNAAY!!! – muunaay…
DON’T DO IT OPRAH!! I’LL NEVER WATCH IT!!!!
CANNOT STAND DUMB – BLACK – UN-EDUCATED LYING BLACK, WANNA BE, GANGSTER RAPPERS!!!
THEY ARE EMBARRASSING AND DO NOT DEFINE REAL HIP-HOP!!
yeah well though i do think that people like 50 cent, luda, and ice cube have degraded black citizens, i think that i should point out that 50 cent and Ludacris have really shaped america’s hip hop community. so i love oprah you do have to give them credit there. i dont listen to much rap but…
Cryin’ About OPRAH WINFREY!! She Gives Waaay More than they would ever think to. THE GREEDY UN-EDUCATED BASTARDS NEED TO GROW UP!!
as for this comment, that is BULL SHIT FOR YOU TO SAY!!! not every one can afford school like you, or can even make it to school, so until you live in a nearly as ghetto community as they did, shut your mouth!
ok oprah has done alot for the black peole , But waatching her show you wouldn’t think it. the Audience is filled with mostly white people. How are you truly dicussing whether or not nigga should not be use. they don’t know what it means to be black and Vice Versa. it seems to me she and alot other celebs spend so much money on other countries when we need to take care of the U.S.
You see, I don’t even know if this will be seen, but I actually hope it is. PEOPLE, although Hip-Hop is truely inspirational, and is helping to shape our culture, it is not to be used as a tool for life. I agree that it is for entertainment, but it’s actually meant to MOVE a person. And inspire one’s evolution. My idea of 50 cent is that he is semi-talented, lucky, lucky, lucky. Shot 5 times and lived to rap about it. Everyone thinks he’s cool with his “Bling-Bling” and sh*t talk… but is that EVOLVING you? No. How ignorant, I mean IGNORANT can you be to label the things that Oprah talks about as “Middle-Aged White America?” Don’t you realize, it’s AMERICAN!!! She highlights SUCCESS. When the hell are we going to realize that “Success” has no color. We minorities LET IT! Only ignorant, LAZY minorities label issues like Charity work, Mortgage Payments, Credit/ Finance Interest Rates, Investment Opportunities/ Allocations, Retirement, G and PG Movies, Drunk Driving deaths, Wife Beating Husbands, Breast Cancer, Poverty and Epidemics in other countries, etc as WHITE topics. Good Lord! Does Oprah have to be talking about Bitches and hos to be accepted by Black America? Please tell me no. She’s trying to educate people on the bottom about things that ARE within their grasp. EDUCATE yourselves… Evolve yourself. Trust me, I want to know about 12 year old African girls getting an education from Oprah Winfrey, rather than getting sold into Slavery (yes it still happens), or KILLED IN ETHNIC CLEANSING CIVIL WARS; than about 50-Cent the CRACK DEALER who Literally shot to the top rapping about cool cars, ice and big booty ho’s! 50, I’m not rich, but RESPECT the people that made it possible for you to even dish the crap you rap about. RESPECT!!!! As an African American woman, I must say, aside from my mother, Oprah Winfrey is an AMAZING entity. She is not perfect, but she concentrates on MORAL HUMANITARIANISM. And correct me if I’m wrong… but THAT’S what it’s all about. Kudos to Nas for saying what I just said in about 5 sentences at the Billboard Awards. Now THAT man knows Hip-Hop, and Maternal respect. Out…
To Latin1: APPLAUSE & A RESOUNDING STANDING OVATION!!
You’ve summarized the majority of my personal sentiments about “many but not all” hip hop artists & the labels who are responsible for signing them & circulating their music with full knowledge of the lyrical content which is often mysoginistic, murderous & laced with the glamorization of criminal intent & actions.
I make these statements as a citizen of humanity, as a woman, a wife & a concerned mother of a very young teen-aged male. My son understands that ALL words have impact. He understands that even a joke made at someone else’s expense is coming from a heart of personal insecurity, cruelty & evil intent. No person is “perfect” & all people make mistakes… we, as citizens of this nation & this world must be more responsible for that which we say in addition to that which we do.
Those who do not learn from the historical past are often destined to repeat it… Adolf Hitler kicked off mass genocide (the murder/extermination) of millions of Jewish people by beginning with a simple media campaign of written dehumanizing propoganda against them. It’s looooong past time that we citizens of this nation take a good look at the issue of hip hop lyrics. It’s ABOUT TIME we’re finally having this dialogue collectively as a nation of human beings & I applaud Oprah’s efforts along with anyone else who’s seriously & responsibly examining this matter from a human perspective.
HEY Y’ALL – Hip-hop is all about entertainment!!! These niggroes are getting paid to talk that crap on their CDs. They don’t have to stop using the B-word and the N-word because “that’s what people say where I come from. Y’all don’t know what it’s like in my hood”. BULLSH*T. Just because you may have heard that “in yo hood” doesn’t mean you have to but into it. Elevate yourselves. Bill Cosby was right when he blasted black America for perpetuating ignorance and stereotypes.