Jay-Z Replies Cuba Trip Critics and Implicates Obama
Rapper/business mogul Jay-Z’s latest track most likely won’t be one President Obama would listen to more than once.
Jay on Thursday
released a single “Open Letter,” in which he fires back at critics of a
recent trip he and wife took to Cuba to celebrate their fifth wedding
anniversary.
The lyrics go like
this: “I done turned Havana into Atlanta,”. “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 Cuba. As it turned out, the couple claims that
they 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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