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.
