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Ludacris Says Anti-Oprah Comments Exaggerated

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
By: Kenny Rodriguez


LudacrisAtlanta-based rapper Ludacris, who criticized Oprah Winfrey for her supposed bias against hip-hop, recently said he feels his comments have been exaggerated.

“I do think the media has kind of blown this whole thing out of proportion,” he said. “Oprah is a great individual. Everything she has accomplished for herself, we all look up to that.”

Ludacris, born Chris Bridges, was invited on Oprah’s popular talk show last year in promotion of the Oscar-winning film Crash, but instead Oprah berated him for his controversial rap lyrics. The multi-platinum artist later spoke about the incident to GQ magazine – and since then, rappers 50 Cent and Ice Cube have also publicly criticized Oprah for her lack of hip-hop coverage.

However Ludacris said although he’s not happy with Oprah’s thoughts about rap music, she is still an important role model and urged fans not to boycott her show.

"I disagree on one issue but that doesn't mean you don't like them or still have love for them,” he said. “We're on a show about not judging people and I automatically got judged. She got on there and said she didn't agree with my lyrics, and I will respect her opinion or not.”

“I defended myself on the air, and when the show aired my defensive comments were taken out. All I want from her is to respect my opinion also. … By Oprah not having rappers on the show that says to me that we are the scum of the earth. Maybe she feels that rappers degrade women."

Ludacris insists he would welcome the chance to return to Oprah’s show to discuss rap music. "She might try to have a show with just rappers on there to make a point. I'd do it if it was a live show because who's to say they wouldn't do the same thing again, where my comments get stripped."


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Thats big. I got time for that. Luda showin that respect is still their. Maybe that could teach a few people something!!
Posted by HenNy
Like i stated in the other post....i believe that she only want ppl that agree with her opinion. And her opinon is just that....."her opinion"...but when you smash the cat on national tv and then dont give him the chance to explain or debate, thats a "lack" of respect. Shady. I dont care if oprah like hip hop or nothing else...but shes just doing the same thing ppl hate about ppl like bush, the media,and the dayem police. Only tell their side of the story. By the way, when did she become the measuring stick for what is right, pure, and normal? shyt the fact that luda "stated" that he still had respect for "her" was only said because hes on a roll now and shyt like a beef with "oprah" will dead his movie career. Wow!! ppl used to say that about "the man"...."boy dont mess with masta' he good ppl, whut are you doing, go apologize." smh.
Posted by Kalliope4eva
She is hugh being the richest chick on the planet and all..but lets face it. She removed dudes comments so we can only hear her downgrading side and opinions regarding hip hop /rap. She will not show love to hip hop or give it a equal voice on her show or any show she produces..nah that aint going to happen....she just wants to downgrade the music and the culture like most haiters do!!
Posted by SanJose420
Mad respect for luda, and i think luda is one of the most underrated rapper. I think he deserved more props as a lyricist.one love from nyc..peace!!!
Posted by DONCARLO
Oprah whole show is base for white females (soccer moms, house wife), whatever u wanna call it. I think that was real foul; oprah edit luda comment. She miss a big chance to show the world especially people who have a bad image of rappers or whatever the media feeds to white america; that most rappers are smart. Some college educated,married with children, doing non-profit work for the black community.to show a positive side of the rap community.she had fashion show, she had phat farm only for one minute but the white designers must have a 5 minute show to display their line of fashion.can't say oprah is compelete sell-out cause she did do alot for hurricane katrina victims, but she not serving the hip-hop community no justice.
Posted by DONCARLO
It would be easy for me to say fuc.k oprah so im going to say it fuc.k oprah. Luda monnwalking better than mike jackson right now and its because of stuff like the chappelle theory. Influence ruins careers. I love succesful people espcially ones who came up but when they betray the very people that helped them come up they worse than the man. A former whore/crack smoker abortionist got a lot of nerve telling us what we say is wrong. Look in the mirror broad. I usually have positive sh*t to say but today im feeling anti oprah. Once again fuc.k oprah and everything she stands for against hip hop. Fight for us !!
Posted by etheoryall
Damn.....oprah called this dudes bluff and he folded. Will the real men please stand up. Luda, i'm dissapointed in you, bro. Should of stuck to your comments. I co-sign kalliopeva... Oprah has a "yes mam" audience. She is constantly pushing them fags on us. Those lying stealing literary artist. Them ass designers or hair dressers. It's madness. Trying to make us feel sorry for her when she sheds a tear or comply with whatever she says because the audience applauds. Who the hell made her ambassador of what is right? really? i despise her show. I haven't watched it in years. Just caught snippets every now and then.
Posted by Sair
He is being an adult about the whole situation. He is basically agreeing to disagree. But, the show with rappers would be good to clear all of this mess up. I am tired of hearing about it. Hell white people f--k over us all of the time and we still support their clothing lines and everything. Not saying that we need to boycott white people, because we can't have anything without them and vice-versa.
Posted by SHANU_5
Speaking of boycotting "whiteman" and thier products. I want everybody here to go to (allhiphop) and read what the maker of "crystal" champagne said about hip hop artsit promoting his liquor. You will be... In a word. "disgusted" after all the hoopin and hollering we did to promote that drink. Damn man... We got played. Same way as timbaland boots did to us.
Posted by Sair
I definatley agree with ludacris 100%
Posted by Hardknockkiddo
I think luda handled this like a man.
Posted by Bigg Russ
Go luda for pointing out dat she still a great person n people shouldn't disrespect her based on his (luda's) opinion about one topic. Get em luda
Posted by mactownplaya
Back in the 90's the media was blowing things outta proportion, i had a view of rap that wasn't changed till i heard a neighbor playing "california love" and a few other songs i was hooked. Then within two years i hear on the radio about what happened in las vegas and man i barely got into 2pac's music and then someone snuffed him out. At least he was sitting on about 300 songs when he made his transition, but the point is i was listening too much to the media now i rarely do or look at it sideways. Luda props !
Posted by nsanelown
Sounds like he's copping out now..... Maybe oprah threatend to dave chappelle him lol
Posted by Scandalous
It's good that luda isn't promoting no b.s. With operah. However, operah knows that shes out of pocket. She also know that her show can give a great economic push to a product or service. Still, she ain't having no rappers on there. I mean it's not like hip hop is sufferring with out her support but, dag...e on with yo fat azz. Give people a chance to show case their art even if you don't dig thier stuff personnally. I'm sure that operah dissagrees with plenty of her guests so, why she gotta trip on the rappers?
Posted by DrFrankensence
I have a question? before we rip oprah to shreds, has anybody ordered the documentary by henry louis gates jr., this documentary is called "african american lives". If you didn't look into renting it at your public library, or order it, i preferred to order it, i think we should take a look at oprah before we make such comments, i dont watch oprah at all, but i respect her. However it might be true that she doesnt like m.c.'s, but i fondly recollect her stating that she loves hip hop and she just might be telling the truth from her side about the derogatory words spitting out of a lot bullsh*t rap artist now(luda not included) i mean we argue all day who talks trash and is wack, and a majority of us dogged fifty everyday, but now that someone big time said something about the state of hip hop we start bashing them, i think we might need to check ourselves on this matter.?????
Posted by BigO
O its not about her not liking hip hop. Its about here not wanting actors that are hip hop stars on her show. But by now im so past this, i dont even care what the woman thinks.
Posted by Kalliope4eva
Luda got pimp slapped without baby powder. Besides, if black people no longer watched oprah, she would not loose one penny. Oprah's success comes from appeasing white women(the majority). Point blank period. *oprah says phugg a rapper*
Posted by rdibiase
You would be surprised how many sisters support oprah.she would lose money fa sho.
Posted by pediewheatstraw
Ludacris got an point but what can you say to b*@#* like oprah they think they know everything about life! va wuz up!
Posted by tooty
Well, duh...you do degrade women! rappers' comments that they're not doing anything that hasn't been done before (nelly's comment on "the view")is no excuse for stupidity! and the women who have accepted their degradations by bobbing their heads and dancing to the beat, purchasing the recordings of the disrespectful rappers, and refusing to be corrected and informed about the inapproprateness and tastelessness are one of the main reasons that rappers don't care about their choice of words to refer to women. We are all ignorant of things, but to choose ignorance and try to defend it is ludacris! he is an uninformed black man who alongwith other rappers (male and female) has chosen to remain ignorant and insensitive to their mindless rhetoric. One of these reasons is because of those who have preceded them in life in the entertainment field and remain in the public eye having the audacity to defend degradation of women...they have profited from it (financially) so they can't see past the dollars! "hats-off" to oprah for saying what she said. Black people too often choose to allow their children to grow up with insensitivities to this and other things which cause ignorance to flourish. The saddest thing of all is that ludacris, ice cube, and many others are truly talented individuals who have been conned into thinking that they must remain ignorant of this because they have known this sort of common rhetoric among their peers throughout their lives. But it is time for them to see past the dollar si
Posted by myvoicemyvoice
I think luda showed he was a man how he handled thing. Now i have much respect for him.
Posted by BLACKBABY
Dat cd go hard!!!
Posted by oklahoma boi
So oprah’s an oreo… fools. Just because a person has class and acts accordingly, doesn’t make her an oreo. As a matter of fact, she’s a respectable business person, and i can say that confidently as a person who is no fan of oprah. Oprah has a valid point. I have grown up in the pits of the city, and i have listened to rap music since run dmc was the king of rock, so excuse me if i don’t speak ebonics. What sucks about rap music is that every hip hop song is the same song. Who ever is performing has a $200,000 car, a million dollars in jewelry, six houses, bank accounts, and big booty girls while representing the poor and oppressed in the ghetto. How can one keep it real while wearing more money in jewelry than the fools that buy their records will ever make in a lifetime? then there are the fools that think it’s okay to act in a manner that is portrayed in rap songs. Do yourself a favor, and listen to the songs because they have a good beat, but lift up your pants, get an education and be successful… be more like oprah, and instead of calling her an oreo, make her the stereo typical black person.
Posted by wubba
I think that he is right. I seen the episode and i feel as if oprah gave an opinion about his lyrics, that he should also give out an opinion. And that had never been stripped out the t.v. Show. But yes, the media blew it out of proportion. That i can say. But i still think that luda had a right to shout out an opinion or at least say something. Maybe next time she can think about what she say before she says it.
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Posted by loan officer
Honestly every thing is racist who cares what she is who cares if its a white guy doing this or that the point is is that rap is a culture an is some on can say o this music sucks then i should be abel to cuss up a religion or somthin its just not right and as for mr o pull up your pants and get an education i lisin to rap and wear a belt and will probibly make a sh.it load of money oh and im white 3 things that evry on is steriotyping whit ppl dont lisin to rap or oh all ppl that lisin to rap wear the pants at ther knees and ppl that lissin to rap wont have good jobs and will be poor for the rest of ther lives al i have to say is if oprah got to say her half out of curtasy somthing that a busness person or a high class sait would have would be to let luda say his half what she didint wont to be shown up that luda has done quit a lot off stuff for kenya but dosent flap at the gums about it all she does it for is so more ppl will respect her and wach her show every one has a voice and it should be herd
Posted by dude
First i want to start by saying that i love ludacris and i love the rap community with a passion. I think that oprah was in fact wrong for what she did. She had a chance to make the hip hop and rap world look sophisticated, but she chose not to. Ludacris seems like a really smart individual and i think, oprah was threatened by that. So she edited his comments off her show, so that people could get the feeling that he didn't defend his self. Rap music is not the only music that has issues. Country singers are going to rehab for cocaine addictions and gospel singers sometimes sing things that are not true. Oprah is entitled to her own opinion, but she shouldn't deny someone else to express theirs. Oprah can not stop ludacris from saying what he needed to say, just becasue his opinion didn't get aired on her show doesn't mean that it won't get aired. I think that when ludacris stated that he still had respect for her, showed how big of a man he is because he could have scandelized her name, but he chose not to. And that alone makes him more respectable than she could ever be. My comments better no get edited off this site....lol
Posted by Lover of All Music
I respect oprah for who she and what she has become, but just keep in mind that she has editors that takes things out of the of the show. Oprah said what she felt and ludacris and other people got it twisted, she said that she has had troble lising to his music she didn't that she didn't like it. Oprah is one of those women who mixes words with power so all the rappers and the rap community should just give oprah a break, oh yea oprah is not a racist and she dose have black people that watch her show because i'm one of them and my friends are to.
Posted by kristal
I have mad love for old girl she is my daughters roll modle other than these other people that end up in jail, how many women do you know that comes off a farm in mssissippi then has to go live with her mother and is molested from age 9 to 14 and let me add gets pregnet and her baby dies. How many people do you know that can survive that. So i love what she stands for because i stand right along with her
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I have mad love for old girl she is my daughters roll modle other than these other people that end up in jail, how many women do you know that comes off a farm in mssissippi then has to go live with her mother and is molested from age 9 to 14 and let me add gets pregnet and her baby dies. How many people do you know that can survive that. So i love what she stands for because i stand right along with her
Posted by
Oprah has a big heart and she knows what to do with it,she has been around for so long just lilke tina turnur.don't get me wrong i love ludacris but i think that he needs to clean out his ears and stop doggin on oprah for saying something about his music. Any one who watches oprah or dose not like oprah knew what she ment, and it's not about her being black or white it's about her saying something about his music and her having an opinon. So all i have to say is don't hate or talk about her if you don't know any thing about or understand what she's saying peace
Posted by shay

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