Rappers Ludacris and 50 Cent have ripped into Oprah Winfrey and she now has a fresh foe from the world of popular rap: Ice Cube.
“I’ve been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I’ve never been asked to participate,” Cube said in July’s issue of FHM.
Cube headed the cast in the 2002 movie “Barbershop,” the tagline of which is “Everyone’s gettin’ lined up.” Well, not necessarily for Winfrey’s show.
“For ‘Barbershop,’ she had Cedric the Entertainer and Eve on, but I wasn’t invited,” the 36-year-old rapper-actor told FHM. “She’s had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show. And if I’m not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?”
Cube, who has also starred in the movies “Friday” and “Three Kings,” said that Oprah seems to have a problem with hip-hop.
50 Cent seems to agree. Last month, New York-born 50 claimed Winfrey rarely invites rappers on her talk show. “I think she caters to older white women,” he said.
Ludacris , aka Chris Bridges, began the anti-Oprah sentiment in the May issue of GQ magazine, where he complained the talk show host was “unfair” to him when he appeared on her show with other cast members from best-picture Oscar winner “Crash.”
Nevertheless, Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist Gregory Kane expressed his view on BlackAmericaWeb.com that Winfrey’s booking policy represents nothing more sinister than common sense “demographics.”
