an honor or compliment of sorts, but she made no qualms about letting 50 know she knew he meant it as an insult:
Needless to say, Oprah’s name in the rap community has been a pretty ‘touchy’ area and her relationship and understanding of rap required a bit of a ‘fine-tuning’ (before she should ever make such a blanket statement about rap (even if on her very on stage and platform).
However, on the flip side of all this, and since all the videos above; Oprah invited Jay Z onto her show for an interview and it went over pretty well. Be (although Jay Z and Ludacris after two different styles of rappers) even Jay Z’s m.o is kin to the same rap m.o as the Ludacris in that (like Ludacris, although he wasn’t completely exempt from some concern in his lyrics), still, Oprah had the wrong rapper.
But when she interviewed rapper Jay Z, she seemed to have a better respect for him (it was very obvious-mostly because of his status in conjunction with his business acumen superseding a “gangster” rapper m.o. )
Although in his interview, he took a moment to educate and inform Oprah about rap music, no one was ever really sure if Oprah’s ‘blanket’ idea, gripe and opinion about rap was ever changed.
So, to see she went to see “Straight Outta Compton”–a movie ABOUT gangster rap, and the VERY gangster rappers she was talking about (when she directed her concern at Luda on her show), that was feat of sorts-and to publicly hear she has a better understanding of rap today (in 2015).
Oh…but just as Oprah has an understanding, lest we not forget we are in the age of social media. And other people (with the same ideas Oprah had about rap), have NOT forgotten about those very same guys from “Straight Outta Compton’s” past. And this came up:
