As a follow-up to my co-blogger’s recent posts on all the brouhaha surrounding Jay-Z and Beyonce’s recent trip to Cuba, here are the lyrics of Jay-Z’s response to Miami Republicans, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, who, according to Caribbean 360, “have been feeling the sharp edge of the music mogul’s talented tongue.” Jay-Z’s stinging rap—“Open Letter”—targets his critics and suggests that he had been accused of breaking the law because of his friendship with President Barack Obama. The song was released online and has already attracted over 500,000 views.
Here are the full lyrics of “Open Letter”:
“I done turned Havana to Atlanta
Guayabera shirts and bandanas
Every time you think they got me
I switch the planna
Bulletproof this, radio scanners
Ballin’ ’til they ban us
You gettin’ too much bread, they try to jam you
Boy from the hood
But got White House clearance
Sorry y’all, I don’t agree with y’all appearance
Politicians never did s**t for me
Except lie to me, distort history
Wanna give me jail time and a fine
Fine, let me commit a real crime
I might buy a kilo for Chief Keef
Out of spite, I just might flood these streets
Hear the freedom in my speech
Got an onion from Universal, read it and weep
Would’ve brought the Nets to Brooklyn for free
Except I made millions off it, you f***in’ dweeb
I still own the building, I’m still keeping my seat
Y’all buy that bulls**t
You’d better keep y’all receipt
Obama said ‘Chill, you gonna get me impeached’
But you don’t need this s**t anyway
Chill with me on the beach
Ya’ll almost want to start a revolution
You know whenever I’m threatened, I start shooting back
Catch a body, head to Houston
I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans
This communist talk is so confusing
When it’s from China, the very mic that I’m using
Idiot wind, the Bob Dylan of rap music
You’re an idiot, baby, you should become a student
Oh, you gonna learn today
Where the f**k have you been
The world’s under new management
The new role model, f**k this Zoolander s**t.”
Listen to the song here:
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