Oprah's New Clothes

Arguing with Oprah about her show, coincidentally called the Oprah Winfrey show, displays a certain amount of ignorance about the realities of life. It's the Oprah show. She owns it, produces it, directs it, makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year from it, has built an unrivaled empire based on it. You don't go to the Oprah show as a vehicle for yourself. That's not exactly how it works.

Ludacris learned the hard way that Oprah runs the Oprah show. She controls the content, the people, the editing. All of it. Start to finish. No questions. So when he went on the Oprah show, she didn't even want him to be on there. She finally let him on because he was in the movie. From what he says she wouldn't let him talk on the show and in the final edit cut out a lot of stuff he said. After the show she took him in a room and chastised him about his music degrading women and promoting violence. Luda took offense and now he's making a song about her. I know he's out doing his acting thing and wants all that to be separate from his rapping. He wanted to be looked at as an actor when he's out promoting his acting ventures. That's stupid, Luda.

The only reason you were even considered for the roles you get is because you were a famous rapper. You are not an acting talent. You are a rapper turned actor. Or rapper slash actor. You're always going to be a rapper unless you completely stop rapping, which you won't do. When you promote movies you request all you fans to see your movies and support you. That means all the fans you have from rapping, right? You want live off all the good things that come from rapping but get offended when when they talk about the bad stuff too. You can't do that.

Oprah doesn't like how rappers degrade women ("How you not gonna f*#$?/Bitch I'm me/ I'm the got damn reason you in VIP"). Oprah doesn't like how rappers exploit sex to sell records (Chinese splits,splits/ slide on down that pole, pole/ and feel this dick, dick/ get it out of control). Oprah doesn't like how rappers promote violence (hollow bullets, I pull it/ I'm about to live in vain/ and then I drill em, refill em/ make sure they feel the pain). Oprah doesn't like the vulgar language and the use of the "n word"( I be that nigga name Luda/aka L-O-V-A-L-O-V-A/ F&#*that s*&# nigga what you wanna say). Knowing all this I'm pretty sure she's not going to invite you or your fellow rapper on her show. Having you on there would be almost an endorsement of what you do. Promoting the very thing she not only doesn't like but she feels is ultimately adding to the troubles of the youth and therefore the world.

Now where as you can get on other shows because they need you and your audience for rating, Oprah left that point in her career a loooong time ago. She could care less about you bringing your audience to her show. She made like $300 million dollars from her show LAST YEAR! You and your petty audience, 1 million people maybe on a good day, are insignificant. She can do whatever the hell she wants to do. She has put herself in a position where her opinion is the only one that matters. Unlike you she doesn't have to go out and promote the things she does hoping it pays off.

I think Oprah did something that was very old school. She actually took him off to the side and told him how she felt about what he does. Not(I think) out of a hate, but out of a concern for what he is doing and how it affects people. Every young person has had an older person try to tell them about how the world works, how everything is not what you see and how you have to have a bigger perspective about life. Parents and family do that all the time. Try to give their opinions. Give you something to think about. Twenty years later it turns out they were right and you wish you had listened to them.

Instead of thinking the world revolves around him, Ludacris needs to concede his rapping does affect everything he does. Despite the mandatory 1 introspective song per album to show depth, most of his music is filled with violence and drugs and degrading women and all that. If you don't really want to listen, suck it up and don't go near Oprah again. Because we all know Oprah really is the center of the universe.