Jay-Z was criticized by lawmakers earlier this week for his trip to the communist island. Jay-Z brags about Cuba trip in rap

Rapper Jay-Z released a new track Thursday in which he boasts about his recent trip to Cuba with superstar Beyoncé and says that President Barack Obama told him he’d get him “impeached.”

“I done turned Havana into Atlanta,” Jay-Z raps in “Open Letter,” which he released Thursday. “[…] Boy from the hood, I got White House clearance… Politicians never did s—- for me except lie to me, distort history… They wanna give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a real crime.”


He later raps: “Hear the freedom in my speech… Obama said, ‘Chill you gonna get me impeached. You don’t need this s—- anyway, chill with me on the beach.’”

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The celebrity couple has been criticized by Florida GOP lawmakers Sen. Marco Rubio and Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for taking a trip to the communist island. American policy restricts travel to Cuba unless approved by the government.

“I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans. This communist talk is so confusing,” Jay-Z raps on the track, which is produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz and goes on to reference Bob Dylan’s song “Idiot Wind.” “[…] ‘Idiot Wind,’ the Bob Dylan of rap music. You’re an idiot, baby, you should’ve become a student. Oh, you gonna learn today.”

The U.S. Treasury Department told POLITICO on Wednesday that while it approved for the trip’s organizers to travel to Cuba as part of a cultural learning experience, they were unaware that the couple would be attending, as it is department policy not to require organizers’ to provide a list of travelers.

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Conservatives are already homing in on one of Jay-Z’s lyrics from the track: “I got White House clearance.”

The Republican National Committee wants answers from White House press secretary Jay Carney, who tried to distance President Barack Obama’s administration from the trip earlier this week. Carney said at a press briefing that the Treasury Department approves such travel visas — not the White House.

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“There seems to be some confusion regarding how Beyoncé and Jay-Z acquired visas to travel to Cuba. Just days ago, Jay Carney evaded questions on the celebrities’ trip,” RNC spokeswoman Alexandra Franceschi said in a public statement. “Any chance Jay Carney can clear up this confusion?”

Meanwhile, U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC co-founder and director Mauricio Claver-Carone noted that while Jay-Z released his song in which he declares “hear the freedom in my speech,” rapper Ángel Yunier Remón Arzuaga was jailed last month in Cuba for protest lyrics against the Cuban government.

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“It’s easy here in the freedom of the U.S. for Jay-Z to release a song full of bravado jabbing at his critics and President Obama, but in Cuba a young rapper Angel Remon Arzuaga, from the hip-hip duo ‘Los Hijos Que Nadie Quiso’ (‘The Unwanted Children’), is rotting away in prison for daring to criticize the Castro regime — that takes real bravado,” Claver-Carone told POLITICO.