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Rick Ross: 'My song isn't about rape, I would never use that word in my music'

Rap superstar Rick Ross has hit out at claims that some of his lyrics appear to promote rape and explained that he 'would never' support that behaviour.

His track 'U.O.E.N.O.' features the lines, "Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it", and it came under fire for such suggestive content, but Ross has now confessed that it's a bad misunderstanding:

"It was misunderstanding with a lyric, a misinterpretation where the term 'rape' wasn't used. And I would never use the term 'rape' in my records."

Ross added that he wanted to "reach out to all the queens that's on my timeline, all the sexy ladies, the beautiful ladies that had been reaching out to me with the misunderstanding, we don't condone raping – I'm not with that."

Referring to the public backlash over the song's lyrics, the star confessed that as an artist you have to be socially responsible so he doesn't mind clarifying the meaning: "I feel like us being artists, that's our job to clarify the sensitive things and the things that we know really need to be clarified, such as a situation like this."

 

 

 

 

Listen to 'U.O.E.N.O.' here: