London
(ANI):
Rapper
Jay-Z
has
rubbished
all
criticism
of
hip-hop
by
well-known
African-Americans
who
believe
the
genre
degrades
their
ethnicity.
The
superstar
said
the
protests
were
only
for
"publicity
purposes".
Hip-hop
recently
generated
a
lot
of
disapproval
from
prominent
black
celebrities
like
Oprah
Winfrey
and
Bill
Cosby,
who
say
it
is
misogynistic
and
frequent
uses
the
racial
N-word.
An
annoyed
Cosby
even
went
on
to
pull
off
a
hip-hop
album
that
was
"without
the
profanity,
misogyny,
violence
and
braggadocio".
However
Jay-Z
thinks
otherwise.
The
hitmaker
says
rap
portrays
important
issues
in
its
own
style.
The
Daily
Express
quoted
him
as
saying:
"Put
it
like
this;
everything
is
birthed
from
somewhere
real,
right?
These
emotions
and
this
anger
and
this
angst
in
reality
rap
is
coming
from
a
real
place."
"People
in
those
circles
try
to
dismiss
it,
buy
you
can't
because
it's
part
of
culture.
They
only
attack
hip-hop
because,
and
I
hate
to
sound
like
a
cynic,
but
this
is
all
done
for
publicity
purposes,
right?
You
don't
attack
the
real
issue
-
you
attack
the
thing
that's
popular."