Jay-Z Disses Taylor Swift? Fans React to '100$ Bill' Song
Hip hop mogul Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter has been accused of ridiculing pop star Taylor Swift in a new song.
The Hollywood rapper, 43, produced "The Great Gatsby" soundtrack in which his song, "100$ Bill," is featured. Jay-Z makes reference to an infamous incident involving his best friend Kanye West and Swift in which the "Mercy" rapper stole the microphone from the singer, 23, at the 2009 MTV Music Awards.
"That cheese made us constipated couldn't tell us s---/Took that, Taylor Swift to a hundred ------- million, -----," Jay-Z raps.
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Fans flocked to social networking site Twitter to weigh in on the controversial song.
"Poor Taylor! She tried to put the humiliating ordeal behind her and now Jay-Z embarrasses her all over again," Trini tweeted.
"The song is dope! Wish ppl would chill out, Jay-Z did not diss Taylor he's simply pointing out how Kanye turned a negative into a positive," Shay tweeted.
"100$ Bill is rude to mock Taylor Swift, she's a talented singer and didn't deserve to be dissed by kanye in 2009 and again laughed at by Jay-Z in 2013," TimTam tweeted.
This is not the first time that Jay-Z has sparked controversy with his music. On April 11 he released a song entitled "Open Letter" which critics believe is a direct response to his recent Cuba scandal.
The rapper recently celebrated his fifth wedding anniversary with his wife Beyonce, 31, in Cuba despite a decades-long U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prohibiting most Americans from traveling to the island nation without permission from the federal government.
The song's lyrics alluded to the Hollywood power couple using their social ties to President Obama to gain entry into Cuba.
"I done turned Havana to Atlanta / Guayabera shirts and bandannas ... Boy from the hood got White House clearance," Jay-Z boasts in the song.
"Obama said, 'chill you gon' get me impeached' / You don't need this s--- anyway, chill with me on the beach'" he adds.
President Obama was forced to address the controversy after being implicated into the scandal in part due to Jay-Z's song.
"You know, this is not something the White House was involved with. We've got better things to do," Obama said during an interview on NBC's "Today" show.
