Rick Ross Date Rape Lyrics: Rozay Adresses "UOENO" Controversy

Rick Ross has found himself in hot water as of late, and I'm not talking the surf off of South Beach. His guest verse on the song "U.O.E.N.O." (when said quickly it sounds like "You don't even know") raised the ire of many a woman's group with the date rape-y lyric of "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." Ross responded to the controversy in an interview with New Orleans radio station Q93.3. And Rozay made sure that everyone knows that he in no way condones rape.

"Woman is the most precious gift known to man," he said. "And there was a misunderstanding with a lyric...a misinterpretation where the term rape was used. I would never use the term rape, you know, in my lyrics. And as far as my camp, hip hop don't condone that, the streets don't condone that, nobody condones that."

Ross doesn't seem to mind the need to clarify his own words, as other rappers might. He feels that an artist has a responsibility to clear up misunderstandings.

"I feel like us being artists that's our job," Ross said. "To clarify the sensitive things and the things that we know that really need to be clarified such as a situation as this."

The explanation is unlikely to quell the controversy, as there have been calls to boycott Rick Ross. Several activists are calling on Ross-sponsor Reebok to drop him.

"It is totally appalling that Reebok would be featuring and paying a spokesman like Rick Ross who is proudly rapping about raping women," Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of the anti-sexism and women's rights website Ultraviolet, which started the petition to axe Ross.

"Reebok devotes a lot of time, energy and money to marketing to women - and now they're paying a man who is literally bragging about raping women. That tells women that Reebok isn't interested in our business. It tells us that Reebok is okay promoting rape culture and when one out of five women are the victim of an attempted or completed rape that has real life consequences."

Listen to the Ross interview below (talk on the controversy starts at 4:55):

What do you think? Is Ross's line defensible? Should Reebok end their sponsorship?

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