Jay-Z’s day job can’t be that hard if two news anchors can quickly bust a rhyme back at the rapper.
After releasing his latest rap, “Open Letters,” this week – a rebuttal to all the Republican politicians in Washington upset by his recent excursion to Cuba to celebrate his fifth anniversary with wife Beyoncé – Fox News’ Dana Perino and CNN’s Jake Tapper both decided to come up with their own rhymes on their shows Thursday.
Perino, or as she calls herself “Tiny-D Day-P,” busted out in song on her show “The Five,” admitting that she’s “white like Casper” but can still “bust funky fresh rhymes in a major way.”
After Jay-Z bragged in his own song he “done turned Havana into Atlanta,” Perino answered back, “If you love Castro stick with Jay-Z,” referring to the former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The Fox News host even goes after Queen B in her rap: “If you don’t think Beyoncé fears me, go ahead and ask her,” she boasts.
For his rap, Tapper poked fun at White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s statements during his press conference earlier in the day, in which Carney defended a lyric about the White House in Carter’s rap by saying, “I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury.”
“Got cleared by Treasury. We can travel at your leisure, B,” Tapper said on his new show “The Lead,” before clarifying that the ‘B’ stood for Beyonce, not Barack.
The legality of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba has been questioned ever since Florida Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart brought light to the issue by writing a letter to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department later replied back, claiming that the Carter’s trip was authorized for “educational” purposes.
Watch ‘Tiny-D” and Tapper show up Jay-Z with their new rap songs below.
