Recently, civil rights leader and entertainer Harry Belafonte accused some artists, including Jay-Z and Beyonce of "turning their backs on social responsibility." It's in moments like these where Belafonte's words ring loudly and undeniably true. For the all the financial success attained by Jay-Z, there has been no effort on his part to elevate his music personally or hip-hop more broadly. Although "Jigga" is firmly ensconced in middle age, he still gleefully and carelessly advances his music career calling women Bs and Hs; and men Ns like his 20-something counterparts.

It wasn't the crack. It was the job. "You become addicted to the feeling, the uncertainty and adrenaline and danger of that lifestyle," Jay-Z tells Oprah Winfrey in the October issue of O Magazine of his former life as a drug dealer.

Rapper Jay-Z while performing at an Obama campaign rally in Ohio Monday substituted the name "Mitt" for the word "b-tch" in the lyrics to his song "99 Problems." For those unfamiliar with the song, the real lyrics are, “If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a b-tch ain't one."