[Exquisite5]

It's Oprah's show and see no reason why she should be chastized for not liking hip hop, or not inviting hip hop artists, or talking bad about hip hop or whatever.

It's her show! Oprah could spend all day every day using her show to "vent" for the daily hour of "what Oprah hates" and would still owe not one of "the hated" an obligation to allow that particulare "hated" to come on her show and talk to her about why she shouldn't hate them.

I've seen this topic on other boards/email lists and I'm like <<eye rolling>> ..who cares? Does Oprah look like she likes hip-hop? I mean, this is the woman who was not even cool enough to get the Beyonce booty hop down good-- that was like a major event in her life. Somehow I think hip hop has a bit too much flava for her....like it does for my mom.

Oprah no more "ought" to have random hip hop artists on her show than Phil Donahue ought to have had Ozzie Osbourne on his.