Ace Hood Defends Rick Ross' "U.O.E.N.O" Lyrics, "Bugatti" Rapper Says "Ross Ain't That Kind Of Guy"

Few people have been rushing to Rick Ross' aid in the wake of the controversy surrounding his guest verse on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." Until now, that is. Ace Hood (of "Bugatti" fame) defended Ross in a recent interview.

"Ross ain't that type of guy," Ace said in a radio interview with  Jenny Boom Boom. "You know what I mean? I've known Ross since I jumped in this music industry, he ain't mean it in no way that would be degrading to women or anything like that aura."

The controversy surrounds a few lines in Ross' guest verse that protestors believe condones date rape.

"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 says in the song.

"What they saying he said, he didn't say. You know what I'm saying, what they're saying. Bottle and champagne, something like that."

Ross has apologized twice for the words of the  song, on Q 93.3 in New Orleans and on Twitter.

"Woman is the most precious gift known to man," he said in an interview with the NOLA station. "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."

"I dont condone rape. Apologies for the lyric interpreted as rape," he later tweeted.

However, detractors are still calling for a boycott of Ross and asking Ross' sponsor Reebok to drop the star.

"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 has yet to comment.

What do you think? Should Reebok drop Rick Ross for his "U.O.E.N.O." lyrics? Should Ace Hood be defending the rapper?

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