Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba Trip UPDATE: Pitbull Defends Jay and Bey in "Open Letter (Freestyle)" [LISTEN]

The controversy surrounding Jay-Z and Beyonce's anniversary trip continues. In spite of the fact that the US Treasury says the trip was legal, people continue to protest what they see as implicit support of the Communist island nation. Now, Jigga and Bey have a prominent Cuban-American on their side. Rapper Pitbull released "Open Letter (Freestyle)" to lend his support to the superstar couple.

The track-which uses Jay-Z's "Open Letter" as a backdrop- goes into the history of the starined relationship between the US and Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Mariel boatlift (which brought a wave of Cuban immigrants to South Florida), Brian de Palma's Scarface, all the way up to the Elian Gonzalez fiasco, it's all there.

After dropping some knowledge, Pitbull takes on Jigga and Bey's accusers directly.

"Politicians love to hate you/ But then run away when it's time to debate you," he rhymes.

"Question of the night, would they have messed with Mr. Carter if he was white?"

After dropping the race-relations bombshell, Pitbull bows out with well wishes and blessings for Jay-Z and Beyonce.

"Happy 5th year anniversary/ Jay and B, don't worry it's on me."

The whole mess started when Florida representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart penned a letter to the US Treasury demanding to know whether Jay-Z and Beyonce entered Cuba legally. The letter had some choice words for the couple.

"Despite the clear prohibition against tourism in Cuba, numerous press reports described the couple's trip as tourism and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda," the letter said. "US dollars spent on Cuban tourism directly fund the machinery of oppression that brutally represses the Cuban people."

Senator Marco Rubio added fuel to the fire by publicly bashing the duo on Twitter.

However, the Treasury released a statement saying that the trip was on the up-and-up.

"It is our understanding that the travelers in question traveled to Cuba pursuant to an educational exchange trip organized by a group authorized by OFAC to sponsor and organize programs to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba," Alastair M. Fitzpayne, assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Treasury Department, wrote in a response to Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who had helped pen the original letter questioning the legality of Beyonce and Jay-Z's Cuba trip.