Rick Ross Defends Controversial Trayvon Martin Lyric

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By Jason Newman
February 27, 2014 9:30 AM ET

Rick Ross has been forced to defend a controversial lyric involving Trayvon Martin found on his upcoming album Mastermind.

In new song "Black and White," Ross rhymes, "Forbes dot com, I'm the Teflon Don/ Too close to a n---a as a motherfucking bomb/Trayvon Martin, I'm never missing my target/Bitch n---as hating, tell me it's what I'm parking."

The rapper sent an email to Vibe clarifying his lyrics. "It's so important that today, on the two-year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, we never forget that tragedy," Ross said. "I'm never going to let the world forget that name. In my song 'Black and White' off Mastermind I say, 'Trayvon Martin, I'm never missing my target.' There I'm reminding people that if you're a black person or a person of any color for that matter in this country, you have to be accurate, whatever moves you make, stay accurate. Even when you're walking down the street, playing music from your car, you have to stay on point."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rick-ross-defends-controversial-trayvon-martin-lyric-20140227

Audio of the song (oddly the first result on YouTube for this song is the radio edit where the bad words are cut out)

The Trayvon reference is at 2:00.