I been at Oprah's neck since she had that Crash cast on her set back in the early 2000s and treated Cube/Luda/etc like they were criminals.
Cube isn’t the only MC that has gone toe to toe with Winfrey over the years. It appeared that ATL legend Ludacris also wasn’t on good terms with Winfrey when he appeared on her show on October 6, 2005, with castmates to help garner promotion for their film Crash. Winfrey singled Ludacris out and chastised him for using the words “bytches” and “ho’s” in his rhymes, which had nothing to do with the film.
Ludacris also noted that the chastisement continued even after the show went off the air. He accused Winfrey of editing out his rebuttals and comments and leaving her own unedited. “Of course, it’s her show, but we were doing a show on racial discrimination, and she gave me a hard time as a rapper when I came on there as an actor,” he said in an interview with GQ. “It was like being at someone’s house who doesn’t want you there.”