Oprah Winfrey talks to EURweb's Cherie Saunders at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif. Jan. 6, 2011
*Once upon a time, Oprah Winfrey hated hip hop.
The daytime queen refused to have any rapper appear on her talk show. Much of her animosity was aimed at gangsta rap – with its glorification of violence and ample use of the N-word, B-word and H-word, among other choice language.