Ashley Judd Responds To Hip-Hop 'Rape Culture' Backlash
April 9 2011, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
Ashley Judd has spoken out over the backlash she received following her 'hip-hop rape culture' comments, insisting she has no beef with the rap community.
As Breaking Celebrity News first reported, Judd slammed the likes of P Diddy and Snoop Dog in her controversial memoir All That Is Bitter And Sweet, for their "abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women as ho's".
But in an interview with website Global Grind she insists her comments were not meant to insult anyone.
"My intention was to support artists to know that they have so much power," she told music mogul Russell Simmons. "They make incredible life changing impressions, particularly on the young. And we have choices everyday with our expressions, either empower and celebrate people or to re-enforce inequality and degradation.
"There are elements, and that is the part that has been so distorted, what I'm being accused of is condemning rap and hip-hop as a whole, and the whole community and when they say community, they mean the fans, and African-Americans, it's become so generalized.