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         White House denies Jay-Z rap claim about Cuba visit

You usually would prefer not to get into a rap competition with Jay-Z. 

Be that as it may the White House on Thursday confronted the mega-specialist after he discharged a track proposing he got "White House freedom" for his disputable outing to Cuba with wife Beyonce. 

Jay Carney, President Obama's press secretary, absolutely denied the case --repeating that the Treasury Department handles leeway. 

"I conjecture nothing rhymes with Treasury," Carney clowned, before illuminating: "The White House, from the president on down, had nothing to do with anyone's ... go to Cuba. That is something that Treasury handles." 

Jay-Z discharged the track Thursday not long after coming back from Cuba, an excursion that drew reaction from Cuban-American officials in Congress who addressed how the couple got consent to fly out to the comrade run island. 

The rapper bragged finally about the visit, recommending Obama was included. 

"I done transformed Havana into Atlanta," he rapped. "Kid from the hood, yet got White House freedom." 

He proceeded: "Politicians never did s---for me with the exception of mislead me, twist history, wanna give me imprison time and a fine. Fine, gave me an chance to carry out a true wrongdoing. ... Obama stated, 'Chill you gonna get me impeached.' You don't need this s---at any rate, chill with me on the beach.'" 

The track brought about a peculiar scene at Thursday's White House instructions, as a correspondent read resoundingly the verses to Carney. Jay-Z and Beyonce are both Obama supporters. 

"It's a melody," Carney stated. "The president's not speaking with Jay-Z over this excursion." 

Numerous Florida officials had lashed out at the couple, and the management, over the excursion. U.S. law boycotts tourism by Americans to Cuba, however there are exemptions for certain social treks. 

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., stated in an articulation prior without much fanfare: "U.S. law obviously boycotts tourism to Cuba by American nationals since it furnishes cash to a barbarous, abusive and dangerous administration. Since their origin, the Obama Administration's 'people to people' customary trade projects have been misused by travelers who have no investment in the Cuban individuals' luxury and either don't acknowledge or don't give a second thought that they're basically subsidizing the administration's orderly trampling of individuals' human rights." 

The Treasury Department elucidated in a letter prior without much fanfare that the couple headed out to Cuba under a "training trade outing" arranged by another assembly. The branch stated it handles approving the aforementioned outings.