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Ice Cube is the third rapper to make public his beef with talk show Queen Oprah Winfrey, the Associated Press reports.

Ice Cube follows Ludacris and 50 Cent who have also made public their distaste for Oprah.

“I’ve been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I’ve never been asked to participate,” he said to FHM magazine, citing movies like ?Barber Shop? where other actors in the movie were invited on Oprah?s show, but he was not.

Last month, 50 Cent complained Oprah rarely has rappers on her show, while Ludacris claimed Oprah was ?unfair? to him when he appeared on a show of hers with the fellow starts of his film ?Crash.?

Oprah has defended herself from the rappers? claims.

“I listen to some hip-hop. You know, I’ve been accused of not liking hip-hop and that’s just not true. I got a little 50 (Cent) on my iPod. I really do. Love ‘In Da Club.’ … Love that, and you know, love Jay-Z, love Kanye (West), love Mary J. (Blige),” she said in an interview on a New York City radio station earlier this month.

Rapper Ludacris appeared in a New York courtroom yesterday to face the charges that he and rapper Kanye West stole another song without consent for their song, “Stand Up,” E! Online reports.

BMS Entertainment/Heat Music LLC sued the two musicians alleging they stole lyrics from the IOF song “Straight Like That.”

EMI April Music Publishing, distributor Universal Music, Video Distribution Corp. and Def Jam Music Group are also named in the suit.

The charges are centred around the phrase “like that” which is used many times in both songs. Ludacris and West are both expected to testify in the case, which is expected to last a week or two.