OPRAH Winfrey, who’s been accused of being anti-hip-hop, says that’s not true.

“I listen to some hip-hop … I got a little ‘Fiddy’ [50 Cent] on my iPod and I love [Fiddy’s] ‘In Da Club,’ I love it,” Winfrey recently told Power 105’s Ed Lover when she dropped by his show with her pal, Gayle King.

“Jay-Z, I love Kanye [West], Jay is one of my friends,” said Winfrey, who was promoting her upcoming ABC special, “Oprah Winfrey’s Legends Ball.” “I’m opposed to some of the music that offends my sensibilities, that’s when you’re degrading women, marginalizing women, but the beat I love,” Winfrey said.

“Years and years ago Quincy Jones and I had this conversation about the evolution of hip-hop and what it really means to our culture.

“Hip-hop is like jazz and gospel music,” Winfrey said.

“It evolved from people out of a form of protest, out of a form of expression. You can’t deny that, nor would I try . . .” Lover then asked Winfrey about her reported feud with hip-hop star Ludacris, who appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last year – and was ripped by Winfrey for his lyrics.

Ludacris then said afterward that Winfrey edited out many of his comments.

“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 May’s GQ magazine, referring to his role in the Oscar-winning movie, “Crash.” “We really do not have a beef,” Winfrey told Lover about Ludacris. “I don’t know how that all happened.

“Ludacris was on my show, and I had this conversation with him after the ‘Crash’ show and I said, ‘You are so smart, you’re really one of the brilliant guys … a lot of people listen to your music who aren’t as smart as you are.

‘So they take that stuff literally, when you are writing it for entertainment purposes – so I think there has to be a responsibility for it, just like I have to take responsibility for what I do and say on my stage every day.'”