President Obama denied having a hand in helping Jay-Z and Beyoncé spend their fifth-year anniversary in Cuba.

"I wasn't familiar that they were taking the trip," President Obama said about Jay-Z on in interview with "Today" that aired Wednesday. "My understanding is I think they went through a group that organizes these educational trips down to Cuba. You know, this is not something the White House was involved with. We've got better things to do."

Jay-Z and Beyoncé were able to be cleared to travel to Cuba, which in the United States is only legal if cleared to do so for strictly educational purposes. When rapping about his trip to Cuba in "Open Letter," Jay-Z mentions how President Obama helped the famous couple to travel to their destination.

"Obama said chill "Boy from the hood, but got White House clearance, you gonna get me impeached ... We don't need this s**t anyway chill with me on the beach,'" was the line that snatched the attention of the U.S. government.

Sen. Marco Rubio and Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida issued letters of complaint.

"Numerous press reports described the couple's trip as tourism, and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda. We represent a community of many who have been deeply and personally harmed by the Castro regime's atrocities, including former political prisoners and the families of murdered innocents," one of the letters read.

Jay-Z would back off his comments and said the Treasury Department was who cleared himself and Beyoncé to travel to Cuba.