Add Quentin Tarantino to the ever-growing database of Kanye West enemies.
In a caller interview with Piers Morgan, West complained that Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” was based connected an thought that the Oscar victor stole from West. He claims that aft collaborating with Jamie Foxx connected the 2005 opus “Gold Digger,” which featured Foxx’s vocals and sampled Ray Charles’ “I Got a Woman.” West said helium pitched Foxx and Tarantino the thought for a slavery-themed euphony video for the song. West alleges that immoderate of his ideas for that video were yet utilized successful Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.”
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“Tarantino tin constitute a movie astir slavery wherever – really him and Jamie, they got the thought from maine due to the fact that the thought for ‘Django,’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino arsenic the video for ‘Gold Digger,’” West said. “And past Tarantino turned it into a film.”
If immoderate of that really happened, West appears to person forgiven Foxx for it. West precocious praised Foxx successful a now-deleted Instagram station wherever helium asked his followers a hypothetical question astir who should play him successful a movie.
“My prime is Jamie Foxx,” helium wrote. “One of the top geniuses.”
The comments are the latest examples of West’s progressively erratic nationalist behavior. In caller weeks helium has travel nether occurrence for anti-semitic comments and societal media posts, agreed to purchase the right-wing societal media website Parler, and claimed that George Floyd’s decease was the effect of a fentanyl overdose alternatively than constabulary brutality. In the interview, helium appeared to apologize for immoderate of that behaviour earlier yet directing attraction towards his governmental ambitions.
“I conscionable privation to accidental that it’s incorrect to clasp an apology hostage and I gotta fto spell of that, and escaped myself of the trauma and say, ‘Look, I’m conscionable gonna springiness it each up to God close now,’” helium said. “And accidental to those families that I hurt, you know, I truly privation to springiness you guys a large hug. And I privation to accidental I’m atrocious for hurting you with my comments. And I privation to connection it successful not similar a governmental way, but successful a statesmanlike way, which means what I knew a president to beryllium erstwhile I was increasing up.”
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