Kanye West Says Quentin Tarantino Ripped Off ‘Django’ Movie Idea From Him

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Kanye West is affirming that helium birthed the conception for filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 movie “Django Unchained.”

During an interrogation Friday with broadcaster Piers Morgan, the rapper, who is legally referred to arsenic Ye, stated that helium had firstly shared the premise for the slavery-themed blockbuster due to the fact that the thought for a euphony video.

“The conception for ‘Django’ I pitched to [actor] Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino due to the fact that the video for ‘Gold Digger,’” the rapper stated, relating to his deed 2005 music. “And past Tarantino became it close into a movie.”

Foxx regarded some connected the Grammy-prevailing euphony and successful its Hype Williams-directed euphony video, which ended up centering astir a massively 1 of a benignant trouble than “Django,” with pinup models posing for fictitious mag covers. He mightiness determination connected to personage wrong the Tarantino movie years aboriginal alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington.

Ye’s assertion came aft Morgan asked if helium noticed immoderate limits to escaped speech, amid controversy implicit the rapper carrying a “White Lives Matter” garment astatine Paris Fashion Week successful beforehand this month. “White Lives Matter” is categorized arsenic a hatred slogan by utilizing the Anti-Defamation League, portion the Southern Poverty Law Center calls it “a racist absorption to the civilian rights question Black Lives Matter.”

The “Stronger” instrumentalist has besides travel nether occurrence for latest antisemitic societal media posts that led to his suspension from Twitter and Instagram.

Although Ye didn’t intricate likewise connected his purported transportation to Tarantino, helium added up “Django” to reason that unfastened code exists with context, imparting the illustration of the mode DiCaprio utilized radical slurs wrong the movie nevertheless turned into nary longer labeled a racist.

Tarantino and Foxx person present not publically responded to Ye’s claims.

Released connected Christmas Day 10 years ago, “Django″ rapidly became Tarantino’s highest-grossing movie. The earnestly acclaimed movie follows a freed enslaved (played by means of Foxx) who units retired to rescue his woman from a brutal plantation proprietor successful Mississippi with the assistance of a German bounty hunter.