“Like Holocaust is Jews, slavery is blacks”, West said. Instead, she’s protecting him.
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“‘I hurt someone by having my own opinion?'” West responded, according to T.I.’s quote. “I said ‘so how you feel about the travel ban?’ He said ‘what’s the travel ban?'”
Kanye West’s sudden embrace of President Trump sent a lot of the rapper’s progressive friends into orbit.
The hitmaker who is married to reality star Kim Kardashian, has bragged of his brand’s success and its lucrative business.
Kanye West has sparked a massive backlash after saying 400 years of slavery “sounds like a choice” in another set of controversial remarks.
Fortunately, TMZ staffer Van Lathan was on hand to school Kanye in a bit of, y’know, actual, factual thought rather than total merit-free bullshit.
Kanye added: ‘Because Trump is a human being also and he is in a very powerful position.
“We need to have open discussions and ideas on unsettled pain… to make myself clear”, he wrote. Kanye is the type of person that if you tell not to do something, he’s going to go at it even harder. Stopping by The Breakfast Club Wednesday morning, the rapper sat down with DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God and, around the 8-minute mark, explained how the song came together after a “four-hour long conversation”. The results are interesting given the recent transformation of Kanye West, who posted a picture of himself wearing a Make America Great Again hat on his Twitter account last week.
Even Donald Trump seemed to abandon West, 40, as the president fell silent on the issue.
Obama, in off-record small talk with a reporter in 2009 that leaked, called West a “jackass” after the rapper disrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to say that Taylor Swift did not deserve her prize.
“Let me tell you something, at the end of the day we all got lucky and plucked out our hoods and live these incredible lives, but you can not be so far in your bubble to think that you are not a part of what this history is.”, she said. He added: “They cut our tongues so we couldn’t communicate to each other”.
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