Kanye West sat down for an interview with 107.5 WGCI in Chicago on Wednesday (August 29). During the candid conversation, ‘Ye finally delivered an answer to the Trump question that seemingly stumped him on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this month.
Kimmel wanted to know what made Kanye think Trump cares about black people or people in general.
“I feel that [Trump] cares about the way black people feel about him, and he would like for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this,” he explained. “He will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he’s got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president.
“He knows that he can’t be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community. So, it’s something he’s gonna work towards, but we’re gonna have to speak to him.”
As the interview went on, Kanye also addressed his controversial interview on TMZ Live where he made the statement, “Slavery for 400 years sounds like a choice.”
“I never really approached or addressed the slavery comment fully, and it’s not something for me to over-intellectualize,” he said. “This is something about the fact that it hurt people’s feelings and the way that I presented that piece of information.
“I could present in a way more calm way, but I was ramped up. And I apologize. That happens sometimes when people are — I’m not blaming mental health, but I’m explaining mental health.”
He continued, “I don’t know if I properly apologized for how the slavery comment made people feel. I’m sorry for the one-two effect of the MAGA hat into the slave comment, and I’m sorry for people that felt let down by that moment.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he touched on the Pusha T and Drake beef, which culminated with “The Story Of Adidon,” the diss track heard around the world.
“It hits me in a really sensitive place,” he said, “Because you, like, hang around people and they come to your house and be around your family and this and that, and then they get mad about a beat and then send you purple demon emojis.”
He insists there isn’t any bad blood between them though.
“It ain’t no beef … We all got love for Drake,” he said. “We understand that he got upset about [Pusha-T’s diss track, “The Story of Adidon”]. I feel that it was insensitive for [Drake] to, in any way, stress me out in any way after TMZ, while I’m in Wyoming healing, pulling all the pieces together, working on my music.
“And you know, we’ll reconcile that one day because we got to, because we got work to do, and these voices is just too powerful.”
Part 2 of the Kanye West interview airs on WGCI on Thursday (August 30). [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
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Powerful voices ? Being used to do what again? Sell sweatshop clothes and make empty music about ooh girl you didn’t call me back ? Bye.
I love Ye. He’s family
YEEZY THE NEWEST BILLION DOLLAR BABY
Does that make you a pedo? I mean, look at you! You all on that billion dollar baby’s balls…cheerleader for free azz nukka!
Someone has obviously not heard the line from “What Would Meek Do” off of Daytona. Please X out of this Hip Hop Site
Must mean the promo season for that wack ass album is over. Next time Kanye, try better music. I guess since it’s been over 10 years since he made shit worth a damn, that might be too much to ask.
He actually apologized for hurting peoples feelings with the comment, not the comment himself. I thought he was 100% correct and accurate. You know cops profile you (and no one wants to admit this next bit) and rightfully so. 65% of inmates in the U.S. are only 15% of the populous. OK, they’re all getting thrown in jail because of racism. There are more African American millionaires, stars and entrepreneurs than there are in comparison to Latino Americans, and Latino Americans consist of a larger percent of the population. It’s really all the Dindu, Whiney, complaining about civil rights and slavery when all of that is generations in the past. It IS a choice. Look at where Kanye is now and where he came from. Look at all of his friends he went to kindergarten with. See where they’re at…
Boy, you sound stupid, but I’m gonna excuse you because I can tell you actually believe the BS that’s seeping from your brain. If I were to extend your logic, after 1865, African Americans should have (RIGHTFULLY, as you stated) profiled white people for the crimes of murder, torture, and human trafficking perpetrated against them for hundreds of years. But it would be insane to profile every white individual globally for the crimes of a minority within that group…You my friend, are a victim of misinformation, propaganda, and a white supremacy hoax. They got you…I wonder what insane act they’re slowly programming you to do…
Bro you seem misguided. Cops profile us and that’s why blacks make up so much of the U.S. prison population. When you specifically target one group of people heavier than others of course the prison population is going to be higher for those individuals. Moreover, when us as black people are relined off from living certain places, have credit that doesn’t take us as far as a white man’s, and have less social capital to take us places the prison population will be higher. I’m not taking personal responsibility or choice out of the equation, but your saying racism doesn’t at all account for the black existence and that’s definitely not true. And just because you see a good amount of famous black millionaires doesn’t make it indicative of where the black community as a whole is it. 15% of millionaires in America are white compared to 1.9% black and 2.3% Hispanic.
That answer was fucking stupid and it took him weeks to come up with. His answer shows that Trump has incentives to care what black people think about, but it doesn’t show that he cares about us, there’s a distinction. By that logic pretty much every president should’ve cared and we already know that some of them didn’t. Plus, Trump’s long history of racism should already tell everyone, including Kanye, that he doesn’t care about black people. I wish Ye would give me good music instead of nonsense rants.
Ye really exploited himself. Even the Kanye stans gotta admit. “Me and drake got work to do” FOH. You and terry played yourselves for quick sales and you didn’t sell lol. Used to love ye man – what happened
He got a point. We gotta forget the grown ass men crying in the streets over Kanye’s comments. Get these legends in the booth.
“Sometimes I don’t feel the love – like when I come to Chicago and I hear three Drake records and no Ye records” – Kanye west
Lets see Trump has no Black person appointed to no position in his cabinet or on his staff and the one he did he fired Trump history speak for it self so before you comment wit something lame please do some research
What? Off the top of my head Ben Carson is the Secretary of Urban Housing and Development. Black unemployment at all an time low, do your own research brother!
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Ye keep your head up! Imagine being a grown ass adult and weeping in bed because Kanye wore a MAGA hat. SMH!
Man Kanye should really just stfu I’m getting sick of this dude. He thought a detox in Wyoming would help, he’s worse than ever and his albums are only getting more trash.
The man isn’t a fan of Trump because he likes his policies? ‘Ye doesn’t give a shit about that. He just likes how Trump speaks his mind, because he’s like “Ye”, who Kanye himself has created into a character/brand. And when he was feeling down and out through his depression stage, that also coincided with Trump’s rise. Trump was a better ‘Ye, than Kanye. Of course Kanye would give props, especially since he lost his mojo.
People expecting some real introspective, political dialogue from ‘Ye will be mistaken. The man just likes the president’s style. Obama was objectively the better president, but he was too calm and mild mannered. Plus he called Kanye an ‘ass’, and he started favoring Kendrick Lamar. There are so many reasons apart from political issues as to why Kanye likes Trump