The Daily Show host Trevor Noah caught Kanye West’s wrath earlier this week after he expressed his concerns over the way he’s treating his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, especially now that their divorce is final and she’s moved on with Saturday Night Live actor Pete Davidson.
Calling Kanye’s behavior “belligerent,” Noah suggested he was worried about the safety of Kardashian, Davidson and the four children she shares with Ye. In response, Kanye called the South Africa native a “koon.”
Shortly before Kanye West was banned from Instagram from 24 hours, he deleted the deprecating post but not before someone screenshot Noah’s response. In a lengthy comment, Noah kindly talked about the profound impact Kanye has had on him over the years but didn’t excuse his behavior. If anything, he expressed how worrisome he finds it.
“There are few artists who have had more of an impact on me than you Ye,” he wrote. “You took samples and turned them into symphonies. You took your pain and through the wire turned it into performance perfection. I thought differently about how I spend my money because of you.
“I learned to protect my child-like creativity from grown thoughts because of you, shit I still smile every time I put on my seatbelt because of you. You were a serious rapper who also knew when not to take himself seriously. You effortlessly brought comedy into music and made us all smile when we rapped along.”
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He continued, “You’re an indelible part of my life Ye. Which is why it breaks my heart to see you like this. I don’t care if you support Trump and I don’t care if you roast Pete. I do however care when I see you on a path that’s dangerously close to peril and pain. You have every right to fight for your family.
“But you have to know the different between that and fighting your family. I’ve woken up too many times and read headlines about men who’ve killed their exes, their kid and then themselves. I never want to read that headline about you.”
During Noah’s original commentary on the Kardashian-West divorce, he drew parallels to his stepfather shooting his mother and urged people to stop joking about it, likening the situation to standing by and watching a car crash when everyone saw it coming.
In Noah’s response to Ye’s post, he considered he could be misreading the entire situation but is willing to take the risk.
“If you’re just joking about it all and I’m an idiot for caring, then so be it. But I’d rather be an idiot who spoke up and said something to you in life than the cool guy who said nothing and then mourns for you in prison or the grave. Oh and as for Koon, clearly some people graduate but we still stupid.
“Don’t ever forget, the biggest trick racists every played on black people was teaching us to strip each other of our blackness whenever we disagree. Tricking us into dividing ourselves up into splinters so that we would never unite into a powerful rod. (I can’t front though, Koon Baya is also funny as shit.) Look after yourself my brother. Hopefully one day we’ll all be laughing about this.”
Read Noah’s response below.
Trevor Noah is an elegant, graceful, well-spoken, warm, intelligent gentleman. Kanye is none of those things.
Y’all “people” kill me. I wish we could see real life pictures of people who post comments on this site. I would not be surprised. & Trevor is yes in fact a “KOON” for this. How can he mourn and feel so sorry for a grown man he doesn’t even know or is his friend or even related to??? He’s just tryna raise his ratings. Like I’m no Kanye fan but everyone got a right to say how they feel
The answer to your question is “empathy.” Google the word.
I don’t have empathy for Trevor for allowing himself to be used as a liberal media spokesman. Kanye is his own person. Trevor is basically participating in a minstrel show organized by the white executives at comedy central
Stop frontin, you’re a troll conservative.
stop frontin, you’re a troll conservative.
Didn’t mean that toward you.
“Everybody gotta right to say how they feel”. … I agree, which means the rest of us are free to point out what a basket case Kanye West has become over the last 10 years. Dude is in his 40s running around throwing a public temper tantrum because his wife left him, when any man with an ounce of integrity would have handled this in private. Nobody likes a Middle Aged man suffering from teenage angst.
“How can he mourn and feel so sorry for a grown man he doesn’t even know or is his friend or even related to???” — because he’s an adult, maybe?
You sound utterly ignorant
What you mean “y’all people?” Really, do you have to say it like that? SMH. You’re not helping your case here.
How is Trevor a sellout? Shit, I feel the same damn way about Yeezy! His billionaire mouth can get shut up if he comes at the wrong entertainer. And I don’t mean by fighting, I mean by blackballing. And he’s saying “liberals” are brainwashed and all that, what does his stance look like? Ye is the true definition of a conservative KOON.
So we’re supposed to feel for Trevor Norah? The man who pushes lies and deception for a living? Man man should of shut up about Kanye’s personal life. Mainstream media loser.
Kanye is a free thinker now. He’s allowing artists to express their grievances and isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind including calling out those who poison other minds. Trevor is some unfunny hack influenced by the liberal media. Kanye is the definition of freedom of speech
Of course you support Kanye, you’re a conservative. Stop looking at everything through an ideological lens fool because the moment Kanye doesn’t support Trump, dumbasses like you turn on him. Also Kanye isn’t a stupid conservative, he just ignorantly support Trump.
You are a political puppet Trevor, paid well to spread misinformation. You keep doing as you’re told Trevor, so you don’t lose your position in the hollyweird hierarchy. You are not on Kanye’s level. Kanye makes you look like an even bigger puppet trying to impress your handlers. Was this broadcasted on nbc? LOL
shut up
You support this idiot Trevor Noah? Is it because the tv tells you to? Do you think for yourself, or have you not given that any thought yet? LOL
N****,Shut up
Standing ovation for Trevor
There’s the Big Lie even on this website now. I admire the conservatives’ efforts, they have an Ill will to push their big lie, which is just NOTHING. But that’s where I draw the line, because they’re pushing nothing but a lie. I don’t like folks that are too liberal either. But I also am aware that conservatives have started pushing an agenda called “The Big Lie” ever since Obama became president. You guys are saying Trevor is being controlled by liberals? No, Trevor IS a liberal. And I like his values. I might not agree with everything he believes in, but that’s what used to be so appreciated when I was coming up, our own individuality. NO one person agrees on EVERYTHING. Thanks Trevor, for showing true concern for your brother, who is absolutely going bananas on tv and losing his entire base because he things he’s “free” Nobody on this earth is “free” to say whatever they want (without consequences, that is).
How would u feel if another man was fucking your wife publicly. Pete Davidson is the definition of scum and will rot in hell for adultery. Stop sticking up for this woman who is playing into the narrative