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Tuesday an interview with Charlamagne The God, the host of the radio show The Breakfast Club, and Kanye West was published. The one on one interview is almost two hours long and was unlike any other Kanye interview.
During the lengthy one-on-one interview, Charlamagne asks Kanye about Trump, his feud with Taylor Swift and of course his relationship with Beyonce. The interview sparked lots of conversations and is trending number one on YouTube with over 4.1 million views at time of publishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxwfDlhJIpw
The interview was posted during a controversial time for Kanye. He has tweeted out his support for President Trump, posted screenshots of his private messages with John Legend and claimed that slavery was a choice for African-Americans.
Charlamagne talked to Cosmopolitan to fill in the gaps about his interview with Kanye, answer some questions and mostly talk about his opinion on Kanye. He told the magazine that Kanye asked Charlamagne to do the interview back in February, but it didn’t actually happen until a few weeks ago on April 18. “Kanye hired the camera crew. He [edited and] put that whole thing together, 100 percent,” Charlamagne said.
The interview took place before Kanye’s Trump tweets and his photos wearing a Make America Great Again hat. “So my Trump questions were based off the rant he did last year at a concert when he was saying how he would’ve voted for Trump, and his appearance at Trump Tower,” He said.
Charlamagne then voiced his opinion on what he thinks of Kanye’s current Trump tweets.
“You can have freedom of thought. You can have freedom of speech. But you need to be informed about what you’re cosigning. I don’t think that he’s informed about Trump’s policies and ideologies. Trump’s not a rapper, bro. He’s the President of the United States of America, and he’s suppressing and marginalizing a lot of the people that you claim to care about. If you care about those people the way that you say you do, then you wouldn’t be so quick to put your arm around him and say, ‘I love him. This is my brother.'”
“Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We’ve been loving our oppressors for a long time and nothing has changed — that love has to be reciprocated. I feel like right now this truce is one-sided. I don’t see [Trump] doing anything but using Kanye West to sell hats and normalize hate.”
He made it clear that he “feel empathy” for Kanye and is “not here to judge” but will not tolerate ignorance.
When Cosmopolitan asked him about Kanye’s saying slavery being a choice while at TMZ he didn’t hold back and called them “ridiculous.” “Slavery was definitely not a choice in any way shape or form,” he stated.
After his comments went viral for being ridiculous (seriously #IfSlaveryWasAChoice was trending on Twitter) Kanye further explained what he meant, and that black people are choosing to be mentally enslaved.
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Charlamagne thinks Kanye’s platform is too big to have huge missteps like this. “There’s a way to express people being in psychological bondage and not dismiss 400 years of literal, physical slavery,” he said.
He then told Cosmopolitan a metaphor that he tells Kanye. “Kanye’s into fashion, so this is what I tell Kanye all the time: when you’re in your factory and you have people in there cutting fabric, those people are measuring twice so that they only have to cut once, because you can’t waste fabric,” he said. “That’s how I tell him he has to be with his thoughts. You have to measure twice, so you can cut once.”
Charlamagne actually told Kanye what he thought about his stint at TMZ. “I told him he looked like a damn fool on TMZ and that Van was 100 percent correct,” Charlamagne is referencing TMZ employee Van Lathan who dragged Kanye for his slavery comment. “I told him to go take a nap. I’m dead serious.”
He hopes this is just a phase for Kanye, but makes it clear that Kanye’s behavior isn’t a publicity stunt. “He really believes this love campaign that he’s on,” he said insinuating Kanye’s mother’s death is the fuel behind the fire for this lifestyle change.
“I think his way of healing is to love everybody, but everybody is not worth your love,” Charlamagne said. “You’ve got to protect your heart.”
