Kanye West is asserting that he birthed the concept for filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film “Django Unchained.”
Throughout an interview Friday with broadcaster Piers Morgan, the rapper, who’s legally often known as Ye, mentioned that he had initially shared the premise for the slavery-themed blockbuster because the idea for a music video.
“The concept for ‘Django’ I pitched to [actor] Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino because the video for ‘Gold Digger,’” the rapper mentioned, referring to his hit 2005 tune. “After which Tarantino turned it into a movie.”
Foxx appeared each on the Grammy-winning monitor and in its Hype Williams-directed music video, which ended up centering round a vastly totally different topic than “Django,” with pinup fashions posing for fictitious journal covers. He would go on to star within the Tarantino movie years later alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington.
Ye’s assertion got here after Morgan requested if he noticed any limits to free speech, amid controversy over the rapper sporting a “White Lives Matter” shirt at Paris Trend Week earlier this month. “White Lives Matter” is categorized as a hate slogan by the Anti-Defamation League, whereas the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart calls it “a racist response to the civil rights motion Black Lives Matter.”
The “Stronger” musician has additionally come underneath fireplace for latest antisemitic social media posts that resulted in his suspension from Twitter and Instagram.
Though Ye didn’t elaborate additional on his purported pitch to Tarantino, he introduced up “Django” to argue that free speech exists with context, offering the instance of how DiCaprio used racial slurs within the movie however was not labeled a racist.
Tarantino and Foxx haven’t publicly responded to Ye’s claims.
Launched on Christmas Day 10 years in the past, “Django″ quickly turned Tarantino’s highest-grossing movie. The critically acclaimed film follows a freed slave (performed by Foxx) who units out to rescue his spouse from a brutal plantation proprietor in Mississippi with the assistance of a German bounty hunter.