Posted on 10/17/2022 8:48:12 PM PDT by TigerClaws
After Kanye West unleashed more than three and a half hours of anti-Semitic rants, untruths about George Floyd and hostile comments toward everyone from Trevor Noah to Diddy during a Sunday appearance on Revolt.TV’s “Drink Champs,” interviewer N.O.R.E. apologized for using his platform to have such views aired during a call to the”Breakfast Club” on Monday morning.
N.O.R.E. (real name: Victor Santiago), who challenged West only occasionally during the interview, was on the receiving end of many angry social media posts for his tacit acceptance of many of the comments.
“I made a mistake doing the Kanye interview,” he said. “I could come out here and say this was Kanye’s thing and that’s it. And guess what? People will forgive me and I could get away with that. But that’s not what I’m doing. I feel like I failed my people. I called ‘The Breakfast Club’: because I wanted to apologize to my people.
“I want to be honest. I support freedom of speech,” he continued. “I support anybody not being censored. But I do not support anybody being hurt,” N.O.R.E told “The Breakfast Club” host Charlamagne Tha God. “I did not realize that the George Floyd statements made by Kanye on my show were so hurtful. You have to realize that it was the first five minutes of the show – like when he walked in, he told my producer that if we stop filming, he’ll walk out. So I didn’t want a Birdman moment, like when he walked out, so I wanted the man to speak.”
N.O.R.E. stressed that he did he did “check” West in regard to some of the more incendiary comments regarding George Floyd, particularly the claim that Floyd’s death was due to a Fentanyl overdose rather than police officer Derek Chauvin — who was convicted on two counts of murder and one of manslaughter. “I actually checked him about the ‘White Lives Matter’ thing too, but they were later in the episode, and I was already inebriated at that time, that maybe people looked over it. But I apologize to the George Floyd family.”
While N.O.R.E. didn’t specifically focus on West’s more incendiary comments about Jewish people — including that the “Jewish owned” media is out to get West, and that everyone from “Jewish basketball team owners” to “Jewish record label bosses” are in control — or to labeling Pete Davidson, West’s estranged wife Kim Kardashian’s former paramour, a heroin addict, the “Drink Champs” host did offer a blanket apology to all who may have been wounded or insulted by West’s comments.
“I don’t watch my own interviews because I know I’m great. But when I watched this one, I cringed. And I felt terrible. So I have to say that I am sorry to anybody who was hurt by his rhetoric, anybody who was hurt by his speech. I want to apologize to the George Floyd family… I want to apologize to anyone who was hurt by someone saying something in my platform. Contrary to popular belief, we own ‘Drink Champs.; We own our IP, so the person to blame is us. I’m not going to blame Puff Daddy [the owner of Revolt.TV where “Drink Champs” is aired]. Six years of this, I’m not going to have the excuse that I am not a journalist. I have responsibility…. I do not want my people to think that I did not step up at the time, but if you watch the whole 3 hour and 38-minute interview, I represent for George Floyd and Black people five, six, seven times.”
N.O.R.E. also attempted to defend himself by stating, “I had four Jewish people in the room” during the interview, including Steve Rifkind from Loud Records. “I looked to the Jewish people in the room to tell me when Kayne was going over the line.” Their looks, apparently, were those of “understanding where Kanye was coming from,” he claimed, “but I don’t support none of it.”
He also denied rumors that some of West’s comments were edited out of the interview, as Fox News did earlier this month. “We don’t edit out nothing,” he told “The Breakfast Club.”
Diddy declined comment on the interview, but West posted a text exchange between the two earlier this month that concluded with Diddy writing, “I’m just trying to talk to you as a Black man. And I’m talking to you because this is hurting our people. Stop.”
When “The Breakfast Club” hosts joked to N.O.R.E. about a comment that former president Donald Trump made about West being too “crazy” with his antisemitic statements, he laughed and said, “That’s when I had to step up.”
N.O.R.E. was gently reprimanded by Charlamagne for not challenging West earlier in the long interview, and for having him on the show at all. “As your friend, I told you last week not to do this [interview],” he said. “I told you this twice.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvRc7pwnt0U
Ice Cube knew the score in 1991...
“So don’t believe what Ren say
‘Cause he’s goin’ out like Kunte Kinte
But I got a whip for ya Toby
Used to be my homie, now you act like you don’t know me
It’s a case of divide-and-conquer
‘Cause you let a Jew break up my crew
House nigga gotta run and hide
Yellin’ Compton, but you moved to Riverside”
I feel ya, man.
Look at this grown ass man grovel! They told him he ain’t no billionaire and he can be canceled tomorrow:
N.O.P.E. is right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=d9yU3ey6-aA&feature=youtu.be
11:48 NOPE says, “As soon as the powers that be that we’re down with found out about it they just tried to remove the episode and I wanted to defend freedom of speech, so I was like, ‘Why?’ You know what I mean, boom boom boom boom. But now that I think about it...”
LOL!
So who exactly are those “powers that be”?
And how do they own this grown ass black man?
Sounds like the power that be went death con 3 on him.
https://youtu.be/Ss149jPUX6Q?t=152
Scene out of the movie Straight Outta Compton.. “I’ll call my friends at the JDL!” LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbCwmyHLfPs
Sarah Silverman joking about getting cancelled being inevitable. People are starting to lampoon the very concept.
There is a change in the winds....
I honestly don’t think this is about his comments on Jews.
Democrats make them all the time.
This is about his thoughts on BLM, abortion. and Blacks
leaving the reservation.
Exactly.
Because those are ‘their votes’ Dems own their blacks and they don’t want them following Ye and voting for Trump. That’s a 2x loss for them. That’s votes they OWNED lock stock and barrel and paid for ($300 million for Mark Zuckerberg right?) and then to go vote for Trump?
But they want us to believe more blacks voted for Biden and some Indian lady who jailed blacks over weed than voted for Obama? Riiiight.
You don’t understand Jews.
Jews are not “fighting for blacks.”
Jews use blacks as a tool to advance Jewish interests.
Just added “hurtful” to my list of BS words and phrases.
Sarah Silverman is trying to get Ye cancelled.
“Oppressed peoples” don’t like competition. There’s megabucks in them thar weaponized sympathy.
I’m really annoyed by the headlines with the word “SLAMMED.”
John Oliver Slams Trump ...
Twitter Slams Tucker ...
Slams = some ticked of lib whines in the media.
My list of BS words and phrases is a work in progress and is intended to be suggestive rather than exhaustive. It is also strictly my opinion; I’m certain that some folks will disagree with some of it.
Good point, the lady who jailed them for weed.
It’s just so retarded... the canceling is like the end of Three Amigos... cancelers running back and forth between buildings, canceling each other, canceling strangers, canceling people for the crap they do too...etc etc.
Yep...
There are no "historically oppressed" people.
All peoples have been oppressed and oppressor at some point in history.
Groups claim the label "historically oppressed" to justify more entitlement spending, greater sensitivity in speech codes, and superior treatment under the law.
In the U.S., only African slaves and Native Americans can claim some "historically oppressed" status. No one else. And both of their descendants have been well compensated by now.
I agreed with your whole post. Didn’t mean to ignore most of it with
my prior comment.
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