Kanye West claims Quentin Tarantino stole ‘Django’ thought from him
Kanye West has claimed that he spoke to Quentin Tarantino about his “Django” idea for his ‘Gold Digger’ music video, “after which Tarantino turned it into a movie”.
The rapper and entrepreneur in a brand new interview accused the director, together with actor Jamie Foxx, of stealing his thought.
Talking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Ye claimed that he had pitched the “Django” thought to Tarantino and Foxx because the music video for his 2005 hit ‘Gold Digger’. In 2012, Tarantino launched the revisionist Western Django: Unchained a few freed slave (performed by Foxx) who works with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his spouse from a plantation.
“Tarantino can write a film about slavery the place – really him and Jamie [Foxx], they obtained the thought from me as a result of the thought for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino because the video for ‘Gold Digger’. After which Tarantino turned it into a movie,” West claimed to Morgan.
Neither Tarantino nor Foxx have responded publicly to Ye’s claims. NME has contacted Tarantino’s representatives for remark.
Whereas Ye didn’t broaden on his claims, he did make a comparability, when talking about how free speech exists with context, to the movie’s slave grasp (performed by Leonard DiCaprio) utilizing racial slurs within the movie and never being deemed a racist.
That is in gentle of West making a number of feedback that had been criticised as anti-Semitic over the previous few weeks, which he has regularly denied had been racist. In the identical interview with Morgan, the rapper provided one thing of an “apology” to these whom he’d offended together with his feedback.
In the long run, West’s ‘Gold Digger’ music video had nothing to do with slavery and as an alternative featured pin-up ladies posing for fictitious journal covers.
Django: Unchained grossed greater than $425million (£380million) worldwide on the field workplace in opposition to its $100million (£88.4 million) and have become Tarantino’s most commercially profitable movie.
In different Ye information, luxurious vogue home Balenciaga has reduce ties with the star over his current social media feedback.