Kanye West ‘Drink Champs’ video faraway from YouTube, Revolt
Kanye West‘s latest interview on the Drink Champs video podcast has been formally deleted within the wake of controversial feedback on the dying of George Floyd.
The interview can now not be discovered on both the podcast’s YouTube channel or on the official web site of its mum or dad firm, Revolt TV. Its wiping follows an apology from Drink Champs host N.O.R.E., who spoke with Hot97‘s Pete Rosenberg within the wake of the controversy.
“I’ve a relationship with Ye,” N.O.R.E. mentioned (per Billboard). “When he was going by way of a number of the issues he was going by way of, he would name me and he would truly take heed to me and take my recommendation. So, I felt [like] I might management the state of affairs. I felt that I might management the interview, and [I] realized early on that I didn’t.”
Watch N.O.R.E.’s interview beneath:
Within the authentic interview – of which clips are nonetheless circulating on Twitter – West claimed that the drug fentanyl was liable for the dying of George Floyd, quite than the brutality of law enforcement officials.
“When you look [at the video], the man’s [police officer Derek Chauvin] knee wasn’t even on [Floyd’s] neck like that,” West claimed. Floyd’s household is contemplating a lawsuit in opposition to Ye over these statements, a lawyer who represented the household mentioned yesterday.
The rapper additionally claimed that “the Jewish media blocked [him] out”, and that the JP Morgan Chase financial institution “handled [him] like shit” following their determination to sever ties with West.
The latter two feedback stem from West’s latest present of antisemitism that received him banned from social media. Sarah Silverman, Jamie Lee Curtis and Diane Wilson responded to those feedback, as did Bleachers‘ Jack Antonoff, West’s former collaborator John Legend, David Schwimmer, New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
West additionally referred to Pete Davidson, the ex-boyfriend of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, as a “heroin addict” that “was tattooing [West’s] youngsters’ identify on him”. He additionally denied his antisemitism within the interview, whereas concurrently claiming that “Jewish folks have owned the Black voice”.
The Drink Champs saga follows West’s look at Paris Style Week, the place he wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt, earlier than defending his actions in a Fox Information interview – which itself elicited additional controversy.