Kanye West delivered a number of shocking diatribes while appearing on TMZ Live on Tuesday.
The first of these occurred early in the program when he was asked to respond to a statement made by Tha Dogg Pound rapper Daz Dillinger last week in which he said that he wanted members of the Crips to assault Kanye for referring to President Trump as his ‘brother.’
Kanye responded by stating: ‘You can live through an a** whipping. Probably the idea is to beat sense into me. But when you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice.’
He continued: ‘You were there for 400 years, and it is all of y’all? It is like we are mentally imprisoned. I like the word prison because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. It is like slavery, holocaust. Holocaust, is Jews, and slavery is blacks.
‘So prison is something that unites us as one race. Black and whites, one race. It is like we are one with the human race, we are human beings and stuff.’
Kan-troversy: Kanye West (above in 2015) appeared on TMZ Live Tuesday where he made a number of comments that are already stirring up controversy
Kanye then went to move on, but Harvey Levin brought the conversation back to the rapper’s comment about slavery.
‘Right now, we’re choosing to be enslaved,’ said Kanye, who spoke about a recent FaceTime conversation he had with Ibrahim ‘Ebro’ Darden and conservative commentator Candice Owens.
He said that because Owens shut Ebro down during a conversation they had, Ebro refused to allow Owens on his show.
‘So you’re stiffling her voice,’ said Kanye.
‘You’re choosing to enslave people’s minds. You’re choosing to not let the truth be free.’
The talk then shifted to Kanye’s support of President Trump, for which the rapper believes he was unfairly attacked based on the fact that he is a black man.
‘The mob tries to tell you what to think. The mob tries to make all blacks be Democrats for food stamps and stuff. It is the mob,’ declared Kanye.
On the subject of President Trump however, Kanye did explain that politics has little to do with his affinity for the real-estate-scion-turned-commander-in-chief.
‘My righteous point of view is freedom of thought. I don’t have extremely strong political opinions. You can talk to John Legend if you want opinions,’ said Kanye.
‘I have never been into politics. I just love Trump. That is my boy.’
Kanye then pointed out that a number of rappers felt the same way before President Trump took office.