Kanye West accuses Quentin Tarantino of stealing his original idea for Gold Digger music video and using it as plot for Django Unchained
Kanye West is taking on the subject of whether there are limits to free speech, which comes in the wake of his anti-Semitic remarks over the past few weeks.
While appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored, West insisted ‘there are no limits for free speech’, after the host prefaced the question by stating he felt there’s currently a ‘war’ on the first-amendment guarantee.
In making his case, West accused Quentin Tarantino of stealing an idea he pitched to the renowned writer/director, as well as Jamie Foxx, for his Gold Digger music video and using it as the plot for his 2012 film Django Unchained.
‘There are no limits for free speech. It’s all context, right?’ the Praise God star, 45, ᴀsserted to Morgan when asked if he believes there are limits to free speech.
‘Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where actually him and Jamie [Foxx] they got the idea from me because the idea for Django I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for Gold Digger and then Tarantino turned it into a film,’ he claimed
While West didn’t expand on his claims, or why he waited more than 10 years to suggest his idea was stolen, he did make a comparison, when speaking about how free speech exists with context, to the film’s slave master (Leonardo DiCaprio) using the n-word in the film and not being deemed a racist.
‘In that film he creates a context where Leonardo DiCaprio is allowed to use n***** multiple times within that context,’ the Blame Game rapper explained. ‘So Hollywood’s job is to frame things. And they allow what content is accepted and what’s not.’
West elaborated more on the idea of free speech: ‘Everyone has thoughts and ideas and then people try to manipulate your thoughts and ideas. In order for humanity to move forward we have to be free to think and then to actualize.’
The interview comes in light of West being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks over the past few weeks, which he has continually denied were racist.
