John Legend is talking out as soon as once more about his cut up with former good friend/producer Kanye West, looking for to make clear some feedback he made final month about what prompted the rift between the previous collaborators. In a New Yorker profile the outspoken social justice advocate described how he thought friendships shouldn’t be decided by “who they voted for,” however that “sure stuff you imagine in are indicators of your character, and clearly that may have an effect on your friendships.”
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That was a lead-in to a dialogue about Ye (as West is now identified) posting a sequence of texts between the 2 about Kanye’s assist of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump earlier than the Donda rapper launched his personal failed White Home bid; Legend sought to make clear that his feedback in regards to the rupture within the August CNN story had been taken out of context.
“What it received described as was, we stopped being buddies as a result of he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I mentioned,” Legend defined. “That was form of the Rupert Murdoch model of the story — it was all around the New York Put up and Fox Information.” Nonetheless, what Legend advised the New Yorker was that West was upset with him for not supporting the MC’s presidential aspirations. “That was the true impetus for us having a pressure in our friendship,” he mentioned. “I don’t know what is going to occur sooner or later, however he was very upset with me that I didn’t assist him and I supported Joe Biden. It’s as much as him whether or not he can get previous that.”
Along with their distinction of opinion about West’s assist of Trump, Legend additionally mentioned that essentially the most distressing a part of Ye’s anemic presidential run — by which he scored simply 60,000 complete votes — had been stories that it was primarily a ghost operation to amplify Trump’s unsuccessful re-election run. “Essentially the most irritating factor about his run for the Presidency for me was how a lot it was an operation run by the Trump marketing campaign,” Legend advised the journal of stories that Trump and members of the GOP institution had been serving to the musician’s no-shot third-party bid in an effort to siphon votes from Biden.
“I don’t know the way conscious he was of the truth that there was a lot Trump personnel all through his marketing campaign, elevating cash for him, getting petitions signed for him, getting him on the poll. I noticed their work on his behalf as a transparent rip-off and an operation to attempt to siphon Black votes away from Biden, so there was no manner I used to be going to assist it,” Legend mentioned. “Kanye was upset with that, and we haven’t been buddies since, actually.”
As for his emotions about West posting these screenshots of their textual content back-and-forth in 2018, Legend mentioned, “Everybody noticed how I talked to him about it. I talked to him with love and with empathy, and tried to assist him see one other manner of taking a look at issues. And clearly he went the best way he went with it.” A spokesperson for West couldn’t be reached for remark at press time.
