Trevor Noah is addressing the alleged “beef” between him and Kanye West!
As you might recall, the 38-year-old comic had been one of many most important targets for Ye when he known as out the 45-year-old rapper for “harassing” his ex-wife Kim Kardashian on social media earlier this yr. Kanye ended up utilizing a racial slur aimed toward Trevor in a since-deleted Instagram put up, leading to his account being briefly suspended. (His account was unblocked earlier than Insta restricted it once more this month after he posted some antisemitic remarks.) It was a messy scenario on the time, to say the least. And issues have solely continued as Ye even slammed Trevor on the Drink Champs podcast.
So the place do Trevor and Kanye stand? Shockingly sufficient, when Trevor answered an viewers member’s query concerning the supposed feud between him and Kanye throughout The Daily Show, the political commentator made it clear there is no such thing as a dangerous blood between them proper now! He mentioned in a video posted to TikTookay on Friday:
“Why am I beefing with Kanye? That’s an interesting way to phrase it because a beef has to go both ways. Genuinely it does. In my limited understanding of the world, beef has always been something that generally will happen between two hip-hop artists. I’ve never beefed with Kanye West. I was concerned about Kanye West.”
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Recently, Kanye has been in sizzling water for making false claims concerning the demise of George Floyd, carrying the white supremacist hate slogan “White Lives Matter” on a t-shirt, and making a number of antisemitic feedback on Twitter and in interviews – together with on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and the Drink Champs podcast. On the present, Trevor talked about how contemplating Kanye has admitted to having psychological well being struggles prior to now, he’s primarily annoyed with the rapper persevering with to have a platform to voice his problematic feedback:
“If somebody says to me that they have a mental health issue, and they say to everyone that when they don’t take their medication, they’re unable to control themselves. And then everyone ignores when that person is having an episode and they haven’t taken the medication and then they platform the person and put them up. … I sometimes think it’s a little s****y, to be honest with you.”
Recalling how his grandfather had handled bipolar dysfunction, Trevor mentioned he typically would “act in a certain way and could do certain things” throughout an episode. He then famous how it’s “strange” some are extra involved about “going viral” with Kanye’s feedback, including:
“I don’t have beef with a human being who has expressed openly that they’re dealing with a mental health issue. I don’t have beef with that human being. What I have beef with is us as a society not coming together around the person and going like, ‘Hey, maybe this is not the moment to put a microphone in your face so that you just go off saying everything.’ If this is what you want to say when you’re on your medication, then that’s a different story. But because you’ve told us that, I’m not going to sit by and say that.”
Trevor concluded:
“I still love him despite the shit that he talks. But I’ve promised myself I’ll never be the person who just sits by and gleefully says things about people that I care about and then also joins the group of mourners afterward and acts like I wasn’t part of it. Too many people like to mourn you when you’re dead, and they don’t say anything to you when you’re alive. So I don’t know where to end. But that’s it.”
What do you consider Trevor’s tackle the Kanye situaion, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback. You can also ch-ch-check out his whole speech (beneath):
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