We so want this was essentially the most controversial factor Kanye West had stated over the previous couple weeks… and as simply discredited.

Misplaced within the sea of antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and different vile issues the rapper has spewed this month, he additionally claimed in there someplace that Django Unchained was actually his concept. He informed Piers Morgan of their wide-ranging interview that Quentin Tarantino had stolen the concept from him after he pitched it to star Jamie Foxx as the concept for his music video for 2005’s Gold Digger. He claimed:

“Tarantino can write a film about slavery, the place really — him and Jamie — they received the concept from me, as a result of the concept for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino because the video for ‘Gold Digger’… After which Tarantino turned it into a movie.”

That is simply how Ye works. He calls himself a genius in all types sufficient and ultimately he believes it — and grows to imagine he’s the writer of every thing he likes… in his personal thoughts anyway.

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The declare is clearly someplace adjoining to the reality — however Tarantino tells it fairly a bit in another way. The filmmaker guested on Jimmy Kimmel Reside on Thursday evening, and the host needed to ask concerning the boast. QT said unequivocally:

“There’s no reality to the concept Kanye West got here up with the concept of Django after which he informed that to me, and I am going, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a very nice concept. Let me take Kanye’s concept and make Django Unchained out of it.’ That didn’t occur.”

He says he’d been toying with the concept for Django Unchained — which is known as after the cowboy character performed by Franco Nero in lots of a spaghetti western — “for some time earlier than I ever met Kanye.” So what did occur with the Yeezy founder? They met when the hitmaker “wished to do a large film model of The School Dropout” and was pitching to giant-sized music movies to Hollywood powerhouses:

“So he wished to get massive administrators to do totally different tracks from the album after which launch it as this big film… not movies, nothing as crass as movies, films, they had been going to be films based mostly on every of the totally different tracks.”

Quentin says he considered the mission pitch because the mutual followers’ “excuse to satisfy one another.” However Ye “did have an concept for a video” that he favored, and it did function Kanye enjoying a slave:

“I do suppose it was for the Gold Digger video, that he could be a slave. And the entire thing was this slave narrative the place he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger.’ And it was very humorous. It was a very, actually humorous concept.”

He continued:

“And it’s like an enormous musical. I imply, like no bills spared with him on this slave rag outfit, doing every thing, after which that was additionally a part of the pushback on it. However I want he had carried out it. It sounded actually cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”

What did occur with the video? Kanye and Jamie, who sang on the refrain of Gold Digger, starred in a a lot much less formidable video by Hype Williams.

However as for the remainder of the plot of Django Unchained? Just like the dentist, the Klan scene, Broomhilda, Calvin Sweet, your entire film? All the things apart from it being “a few slave”? Nah.

BTW, the concept Tarantino and Jamie Foxx took the concept collectively is unnecessary. QT famously meant for Will Smith to play the lead, however he turned it down! Jamie solely received solid after!

We are able to’t say we’re shocked, tbh. To say you must take what Ye says with a grain of salt nowadays is doing a disservice to sodium. Anyway, right here’s Tarantino’s full model of occasions (beneath):

[Image via Jimmy Kimmel Live/Sony Pictures/Piers Morgan/YouTube.]