Kanye West Claims ‘Django Unchained’ Was His Concept, Says He Pitched Idea To Jamie Foxx & Quentin Tarantino – Deadline

Kanye West continues to make the rounds in conservative media circles following his antisemitic feedback. The rapper has now landed with Piers Morgan and claims Django Unchained was his concept and had initially pitched the story to director Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx.

West and Foxx labored collectively in 2005’s “Gold Digger” and for the music video, the singer and songwriter pitched Foxx and Tarantino a slavery-themed story.

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“Tarantino can write a film about slavery the place – really him and Jamie, they obtained 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,’” West mentioned on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “After which Tarantino turned it into a movie.”

Ultimately, the music video for “Gold Digger” didn’t go along with the concept West alleged he had. Django Unchained is a 2012 revisionist Western movie a couple of freed slave (Foxx) who groups up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to free his spouse from a slavery.

Deadline has reached out to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino’s representatives for remark.

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West’s feedback come after he posted on Twitter and Instagram messages that have been antisemitic following criticism for his look on Fox Information with Tucker Carlson. Following the continued hate speech, there’s mounting strain for companies to cease giving him a platform with Balenciaga severing ties with West lately.