Hey, recollect how but yesterday we said that nosotros "have to wonder what other ludicrous events are set to transpire between now and when Kanye'southward next solo album comes out"? Well, Kanye West is nothing if not reliable, and has now attempted to clarify some controversial comments he made in which he states that slavery of African Americans was a "choice".

Earlier this morning, Kanye appeared on a live chart with TMZ in which he touched on a lot of topics, including his previously unknown opiate addiction that occurred after receiving liposuction. Withal, information technology was Kanye's comments on slavery that attracted the nearly controversy.

"I'm a black person, a [member] of the black customs, merely I'chiliad not just that," Kanye said. "I'yard always gonna stand for that, but I also correspond the world."

"When you hear about slavery for 400 years – for 400 years?! That sounds like a selection," he argued as TMZ 's presenters looked visibly uncomfortable. "Like, y'all was there for 400 years and it's all of y'all? Information technology's like we're mentally in prison."

Soon though,TMZ reporter Van Lathan took Kanye to chore for his comments, confronting him in a way that many accept probably wanted to for quite some time.

"I really don't think you're thinking anything," Lathan said. "I recollect what you lot're doing correct now is actually the absence of thought."

"While you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you've earned by being a genius, the rest of the states in society have to deal with these threats to our lives," he continued. "We have to deal with the marginalisation that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you lot said for our people was a choice."

"Frankly I am disappointed, I'chiliad appalled, and brother, I am unbelievably hurt past the fact that you take morphed into something that is not existent."

Following these controversial remarks, which accept generated more word in simply a few hours than a lot of Kanye's previous actions, West took to Twitter to try and clarify the remarks he made.

"Nosotros demand to have open discussions and ideas on unsettled pain to make myself articulate. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a gunkhole by free will," he wrote on Twitter.

"My bespeak is for us to accept stayed in that position fifty-fifty though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved," he connected. "They cut out our tongues and then we couldn't communicate to each other. I will not allow my natural language to be cut."

Following a Tweet in which he compared himself to slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman and famous rebel Nat Turner, Kanye explained that the give-and-take on race issues needs to exist updated.

"The reason why I brought up the 400 years point is because we can't be mentally imprisoned for another 400 years," he wrote. "We demand gratuitous thought at present. Even the statement was an example of free thought. Information technology was merely an thought."

"Once over again I am existence attacked for presenting new ideas."

While there'due south every hazard that Kanye might be a little bit quieter following this controversial incident, the by shows us that, if he gets knocked down, he gets right back up again, so keep an eye onThe Brag for more than news on Kanye'due south questionable decisions over the coming month.

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