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12 Oct 2022

Kid Cudi Gets Skateboarding Lessons From Tony Hawk: ‘I Feel Like A Big Kid’

Kid Cudi has learned how to skateboard, thanks to a few lessons he got from the legendary Tony Hawk.

The skateboarding icon took to Instagram to share a video compilation of some of Cudi’s first lessons and said the Moon Man reached out to him to ask for help.

“Kid Cudi hit me up recently about wanting to learn how to skate,” Hawk wrote. “I have now given him two lessons in as many weeks and it has been gratifying to see his commitment to the process. Rarely do beginning skaters take direction so well, or progress as quickly.”

He continued: “By the second ‘lesson’ he is turning, doing fakies, kickturns, fakie 180’s and starting to snap ollies. And he’s taken a couple heavy slams in the process! But we skaters know that makes getting up and conquering the challenge even more satisfying.”

Hawk went on to say it had been a “pleasure” and an “honor” getting to know Kid Cudi, and that he was “inspired” by his “talents in music and film.”

“I am thankful he has chosen skateboarding as a new passion, helping to raise awareness and appreciation for our culture to a bigger audience,” Hawk wrote. “His ‘pursuit of happiness’ now includes a wooden plank and four wheels. And he’ll be fine once he gets it.”

Cudi replied to Hawk’s post on Twitter, writing: “my guy!! Got the best coach!! Blessed.”

“The homie and coach, @tonyhawk hooked me up w a ramp builder,” Cudi announced in a another tweet. “First day of installation tomorrow. This is unreal. Always wanted to skate ramps. I feel like a big kid.”

The “Cudi Zone” rapper then posted two videos that showed his basketball court being torn apart by construction workers as his ramp was installed.

“It beginss. So long basketball court,” Kid Cudi wrote. “#ragerville.”

Skateboarding is just the latest new venture Kid Cudi has undertaken this year. He recently dropped off his new project Entergalactic on September 30, which serves as the soundtrack to the new Netflix animated series he created. He told Zane Lowe it very well could be the last Cudi album for a while because of how many other outlets he’s involved in.

“The Kid Cudi stuff, I think I want to put it on the back burner and chill out with that,” he said. “I think, I want to be done with it. I think, closing the chapter on Kid Cudi.”

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He continued: “I’ve said a lot and I have other desires, I have other things I want to do. And I do not see me never making music, I’ll always fuck around in the studio, or make something here and there. But, as far as getting in the studio and working on an album, and then going and touring it, I just don’t have it in me. I don’t have the desire.

“I have so many other things I want to invest my time into… I really want to spend more time with my daughter. You know what I’m saying? We’ve been kicking it a lot lately and I’ve been having more time and it’s good, she’s growing up, our relationship is super tight. It’s what I always dreamed of.”

Meanwhile, Kid Cudi has begun the process of penning his life story in an upcoming memoir.

The Cleveland, Ohio native revealed in a tweet last month that he’s started writing the first chapter of his biography, which he said will explain his “troubled boy” beginnings.

12 Oct 2022

Fugees’ Pras Gets New Trial Date In Criminal Conspiracy & Campaign Finance Case

Fugees rapper Pras will finally be going to trial after receiving a court date for his criminal conspiracy and campaign finance charges case.

The trial, which is set for March 27, 2023, will see Pras defend himself in a case alleging he was funneling money to political campaigns.

In 2019, the Fugees member was charged alongside Low Taek Taek Jho (aka Jho Low), a Malaysian national who is still at large, and the man that Pras is accused of laundering the money for and making false statements in connection to the case.

The charges against Pras include one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States government and making foreign and conduit campaign contributions, one count of concealing material facts, and two counts of making a false entry in a record in connection with the conspiracy.

Prosecutors also allege the rapper received approximately $100 million from Jho Low to influence American politics. He allegedly handed political committees illegal political contributions supporting the re-election of former President Barack Obama in 2012.

Pras is also accused of attempting to influence former President Donald J. Trump and his administration to end a civil and criminal investigation into Jho Low by the Department of Justice.

If that wasn’t enough, Pras is alleged to have attempted to influence the Trump administration on behalf of the Chinese government to remove a Chinese dissident from the United States and send him back home to China.

According to a report from Politico, actor Leonardo DiCaprio is among the list of potential witnesses set to testify in the case. Jho Low, a Hollywood personality known for lavish parties and dating model Miranda Kerr, has said he helped supply the money for DiCaprio’s 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.

Jho Low is also wanted internationally in connection with his role in the 1MDB scandal, where billions of dollars were embezzled from the state-owned sovereign investment fund Low co-founded with Malaysia’s then–prime minister, Najib Razak.

Pras and Jho Low’s trial was set to begin next month, but a motion to continue was granted due to an attorney on the case suffering an unrelated injury.

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The charges put a dampener on the Fugees’ planned reunion tour for The Score’s 25th anniversary. According to Rolling Stone, a report suggested the Grammy Award-winning MC’s legal troubles made it impossible for the tour to continue.

The legendary Hip Hop trio performed just one date in New York City last year before pulling the plug. Fugees had initially announced they were canceling the remaining 11 dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We anticipate and understand disappointment but our anniversary tour will not be able to happen,” they said at the time. “The continued Covid pandemic has made touring conditions difficult, and we want to make sure we keep our fans and ourselves healthy and safe. An idea sparked to honor and celebrate this 25th anniversary of The Score, but we see now it may not currently be our time for revisiting this past work.”

It turns out the Justice Department wouldn’t let Pras go on the international tour, which included stops in London and Paris. Pras reportedly rejected a plea deal that would’ve required him to plead guilty to an obstruction of justice charge along with a 16-month prison sentence and financial retribution to Malaysia.

12 Oct 2022

Brandy Hospitalized After Suffering Possible Seizure

Brandy has reportedly been hospitalized after experiencing a seizure.

Per TMZ, Brandy is reportedly recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after an EMS call was made to her home on Tuesday afternoon (October 11). Sources told the outlet it appears she’ll recover and that her parents are currently with her. It’s unclear at this time what led to the seizure.

Shortly after the outlet broke the story, Brandy issued a statement to her social media accounts, informing her fans that she is ok.

“To my beloved fam, friends and stars thank you for sending love and light my way,” she wrote. “I am following doctors’ orders and getting the rest I need due to dehydration and low amounts of nutrition. Thank you for your prayers and support. Grateful for you all, see you soon.”

The “Have You Ever” singer was brought out as a special guest by Jack Harlow during his BET Awards performance in June, where the pair performed his chart-topping smash “First Class.” The performance was noteworthy because Brandy and Jack Harlow had connected over social media following a May interview with Hot 97 where Harlow revealed he had no idea Brandy was Ray J’s sister.

“I will murk this dude in rap at 43 on his own beats and then sing is ass to sleep, Brandy wrote on Twitter at the time. “See, I can have a little fun too. hehe…all love.”

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Brandy then hit her own “First Class” freestyle, rapping over the Fergie-sampled instrumental: “Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is world-famous, one of the greatest/Living legend, did I mention my résumé is amazing/Over 20 years and I’m still a topic/A bitch is worth a million and I’m feeling philanthropic/Popular but now I’m poppin’ shit for those out of pocket.”

More recently, Brandy was recruited by Mariah Carey for a new video of “The Roof (When I Feel the Need)” as part of the latter’s Butterfly Lounge sessions.​​​​​​ The Brandy-assisted revamp of the Butterfly track dropped earlier this year as part of an anniversary-commemorating edition of the album.

In the same month, the singer was also featured in a Munachi Osegbu-directed Colors video, where she performed “Rather Be,” a track taken from her most recent album B7, which dropped in 2020 and debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200. The project moved 25,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, and was later nominated for a Grammy.

HipHopDX sends warm wishes to Brandy and her family during this difficult time.

12 Oct 2022

Boosie Badazz’s Rant About Social Media Leaves N.O.R.E. In Stitches: ‘It Made Us Hoes’

Boosie Badazz has made fans laugh with his unhinged takes on the culture, and he recently had N.O.R.E. do the same with a recent conversation about social media.

The Lousiana native stopped by Drink Champs as the latest guest on the popular podcast and had N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN in stitches with his hilarious take on social media. According to Boosie, apps such as Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and more are a great tool to make money, but it ruins everything else for people.

“Social media fucked up everything,” Boosie said. “It made more avenues for money, but it fucked up everything. Marriages, everything. At first, your bitch just used to see the n-ggas at work, you and that’s it and then come home. That’s all she had to look at. Now she got about 30,000 n-ggas to look at for when you don’t act right.

“And she hypnotized by all the other bitches, bitches getting shit on Instagram that she not getting. So all that time you done put in but no money, it fucked up everything. It fucked up you too. All you had to look at was your side bitches, your bitches at work your bitch at home when you come back. That’s all we had.”

Boosie continued to explain that men are just as messed up off social media as women are. And while he was explaining his opinion, N.O.R.E. and EFN were cackling up a storm in the background.

“A couple side bitches on the other side of town now you hypnotized. You look at your bitch, and you see a thousand bitches look better. They looking way better than your bitch you look over and tell the bitch like…it made us hoes bro. It made your bitch a hoe and it made a n-gga a hoe.”

The Drink Champs clip is on brand for Boosie’s hilarious antics. Most of his social media videos have fans laughing at whatever it is he’s doing, whether it’s interacting with bears or dissing a billionaire.

When he’s not offering comedic relief to fans, Boosie is showing off the work he’s put in for other people. During a recent interview with VladTV, Boosie claimed he put on a lot of street guys and no one in the rap game could compare.

“Ain’t nobody ever in rap history never raised more street n-ggas than me,” Boosie declared. “I’m talking ’bout no rapper in history raised more street n-ggas than me. I done been around rappers. Everybody come around rappers like, ‘N-gga, I love your music.’

“I done been around tons of rappers, they fans like, ‘I love you, I love you.’ Don’t none of them fans come up to them and say, ‘N-gga, you raised me.’ It’s a difference. It’s a difference between, ‘I like your music, I like your song, I like your jewelry.’”

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He continued: “No, ‘N-gga, you raised me. Father figure type. I love you type. I felt like you was around me type. Like, you saw everything that was going on.’ Nobody has done that more than Boosie, and a n-gga can’t take that away.”

Boosie Badazz also claimed he’s loved by every generation and said he appreciates when people give him credit for his career.

12 Oct 2022

Watch Remy Ma & Papoose Rap Their Favorite Verses From Each Other

EXCLUSIVE – Remy Ma & Papoose were asked to share their favorite verses from each other, and the happy couple surprised each other with their picks.

The couple spoke to HipHopDX on the BET Hip Hop Awards red carpet last month, and Papoose chose to rap the opening bars from Remy Ma’s 2008 diss track “When I See Her,” which was recorded prior to her serving 8 years in prison for assault.

“60 seconds to a minute it’s a problem when I see her / 7 days a week, alternate sides of the street / I’m a drag that bitch like the mothafuckin’ beat,” he rapped.

Remy Ma admitted she hadn’t seen Papoose ever “act it out like that.” She then picked her husband’s 2005 track “The Underground King,” which shocked the “Heat 7” hitmaker.

“Yo that’s crazy! I want y’all to know I never ever knew that,” Papoose said. “This is my first time even hearing that information.”

“Cause he get mad gassed I gotta play the songs inside when I’m in the car by myself,” Remy said.

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Remy Ma and Papoose have been busy enjoying their 14 years of marriage, and in August revealed how they keep their love alive after all this time.

“The kids helps with keeping things spicy!” Remy told HollywoodLife Podcast in a recent chat. “We’ll hug, and she’ll always want in on every hug, she wants in on every date, she wants in on everything! So, the second she’s asleep, it’s like oh, let’s go! We gotta try to get in where we can fit it in, you know?”

She continued, “We’ve spent time in closets! Hiding! It’s pretty easy when you have a kid, very spicy!”

The couple had their daughter Reminisce MacKenzie in 2018, the duo’s first child together, and Remy admitted the balancing act of being a rap superstar mother was hardly a cakewalk.

“It’s difficult, but it’s something as moms we have to do,” she said. “We have to figure out how to work while we’re pregnant, we have to figure out how to manage work and school, work and being a wife, and work as a carpenter, a chef, a gardener and all these other things that just fall on our plates as women, as moms, and as wives. It’s just something that we do.”

In more recent news, Remy Ma announced on Tuesday (October 11) she would be spearheading the first-ever women-led battle rap tournament aptly called The Tournament. The show will find 16 contestants lyrically duke it out in New York City for a $25,000 grand prize.

The Bronx rapper unveiled the participants in an Instagram video, with first-round match-ups between QB and Chayna Ashley, C3 and 40 BARRS, Chetta and E. Hart, set for October 30.

“All-female, first-ever in battle rap history,” Remy said in the clip. “All bitches can rap. It’ll be three rounds. Every round is 90 seconds. So that’s a minute and a half with a max of two minutes.”

As for Papoose, he dipped into his bag on Monday (October 10) to participate in Diddy’s “Gotta Move On” freestyle challenge, which Fabolous unintentionally started earlier this month.

12 Oct 2022

Lil Yachty Gets Invite From Polish Prime Minister Following Viral ‘Poland’ Song

Lil Yachty has another viral moment on his hands with his latest track “Poland” working its way into the ears of listeners.

The song has catapulted to viral fame in recent weeks thanks to its absurd, warbling hook (“I took the Wooooock to Poland,” a reference to Wockhardt, the pharmaceutical company that produces promethazine-codeine syrup), which has inspired countless memes on social media.

It looks like Lil Yachty might be making another trip to the European country. On Wednesday (October 12), Quality Control CEO Pierre “Pee” Thomas shared an alleged text conversation with Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki inviting Lil Boat to his homeland.

“Thank you for the call,” Pee wrote, alluding to a recent phone conversation with Prime Minister Morawiecki. “Let’s make arrangements to get Mr. Yachty to [your] country to celebrate.”

Morawiecki replied: “Will check the schedule and get back with you. Thank you for your time.”

Pee then sent the text exchange to Lil Yachty, who initially had no clue who Morawiecki is. After looking him up online, an astonished Yachty wrote back: “Oh shit.”

“Poland” has earned co-signs from many of Lil Yachty’s rap peers since its was released on streaming services earlier this week.

Drake shared a screenshot of him playing the song on Spotify to his Instagram Stories, while Wiz Khalifa called the track “hard” while praising Yachty’s dress sense.

Offset and Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper Steve Lacy have both been captured belting out “Poland”‘s earworm hook in separate clips on social media.

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Lil Yachty reunited with Lyrical Lemonade‘s Cole Bennett to shoot a video for “Poland,” which finds him roaming the streets of New York City rather than the European country. The clip boasts more than two million YouTube views since its arrival on Tuesday (October 11).

Watch the “Poland” video below.

12 Oct 2022

Jeezy & DJ Drama To Perform Mixtape Hits At ‘B Side’ Concert In Atlanta

Atlanta, GA – Jeezy and DJ Drama have a treat in store for fans later this month with a special “B Side” concert in Atlanta, Georgia, where they’ll perform their mixtape hits.

The announcement was made via Jeezy and DJ Drama’s respective Instagram pages on Tuesday (October 11), with a flyer showing the two sitting on a couch while sharing a laugh. The longtime collaborators will be taking the stage to dust off several of their classic deep cuts.

The one-night-only event will take place at a “secret location” on Saturday (October 15). Tickets can only be acquired through a sweepstakes with Atlanta’s Hot 107.9 radio station. Fans can text “SNOW” to 71007 for a chance to win.

“1 Night & 1 Night Only… For All My Day 1s Doing All Your Mixtape Favorites @djdrama!” Jeezy wrote on Instagram. “Make sure you click the link in my bio for more details. Limited space available.”

Seemingly inspired by JAY-Z’s series of “B-Sides” concerts in New York City, where he played deep cuts from his decorated catalog alongside guests like Nas and Dipset, Jeezy and DJ Drama’s upcoming show will warm fans up for their latest musical collaboration.

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Earlier this month, the duo announced plans to release new joint mixtape called Snofall on October 21. They’ve already given fans one appetizer so far with the ’80s-inspired single “I Ain’t Gon Hold You,” which dropped in September.

Jeezy and DJ Drama first joined forces in 2005 for the Gangsta Grillz mixtape Trap or Die. The project helped elevate both mens’ careers as Jeezy dropped his major label debut Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 later that year, while Drama’s Gangsta Grillz series continued to cement itself as a force in the streets.

12 Oct 2022

Lil Uzi Vert Delivers Emotional Speech At Lotta Cash Desto’s Funeral

Memphis, TN – Lil Uzi Vert delivered a sincere speech at Lotta Cash Desto’s funeral earlier this month.

Desto, who was affiliated with Uzi, was tragically shot and killed while driving in Houston last month. He was just 24 years old.

A service was held in Desto’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee over the weekend, where a heartbroken Lil Uzi Vert took to the podium. The Philadelphia native spoke in a somber tone while eulogizing his late “Lunchroom” collaborator.

“I ain’t gon’ lie this don’t even feel real to me,” he began from behind a pair of black shades. “Destinee was always on my hip everywhere I go… I had got in some trouble and they put me away I had to go to a rehab program and all that.

“She called me every day… Even if she called to argue with me, she called me every day and that’s what counted.”

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After a pause, Lil Uzi Vert opened up about how he and Lotta Cash Desto became very close in a short span of time and remembered their undying loyalty to one another.

“I don’t even know how I feel,” he added. “I got close over a short span of time. Just her loyalty, like, she showed me a different type of loyalty… She’d never let anyone get up near me.

“Anything she could do for me, she would do it. Just feeling something different, especially knowing I’m older than her so she was my little homie.”

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Lotta Cash Desto — born Destinee Govan — was shot and killed in her sports car on September 24 after being approached by a male assailant. According to the Houston Chronicle, Desto shot back at her attacker, but ended up being fatally wounded. A female passenger was also with her at the time.

Desto gained significant momentum with a series of singles as she prepared to unleash her debut project. She teamed up with Lil Uzi Vert on the aforementioned “Lunchroom” in June, while her most recent release — a tribute to the currently incarcerated Young Thug called “Free Slatt” — arrived in September.

Lil Uzi Vert initially mourned Lotta Cash Desto’s with a heartbroken tweet. “I been tryna keep my mind off shit but it definitely hurt,” he wrote along with a series of sorrowful emojis two days after her passing.

12 Oct 2022

Tee Grizzley Wants ‘Chapters Of The Trenches’ Rollout To Inspire Creativity In His Competition

EXCLUSIVE – Tee Grizzley is one of the more creative rappers in the game when it comes to crafting stories.

For his upcoming album, Chapters of the Trenches (out October 14), the Detroit native held a special viewing party in New York City last month, where he premiered the project in full through 13 music videos put together like a movie or TV show.

While each video tells its own story, the visuals are connected by an underlying theme. Tee Grizzley intended for his audience to take in the album this way — as a cohesive, unified body of work. The rollout for Chapters of the Trenches began with the “First Day Out” rapper unleashing a new music video for each song every Tuesday.

Tee Grizzley has already released five music videos so far with “Robbery 4,” “Jay & Twan 1,” “Ms. Evans 1,” “Tez & Tone 1″ and “Jay & Twan 2.” According to Grizzley, he wants his Chapters of the Trenches rollout to make listeners feel like they’re watching a new episode of a TV series airing each week.

Once all 13 videos have been released, fans can watch them in sequence like a full-length film — and Tee Grizzley has the right combination of creativity and experience to bring these visuals to life. As he explains, authenticity only comes from real-life experience.

“You got to have some type of experience with this stuff,” Tee Grizzley tells HipHopDX. “You got to have some type of experience, you got to have imagination and you got to be creative. You got to have experience because you got to know how people will respond to certain things.

“You got to have imagination because you got to put some great shit in there. And then with creativity, you got to have that because, at the end, how will you leave people wanting more of this?”

The experiences that inspired this new body of work primarily came from Tee Grizzley’s upbringing in the streets of Detroit, but there’s also a more simple place that he tapped into to bring these stories to life. The 28-year-old loves a good television show, especially those that keep him on the edge of his seat.

“I watch TV shows, and one thing that I like about them and that makes me want to keep watching them is I got to see what’s going to be on the next episode,” he says. “I like TV series better than movies because it lasts longer and leaves you wanting more.”

One of his go-to shows is House of the Dragon, the new Game of Thrones prequel that’s been a huge success for HBO and its streaming platform, HBOMax. The show is set 200 years before the events of the original series, introducing audiences to a plethora of new stories and characters.

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Tee envisions something similar for Chapters of the Trenches, with hopes of expanding the album into a larger franchise through which he can continue telling more stories.

“In the future, I definitely want to do more chapters. I definitely want to add extra parts to the stories that’s on there. I want to intertwine stories and all that,” he says.

“As far as the plan for this album specifically, I plan on doing what I did in New York in eight to 10 different cities with the fans and my supporters. I’ll have them come out and experience it as well.”

Tee Grizzley is reveling in all parts of this album and its rollout. The whole process has pushed him to elevate every aspect of his creativity, from his sound to the style and direction of his music videos. Having such creative freedom is where the Motor City MC feels most comfortable.

“When I’m doing any story, unlimited thoughts come to my head like, ‘How could I create a favorite character for somebody?’” he adds. “’How could I make them fall in love with these characters? And how can I do something to spark some emotions in the people that’s watching it?’”

The music videos for Chapters of the Trenches evoke a range of feelings in the viewer, from happiness to sorrow. It’s almost impossible for someone not to feel anything at the sight of an innocent woman getting shot in the head (like in his “Jay & Twan 2” video), and Tee Grizzley takes his fans on an emotional journey.

“I want my audience to feel excitement, for sure,” he says. “Excitement, surprise… I want people to be surprised and feel things they wouldn’t expect. I want people to have ups and downs. I want them to have happy times and I want them to have lows too, to balance it out. I just want to take them on an emotional rollercoaster.”

When it comes to his peers, Tee Grizzley hopes they can be inspired by his music videos and embrace their own creativity and originality. After all, that’s what Hip Hop has always been about.

“I want other artists to take away that it is okay to be creative,” he says. “It’s okay to be creative and expand on your ideas. You ain’t got to try to do something that the next person doing because it’s working for them and may not for you. Be creative in your own way. We’re all individuals.”

With all the colorful personalities present in Hip Hop today, one can argue the competition is high when it comes to creativity. But Tee Grizzley sees it differently.

“I feel like there is a lack of passion in the art,” he admits. “In the sense that a lot of people do this shit just for the bag. That’s just as important because you got to eat, and you got to make it out and you got to pay your bills.

“But at the same time, I feel like if you just put the bag to the side and put all your passion in this shit and your real creativity, then you’re going to make yourself valuable. I want to become bigger than a bag. I want to become more valuable than a bag. It is deeper than that.”

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Although the stories in Chapters of the Trenches are fictional, there’s a strong sense of realism attached to them thanks to the lessons Tee Grizzley attempts to impart on his audience. There are always two sides to a story and Grizzley wants to touch on that because life isn’t always straightforward.

“The shit that’s cool, the shit that people want to show, and the shit that people want to see, is not reality,” he says. “It’s not reality, bro. Don’t nobody post a picture when they’re going through some shit. Nobody post a picture of their eviction.

“So what the world is feeding off of right now, it’s only your good moments and that’s not real because there’s good and bad. I got to show you there’s two sides to this shit.”

12 Oct 2022

Kanye West Professed His ‘Love’ For Hitler & Nazis During Infamous ‘TMZ’ Visit, Claims Van Lathan

Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic remarks are nothing new, according to Van Lathan.

The media personality claimed on his Higher Learning podcast on Tuesday (October 11) that Ye professed his love for Adolf Hitler and Nazis during his infamous visit to TMZ in 2018, where the rap mogul said slavery was a “choice.”

Lathan, who worked at TMZ until 2019, revealed he brought up the Holocaust while rebuking Kanye to illustrate the ignorance of his slavery comments. In response, Ye allegedly said he “loved Hitler and the Nazis.”

That portion of the interview, however, was edited out.

“I’ve already heard him say that stuff before,” Van Lathan said. “I mean, I was taken aback because that type of anti-Semitic talk is disgusting. But as far as him, I knew that that was in him because when came to TMZ, he said that stuff and they took it out of the interview.

“If you look at what I said at TMZ, it goes from me saying like, ‘Hey Kanye, there’s real-life, real-world implication to everything that you just said there.’ What I say after that — if I can remember, it’s been a long time — was, ’12 million people actually died because of Nazism and Hitler and all of that stuff,’ and then I move on to talk about what he said about slavery.”

He continued: “The reason they took it out is because it wouldn’t have made sense unless they kept in Kanye saying he loved Hitler and the Nazis, which he said when he was at TMZ. He said something like, ‘I love Hitler, I love Nazis.’ Something to that effect.”

Van Lathan also revealed that a Jewish staff member at TMZ challenged Kanye West over his comments about Hitler and Nazis. “One of the producers at TMZ actually stood up and said, ‘I’m Jewish and that is offensive to me what you just said,’” he recalled.

Having been privy to his anti-Semitic views in the past, Kanye West’s recent remarks came as no surprise to Van Lathan, who added: “When I saw this, I was like, ‘Oh, I knew that this was eventually coming.’ As a matter of fact, I had anticipated it coming, like, way earlier than this.”

Although Kanye West’s anti-Semitic remarks were left on the cutting room floor, Van Lathan said viewers can actually detect where that part of their conversation was edited out in the final version.

“If you go back and watch that clip, I say what I say and there’s a cut right there. People might think they stitched this together to make me seem more eloquent,” he said. “But they stitched it together to take out my reference to the Holocaust.”

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Van Lathan’s bombshell claim comes on the heels of Kanye West’s Instagram and Twitter accounts being restricted due to anti-Semitic posts.

In a text conversation with Diddy shared on Instagram last week, Ye claimed Puff was being turned against him by Jewish people after the Bad Boy boss criticized the “White Lives Matter” shirt he wore during Paris Fashion Week.

Kanye later vowed to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE” in a since-deleted tweet, in which he also wrote: “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also[.] You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

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Kanye reportedly made more anti-Semitic comments during an appearance on LeBron James’ YouTube series The Shop earlier this week, resulting in the episode being pulled.

“Kanye was booked weeks ago and, after talking to Kanye directly the day before we taped, I believed he was capable of a respectful discussion and he was ready to address all his recent comments. Unfortunately, he used The Shop to reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes,” Maverick Carter announced in a statement.

“We have made the decision not to air this episode or any of Kanye’s remarks. While The Shop embraces thoughtful discourse and differing opinions, we have zero tolerance for hate speech of any kind and will never allow our channels to be used to promote hate.”