Kanye West Gets Slammed By TMZ Staffer | The Daily Show With Trevor Noah

During a live interview on TMZ, Kanye West was slammed for making outrageous comments about slavery by TMZ staffer Van Lathan.
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[@latoyaforever]

Going blonde is a choice LMAO😭

[@msgirly6827]

Hyperion Prime were you ever relevant?

[@muhammadnabeelah8210]

😅😅😅😅😅😂😂

[@buddies8757]

billions for military, billions for israel per years.. but minimum for education?? sound like "american"

[@JAppJohnAndrewPatrickPeters]

It's not "america" it's murica...lol

[@nacho1595]

Billions for education too

[@cherrycolaaa]

SHUT UP ANTISEMITE 😡😡

[@MaxVerhaag]

how is he an antisemite? it is insane that the US sponsors a regime that continuesly keep pushing their borders into other people's lands and keeps shooting the people who act against this gross violation.

[@roberthsa9475]

"murica"

[@6ixConfessions]

Kanye thinks too highly of himself. People with monumental egos never cease to amaze me just how important & intelligent they think they are.

[@stevencooke6451]

Truly intelligent people are usually fairly modest, or at worst, realistic about their intellect. People who refer to themselves as being a "genius", "the greatest" (except perhaps, Muhammad Ali) or some other superlative are trying to compensate for something,

[@HoIlowtree]

Kayne has so many fears like being forgotten hes not the greatest artist in the world its self proclaimed (when MJ or the Beatles was said to be the biggest artist it was said by other artists by the world and it showed in their sales) his record sales dont show it and I know he makes music for others but hes not the main name on it I can only assume he accounts those as well. He seeks recognition so terribly one day hes gonna wake up be old and realize he's not so great and wasted his life trying to convince people who didnt care, he has some major self issues going on deep his ego comes from everyone overly praising him everyone says yes to him he seems like an extremely delicate human being that cant handle being disliked.

[@6ixConfessions]

And marrying into a family filled with egotistical people doesn't help his cause either.

[@4LIVEMUSICVIBES]

He is clearly talking about mind-slavery: Some Kanye West quotes from the FULL INTERVIEW (not the extended... the FULL): "We've been controled by the media " "We are following other people's opinions " " Yeah, right now we're choosing to be enslaved" " By that you're choosing to enslave people's minds " 400years of MIND-SLAVERY - Pretty self-explanatory. But you just read titles and watch short cuts thus proving 100% the media control on people that Kanye was speaking about

[@thembitabata3079]

Yes!!!!

[@blt4life112]

I'm hoping for Bush jr to make an appearance somewhere and say. "Kanye West doesn't care about black people."

[@MrNickLancelot]

No matter what sort of criticism Bush Jr gets thrown at him, being this tasteless and low class isn't one of them.

[@feetup7628]

I never understood why people call kayne a genius?... genius are people like einstein, hawking and people like alan turing.

[@chokinonashes61]

OG ThC Exactly! He might twiddle knobs, but genius he ain't!

[@sickofit1304]

genius among stupid.

[@AaraliRam]

The way he flipped samples and influenced a whole wave of hip hop made him a genius. Not all geniuses are in the sciences. To simplify it as pushing buttons or speeding up old soul songs would be close minded.

[@IrenaDeacon]

OG ThC music genious because he truly is one

[@IrenaDeacon]

Ramanan exactly

[@chepe-xt7gp]

If killmonger had won the thone to Wakanda kanye would be the first person he killed for that commentary

[@oradrive745]

José Carlos Alfaro I would have love to see that

[@PsyCorpKVM]

Come on this is not a fictitious fantasy world. It's the real deal wake tfup

[@leejanengolehman6718]

José Carlos Alfaro lmao

[@rosa61217]

Wouldn't Killmonger actually agree with the idea that (black) people need to free themselves from bsing mentally enslaved and rise up...?

[@NewMessage]

Kanye is angling for a Trump Administration Cabinet position.

[@TheKaiTetley]

Kayne is one of Trumps alter egos. Think about it.

[@MrAizatazmi]

he can replace Ben Carson

[@bleepdupdupbloop6777]

General of dragon energy

[@2352anne]

New Message... Kanye fits all the criteria - loudmouthed, stupid and opinionated!

[@IrenaDeacon]

New Message hehehe

[@tamcao3996]

I can’t with the short film in the end😂😂😂😂 so brilliant

[@hushedtones7168]

wanna know something funnier, those people with torches are probably paid by democrats (george soros) to attend those events to make the speakers look bad because they show up all the time. then it gives an argument to tv anchors to tell you not to listen to these people because when you listen to them you start to realize how you were misled by the left/democrats/establishment/deepstate. and you realize the "facts" they gave you don't match up at all and the indoctrination you got in school and through radio and tv was misleading

[@tamcao3996]

Hushed Tones well not like trump and republicans ever said facts

[@miam.1083]

I feel sorry for Kanye sometimes, but The reality is that there is a lot people that think and feel that way, that scares me “your ancestors suffered because they chose to” WOW 😮

[@jessicaluo6739]

That's what happens when you sell you're soul.

[@7rueop1n1on5]

Jiaqi Luo That's what happens when you sell you are soul? Wtf does that mean, go back to school. Kanye is revolutionizing Black people in America.

[@neachabrissett3341]

Jiaqi Luo so true

[@mariahammarstrom7934]

You´re = you are. Your = possessive pronoun that indicates that the thing coming up next in the sentence belongs to you.

[@ValirAmaril]

Oh COME on

[@hushedtones7168]

that's what happens when you are a free thinker trying to make people think for themselves, media demonize you because they feed off brain zombies who prefer to be told what to think

[@aleryani9828]

if he really believes what he is saying and this is not just attention to his new album or new shoes then give them out for free.

[@walkz007]

this!!!

[@lucamolta]

you should ref this to will.i.am thats where you heard it right? yes i agree though. He must know this is going to hurt people, much like supporting trump. if he doesnt he's certainly blinded by narcissism, i dont know, he has never seemed empathetic to me. If rich musicians where going around doing good for thier community like some artists are then kids wouldn't think that what is great about success or wealth is flaunting it and spending it on expensive things. That success is far more interesting than that, that freedom from the daily struggle is about more than looking good and being ostentatious, that life is more than that.

[@7rueop1n1on5]

aleryani 98 Is what he is saying wrong? And if yes, then how so?

[@kbpeters4246]

There was no choice. There had been several slave rebellions but they all but a tiny fraction ended up with the people severely punished. Either they were shot or were branded. Sometimes, when a slave managed to run away the remaining slaves were punished. It was a harsh method of ensuring that all slaves kept an eye on each other. Of course there was the underground railroad but that too ran high risks. After 1865, Jim Crow laws were a new form of slavery. Slaves had been literally praying for change for centuries but to no avail. It only changed when the dominate part of Society was ready for change. If Kanye was speaking metaphorically - about people's perception of reality then he REALLY SUCKS as communicating. It is my opinion that Kanye does not know his history AND he lacks skills in rherotic. He is obliviously NOT a genius.

[@SK-hd1yk]

will.i.am

[@dianaofmarkham]

😂😂😂😂😂 that film was funny, it should be longer. And Kanye West you are an embarrassment to humanity.

[@karanvarma4843]

Diana Of Markham no you are an embarrassment to humanity

[@lianmawii]

no u

[@Meerzie]

Why exactly? Because he voiced a different opinion? TMZ takes shit out of context and everyone believes their own rhetoric

[@7rueop1n1on5]

Diana Of Markham You're an embarrassment to humanity along with anyone who thinks like you. What Kanye did was bring reality to the mainstream, like intelligent Black people have been trying to do for years without a platform. Kanye is going to revolutionize Black people in America if he doesn't back down from this process.

[@NovaKnight_]

They need to pitch that trailer to Jordan Peele 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@LightworkBeacon]

I just keep thinking how eloquent and majestic it was for the TMZ staffer to speak up.

[@MrKingoverall]

Kanye West proves that in the end you shouldn't be a college dropout.

[@mustie3492]

Instead being drowned in debt is better than following your dreams

[@spearjackhamer7494]

kanye "uncle ruckus" west no relation

[@ingloriousbasterd3067]

Kanye just destroyed his" being a white man" dream along with his con man career.

[@joeroberts2156]

"I just might have to talk to HR bout that!" ouch! hahahahahahaha!

[@vogueflower7384]

Love how people are cherry picking the interview. No one is showing the part where he apologises and explains the bigger picture

[@francisindinibotwey840]

Am sorry but there is no apologising here . As a black person he shouldn’t have said that

[@francisindinibotwey840]

@We Up no he didn’t . He was being ignorant.

[@sxxxxxlxxx]

@We Up Nah lol Kanye doesn’t “seem” ignorant and crazy he IS ignorant and crazy. Also off his meds. And really wtf are you even talking about? You off your meds too?

[@duncandeeks3639]

This is why its important to think carefully before you open your mouth, it doesnt matter what he meant by saying that the fact is that whatever he was trying to say was poorly said and disgraceful for a man of his age.

[@MrCateye111]

Thats what happen when you spent too much time with trump.

[@nunyabuisness3017]

MrCateye111 is it trump or kardashians? Weird shit happens to any guy that goes into that household.

[@VCYT]

Fortunately most get fired so quickly they never met Trump.

[@nacho1595]

You wake up?

[@IkramulHasanLV]

becoming rich and dumb is a choice. hard work hard work....................

[@neivilde.1242]

wow that Rise reference came out of nowhere!

[@antehls1]

Should watch the full interview on tmz instead of just a few seconds

[@animelytical8354]

The slavery choice trailer was EXCELLENT

[@brendantan9195]

I understand why Kanye said slavery was a choice. Simply put, he meant that they allowed themselves to be in that situation, accepted their environment without retaliation. So we should never accept whats being told on us and fight for your rights. I believe it was not his intention to be that disrespectful. However, his argument was really in poor taste as we can never relate to those who were being enslaved, it wasnt exactly a choice as we have the ease of technology and information to be informed. Whereas, those who were being enslaved were born into an environment where they were told that they were less of a human being from the moment that they were born. With that environment, brainwashing, propaganda, how could anyone have an independent state of thought. The media took his words out of context and sad for him, Kanye really put his life on the line this time round.

[@itumo2645]

Well there were hundreds of rebellions throughout the Americas. People just didn’t sit back and accept their condition.

[@malikasaparova3683]

What is that movie? Really want to see

[@darkmagnis2902]

Roy Wood Jnr is a class act!

[@ZandeKongo]

Call someone a genius long enough they'll believe it, and start acting like a fool.

[@specialpatrolgroup92]

"They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips. "

[@dcsupremebasketball5358]

I swear I've seen all of this happen in a episode of boondocks before

[@navatejavardhan8965]

Expressions he gives are epic

[@Iamsoul00]

LOL the ending. I never really watched this show but Roy Woods is hilarious.

[@mosesmatundu902]

I gave up Trevor is good at making bad situation look funny

[@kbpeters4246]

So Trevor is good at his job then....satire.

[@metalloproteases]

Also good at taking other people's words out of context to fit his narrative

[@ds1011]

Mosesveroo Matundu it wasn't funny at all,did he evn watch the full vid? He really shouldn't talk like that

[@gamerguy8476]

They cut the part where he called him a genius

[@gamerguy8476]

Marxine St.Arline to fit the narrative

[@CALCIUM17]

They cut everything that didn't fit the "kanye is crazy" narrative

[@adjacent-smith]

Calling him a genius seemed weird like he thought it could turn Kanye and you could see it have effect on him. Tmz was like one of those mk ultra videos. The third picture on the wall thing seemed like ego at first but there was that moment of weird acknowledgement about the deeper meaning

[@EricGallant24]

Y’all are always taking things out of context

[@Gamenetreviews]

Kanye never said this, surprised they didn’t call him an Uncle Tom. Totally misrepresent that conversation.

[@rubysusannahplukaard286]

0:23 to about 30seconds. . am i listening to a southpark newscast?

[@rbegum1952]

Now that’s CHOICES

[@dogfacedsoldier327]

This was a gimmick to get people to buy his new album. Watch how the sheeple buy his new album.

[@workbased683]

How do you double "like"?

[@sylvesterjonas9141]

He said LIKE A CHOICE NOT WAS A CHOICE!

[@jjviolator]

Uncle tom + uncle ruckus + Stephen from Django Unchanined = Kanye

[@adii_reis]

YEAH !!! Kanye got his "ass kicked" and he deserved!

[@PsyCorpKVM]

No man he didn't they cut and chop the clip just enough to fit their narrative. He actually schooled TMZ watch the whole video

[@adii_reis]

I did, He said some interesting things, but the PROBLEM with Kanye is, he has some good things to say, but he chooses the WRONG words.

[@nimrodery]

LOL so you're admitting he was right but you say he got schooled. The media is working this one _hard._

[@adii_reis]

No i did NOT say that He is right! I said the says things in a WRONG way, if you agree with what he says, well.. thats YOUR problem!

[@nimrodery]

So you didn't say "he has some good things to say?" Could've sworn that was you. Does "good" mean incorrect?

[@imimbunjana6754]

He said “that sounds like a choice “

[@niazgulhazarboz9043]

Watch will-iam reaction to Kanye West's "choice" comments on British TV. It really hits home !

[@sizwenzama3614]

powerfull words kanye needs to get someone to put him in his place

[@puddlemini]

yo but that last bit reminded me of Uncle Tom type "Black people are always happy" side-character tropes

[@ymiice]

this one is my favourite..

[@zainshifo]

I don't think that's what he meant.

[@hevedence3941]

Zain Al Saadi you’re right that’s not what he meant, but he should’ve known better

[@hevedence3941]

Zain Al Saadi especially coming from an african american himself

[@Universalbeing0]

Ahsan Ahmed He did it you watched the full video and stop listening to this foolish propoganda.

[@nimrodery]

"he should’ve known better" Exactly the point Kanye was making. People are curbing their speech and their ideas because they're afraid of what people will say and how they'll react.

[@love9876ful]

nimrodery how is what he said right or correct. Since when is slavery a choice!?!? The whole defination of slavery is forced work

[@Celtic4Leaf]

Trevor was that white person making the call. lol

[@revolution1557]

Play the full interview u media piece

[@Dru529]

Aye I wanna be in this movie.

[@mariacuadra5942]

Lmao 😂 that clip was superb! 😂🤣

[@tiaedwards3587]

Hello police 😂😂

[@philiq18]

From 3:19 onwards is the best bit!

[@Nicciolai]

Can someone give Kanye West some books by Octavia Butler? Especially Kindred.

[@fushion999]

All this over a black guy saying he supports Trump. And to imagine I once sided with liberals...when I was in my adolescence and had no clue about the real world!

[@jamesorme6296]

Slavery was not a choice for either the African-American people and the irish who were enslaved or anyone all around the world

[@bp4502]

The irish were not enslaved. It was indentured servitude. A contract of X number of years and you're free to do anything you want (many purchased land). African Americans faced chattel slavery, never ending slavery for the slave and his children

[@khanmaida]

james orme the Irish were colonized, not enslaved, there's a difference.

[@victoriashevlin8587]

M.K. We were colonised, yes. We were also kidnapped en mass from coastal towns and sold into slavery.

[@jamesorme6296]

The irish were both colonized and enslaved depending on the time and location

[@GSThai]

Can’t really compare to African slavery situation. Plus you don’t suffer from the legacy of it today ....

[@sports4160]

*Don't* *Marry* *a* *Kardashian*

[@kristinamaguire2016]

Maybe you should have shown that whole interview. Kanye made some really good points about how to move forward. I found this a really disappointing take.

[@gargigingerly]

Every second of RWJ is the best thing ever :D

[@metalloproteases]

No he wasn't. People should watch the full interview and hear Kanye's rebuttal before making a reaction. Kanye raised some logical points. The problem with people like Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah is that their brand of comedy takes snippets of what other people say and place it out of context.

[@mehreengul2681]

Wow my entire high school population is 500 students and I live in a big city, my class size is literally 25 students . Than again I go to a private school , which I think is unfair. Private or public education should be equal.

[@lordtoffington3664]

I love the way he can go places only mixed race people can go.

[@g00gle-]

What a great transition . Rofl

[@vazak11]

Great coverage, wow epic dressing down of Kayne and very necessary.

[@Abraxis86]

I had my abdomen opened up, a seven inch entry, cut clean in two -an unplanned emergency exploratory surgery which ended with having my bowel removed. Due to the improvised conditions I regained full sensation within 10 hours of the procedure. It took me 2 years just to be able to talk about it, just to think about it. That kind of pain breaks your psyche into pieces, like your mind quarantines that memory along with anything close to it. You lose yourself, literally, and it's very hard to confront in order to get it back. Not hard in the "don't be lazy sense", but hard in the nose gushing blood "I'm going to give you a seizure and maybe even kill you if you don't stop trying to unlock this" kind of sense. These slaves were tortured constantly, until they were broken, and then they were tortured more just for fun. Submission wasn't a choice, to fight the impossible fight against their oppressors they would first have to fight an impossible fight just to regain control of themselves. -Many of them starving, uneducated, and inducted as children.... impossible. You can not imagine my fight, and I cannot imagine theirs. This fucking joker though, who's never known anything but luxury has got it all figured out. He's never tasted hell, never-mind has he walked the road out of it... you can see it in the eyes Kanye still has the eyes of a fucking child, you want to see what I'm talking about, John McCain is a great example. I would love the chance to show Kanye what he thinks he's talking about, and see just how long it takes him to "choose" anything ever again. I suspect a mind like his would crack quite easily, and never find its way together again. He's already a blathering moron to whom introspection is a foreign concept. Nevermind with a demon inside waiting to rip you to shreds just for looking at it -and nevermind finding a way to tame it -and then nevermind overpowering country, culture, and millions of entitled hicks with guns who want nothing more than to put you down, and maybe rape you first. Oh but it's Kanye, he writes "music" about being a badass, so he's got the dragon blood. Oh brother would I love to meet and taste that blood, I'll bet it still tastes like mother's milk.

[@Eknoor_Kaur_Bawa]

Abraxis I am so sorry you had to go through that ! I hope your mental health is better now! You are absolutely right....

[@Abraxis86]

​@@Eknoor_Kaur_Bawa Lol nope, much worse. And it looks like they might even elect this guy as president of USA. So that's cool too. Thankyou though ♥ I should probably delete that, but meh

[@Chidulo]

Kanye watched Django differently

[@lucifersgames6699]

Is it weird that I want to watch that movie

[@ashii6040]

This made my day

[@melmiread5901]

😂🤣...”no Kanye,slavery is not a choice.going blonde is a choice”.😂🤣true is da

[@leonidas0242]

Real life uncle ruckus

[@kpaterson9717]

Calling HR. .

[@catchemslippen1572]

5th day of strikes psshhht my unis going on week 9....

[@greymouser8659]

Kanye 'think'.....spare us

[@huck638]

I study English. Can anybody tell me where this news anchor's accent is from?

[@staticage]

South-Africa bro

[@huck638]

Eugene Schenck Thanks. It's difficult to identify. It sounds neither British nor American.

[@Evangelionism]

If Kanye wasn't referring to what I think he was trying to,, he was likely talking his shit. For those who have no idea what that spaghetti means, basically, I'm referring to what some people call "indentured servants". Personally, I don't see that great a deal of a difference but in this case, he may have meant such. 400 years? I've heard about a concept of "indentured servants", or as Kanye said, those who made the choice, coming over here (N America) to work in labour, earn profit, and leave back home. These were *apparently* contracted workers, and with the fulfillment of their terms was a leaving back home. I don't know what to think about that.... But he may have been trying to imply something (that obviously failed terribly). Oh, and no one is trying to defend or protect the rapper.... Just relaying some controversial info. See, Kanye (and all else alike)? This is what happens when you try to tell only part-truths.... If that is what you meant to do.

[@wallysalman2260]

What if I told you all the people that are protesting could be the ones making all they demand to happen. They just need to redirect their time and efforts and understand how the community works. All we are doing is telling someone to tell us to do what we want to do. Let that sink in.

[@wallysalman2260]

Also, slavery as a choice for 400 years means that we've been okay with someone pointing a gun at us and saying work. It's a new form of slavery called debt...in time that will dissolve because debt just means someone else issuing us the power to do work and better our lives.

[@jonathanlehoux6550]

Way to show Kanye's without the inconvenient context around it

[@roimores5677]

1:08 That "sounds" like a choice. Don't get his words out of context. Watch the full interview before hating the crazy man.

[@TheHellogoo]

I dont think Kanye said that slavery was a choice, i think he said or at least the way i understood it, that nowadays people impede their own progress by imprisoning their thoughts and identities to the past.

[@holister444]

also, technically, slaves do have choice unless they are literally in chains. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus doesn't mean slavery is OK.

[@edwinbomela4188]

Taken out of context. But ok media we heard you.

[@kgotsoaubrey7772]

trevor should interview kanye

[@alfarydml1508]

Trevor Noah, you are amazingly funny 🍺🍺

[@loraz5343]

Kanya is just stirring up attention for his new album that's gonna drop, he does this every time guys come on

[@theholyquran539]

It’s about mind slavery now Not about the past

[@mrnobody6603]

There are two different statements that came out "400 years of slavery was a choice" which the media is using Instead they should use "400 years of slavery to me it sounds like a choice" These statements are different

[@Shasa3495]

I think people have misunderstood what Kanye was trying to say... *just saying* still researching...

[@pprkt0]

Did anyone even understand what he said .. or were they all busy getting offended .. no body wants to ge into the nuances

[@francisindinibotwey840]

There is no way to understand this . It doesn’t make sense from any angle . Because slavery wasn’t a choice and neither was mental slavery. Go and read or go find yourself a dictionary

[@BrianGriffen71]

Kanye West is the modern day 'Stephen' from 'Django Unchained' or better known as a 'Bounty' or 'Uncle Tom'.

[@SeanKarleone]

Not " it was"

[@SeanKarleone]

It '"Sounds"

[@isaacmelvin6678]

Watch the full Kanye interview and you'll see what really happened

[@athnibisri2038]

Slavery is not a choice, going blonde is a choice 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@zaroffhound]

No living human being has a right to coerce or compel a fellow being against their will. Pity no one thought to write this down at some point somewhere, what with all the writing every damn human keeps holding up as holy writ...

[@cleoaitchison9716]

I implore you all to go watch the original video posted by TMZ of the whole conversation before you make up your mind on the matter. Both Van Lathan and Kanye has more to say than is being portrayed in this video. If you only look at surface of any debate as deep as this, then you'll never get anywhere in terms of what to learn from it. Some really powerful things were mentioned by both sides and I don't think Trevor Noah does justice to either one of them.

[@georgemophaty6854]

Ha ha ha Trevor is genius

[@ilpezkato]

1:23 Hahahahaha!!!

[@PLEASANTGIFFT]

Thankyou - the saddest thing is, many black people believe what Kanye said. Preparing a next generation of black youths to question themselves by self doubting their greatness.