Multiple-award winning American artiste, Kanye West is no stranger to controversy. In fact, his addiction to the dramatic lost him nine million Twitter followers in 10 minutes last week after he released a slew of tweets praising President Donald Trump.
“You don’t have to agree with Trump, but the mob can’t make me not love him,” said West. “We are both dragon energy. He is my brother.”
The 21-time Grammy Award winner continued along this line on Tuesday in an interview with TMZ when he described former President Barack Obama as the “opioids” of the black community.
He said, “Obama was our opioids. It made us feel like everything was good.”
The artiste described black people as being unnecessarily emotional, stating: “Black people have a tendency to focus and march when a white person kills a black person or wears a hat, but when it’s 700 kids being killed in Chicago it’s O.K. … There’s been more focus and more marches about whites killing blacks than kids in Chicago killing each other.”
He accused the American media of constructing a false narrative that black men had to be perfect to be considered successful.
“This perfect idea of a superhero with Obama, or Michael Jordan — I want to show people that it is ok to screw up, and you still can make it through things.”
West said that this had negatively affected Obama, who, he said, became detached from the middle and lower classes.
He said that Donald Trump was able to leverage on his connection to the middle and lower classes to get himself into the Oval Office.
“The class war is one of the reasons why Trump won, because Obama was so high class that it stopped speaking to the middle and the lower class,” he said. “He’s so classy, and to break the class system, we have to start by loving ourselves.”