Following a string of bigoted and offensive remarks by Kanye West, Balenciaga and Vogue declared that they would no longer be working with the rapper. Despite having an alleged beef with Ye, Trevor Noah said that he is “concerned” about Kanye.
An alleged beef between Noah and Kanye took place earlier this year after Noah condemned West for his incessant trolling of ex-wife Kim Kardashian on social media. West responded by directing a racial slur at Noah on Instagram, which led to West being temporarily banned on the platform for a day. Know more about the Kanye-Trevor beef.
What Is The Beef Between Trevor Noah And Kanye West?
An audience member asked Trevor Noah in his Daily show about his beef with Kanye. “Why am I beefing with Kanye? That’s an interesting way to phrase it because a beef has to go both ways,” Trevor told the audience member. “Genuinely it does. In my limited understanding of the world, beef has always been something that generally will happen between two hip hop artists. I’ve never beefed with Kanye West. I was concerned about Kanye West.”
Earlier this year, Noah condemned West for his incessant offensive comments against Kim Kardashian. Kanye responded with a racial slur against Noah, which eventually led Ye to be banned for a day from Instagram. Despite this bitter back and forth, Noah said that he was “concerned” about Kanye West. During his past media appearances, West has revealed that he struggles with mental illness. This has led people to defend West this time around regarding his anti-Semitic comments.
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Why Noah Is “Concerned” About Kanye West?
Noah did not specifically address West’s latest comments in his ‘Daily Show’. However, he did question why the media is continuing to give West a platform when it’s known that he has mental health issues. “If somebody says to me that they have a mental health issue,” Noah said, “and they say to everyone that when they don’t take their medication they’re unable to control themselves, and then everyone ignores when that person is having an episode and they haven’t taken the medication, and then they platform the person and then they put them up…I sometimes think it’s a little shitty, to be honest with you.”
“My grandfather was bipolar,” Noah continued. “I’m not saying Kanye is. I’m just saying my grandfather was bipolar, and one thing we knew was when he was having one of his episodes. He could act in a certain way and could do certain things…but our job was to support him. It would be weird if I was there going, ‘Oh, my grandfather’s having an episode again. I’m going viral tonight!’ I think it’s a little bit strange.”
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Why Noah Is Refusing That He Does Not Have Beef With Ye?
“I don’t have beef with a human being who has expressed openly that they’re dealing with a mental health issue. I don’t have beef with that human being,” Noah said. “What I have beef with is us as society not coming together around the person and going like, ‘Hey, maybe this is not the moment to put a microphone in your face so that you just go off saying everything.’ If this is what you want to say when you’re on your medication, then that’s a different story. But because you’ve told us that, I’m not going to sit by and say that.”
Noah concluded by saying he has “never had beef” with Kanye West. “I’m still playing ‘College Dropout.’ I’m still playing the music. I still love the man that I think he is. And I understand that he’s gone through a lot, you know, and I don’t take that for granted. But I’ve promised myself I’ll never be the person who just sits by and gleefully says things about people that I care about and then also joins the group of mourners afterwards and acts like I wasn’t part of it. Too many people like to mourn you when you’re dead and they don’t say anything to you when you’re alive. So I don’t know where to end. But that’s it.”
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