What Did Quentin Tarantino Say About Kanye West’s ‘Django Unchained’ Claim?

Kanye West has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. People have been calling him out, companies have been cutting ties with the ‘Donda‘ rapper ever since he made anti-semitic tweets. West also sparked controversy after stating that ‘Django Unchained‘ was copied from his idea.

Quentin Tarantino, the director of the film, has now responded to the claims of the 45-year-old musician. Let’s find out if West’s claim were true or not regarding the revisionist western film.

Quentin Tarantino Responds To Kanye West’s ‘Django Unchained’ Claim

Ye has been in the news for his hateful comments. He took the time out to take a claim for a film. The rapper said that Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx got the idea of ‘Django Unchained‘ from him.

Now the 59-year-old filmmaker has dismissed Ye’s claims when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday. West said he pitched an idea when he came up with a music video idea for his 2005 song ‘Gold Digger,’ which features Foxx. It was eventually released in 2009 and centers on a montage of Foxx.

“There’s not truth to the idea that Kanye West came up with the idea of ‘Django’ and then he told that to me, and I go, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a really great idea. Let me take Kanye’s idea and make ‘Django Unchained’ out of it.’ That didn’t happen,” Tarantino said.

He continued, “I’d had the idea for ‘Django’ for a while before I ever met Kanye. He wanted to do a giant movie version of ‘The College Dropout’ [Ye’s debut studio album] the way he did the album.”

Tarantino Said He Had The Idea Before Meeting Kanye West

The ‘Pulp Fiction‘ director further added, “so he wanted to get big directors to do different tracks from the album and then release it as this giant movie – not video, nothing as crass as videos, it was movies, movies based on each of the different tracks.”

“We used it as an excuse to meet each other and and so we met each other we had a really good time. And he did have an idea for a video. I do think it was for the ‘Gold Digger’ video, that he would be a slave. And the whole thing was the slave narrative where he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger.’ And it was very funny. It was a really, really funny idea,” Tarantino added.

The host Jimmy Kimmel interjected: “It was a funny slave video, I mean”. Tarantino responded: “It was meant to be ironic. And it’s like a huge musical.”

“I mean, like no expenses spared with him in this slave rag outfit, doing everything. And then that was also part of the part of the pushback on it. But I wish he had done it. It sounded really cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”