Kanye West Claims Quentin Tarantino And Jamie Foxx ‘Got The Idea’ For ‘Django Unchained’ From His Pitch

Kanye West claims that he was the one who originally presented the idea for Django Unchained to filmmaker Quentin Tarantino as a music video for one of his songs.

This week, the rapper made an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Morgan had earlier in the week hinted that the interview would be "extraordinary" and "fiery."

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The two talked about a wide range of topics, including West's past controversial remarks regarding the Jewish community and his former relationship with reality star Kim Kardashian.

But when West brought up a film by Quentin Tarantino, who he believes stole the idea from him, the debate suddenly took a surprising turn.

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The idea for the 2012 western film Django Unchained, which follows a former slave (Jamie Foxx) as he teams up with a bounty hunter to rescue his wife, actually arose from West's concept for the 2005 music video for the popular song "Gold Digger," which also has Foxx as a featured singer.

West told Morgan: “Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where – actually him and Jamie [Foxx], they got the idea from me because the idea for Django I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger’.”

“And then Tarantino turned it into a film."

In other parts of the conversation, West discussed his anti-Semitic remarks about "going death con 3 on Jewish people," which led to his Twitter ban.

He was also kicked off Instagram for saying: "Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me."

While West initially defended his statements by saying he was "happy to have crossed the line" and felt "glad" to be removed from the social media platforms, he now admits they were racist.

Morgan asked West if he regretted what he had said, and at first, West responded: "No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Absolutely not."

But when the host pushed him, saying that his anti-Semitic remarks were "as racist as anything you say you've been through," West said that he did believe his remarks to be racist.

He said: "Yeah obviously, that's why I said it. Yes, I fought fire with fire, I'm not here to get hosed down, it's a different type of freedom fighter.”

Later on in the conversation, West apologized for the "hurt and confusion" his remarks had brought about.

He said: "You know I will say I'm sorry for the people that I hurt with the 'DEFCON', the confusion that I caused.”

"I feel like I caused hurt and confusion and I'm sorry for the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I had been through, and I used my platform where you say hurt people."