“I am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, that’s not real,” said TMZ’s Van Lathan after Kanye said slavery was a choice.
So we all know that Kanye has had a WEEK. He's professed his love for Trump/worn a MAGA hat, slammed Obama, and got the far right all excited.
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"When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years? That sounds like a choice," said Kanye. "You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned."
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The remarks quickly turned heads in the TMZ office.
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"I actually don't think you're thinking anything," said Van Lathan.
"I think what you're doing right now is actually an afterthought.
"Kanye, you're entitled to your opinion, you're entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real-world, real-life consequence behind everything you just said.
"And while you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you've earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives," Lathan said.
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"We have to deal with the marginalization that's come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was a choice," Lathan said.
"Every day we have to walk into that truth while you choose to say things that, to be honest with you, dog, are nonsensical.
"You want to think freely, that's fine, I'll combat your free thought with my free thought because mine is grounded in a reality that I have been living and a reality that I am going to change, but I'm not gonna do it by pretending that the enemies are on the same team as me."
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"And frankly, I'm disappointed, I'm appalled, and brother, I am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, that's not real," he said.
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Kanye's face as he was being schooled said it all.
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A TMZ source told BuzzFeed News that staffers were absolutely stunned when West began addressing the entire newsroom, and were even more shocked when Lathan pushed back. "That moment was not supposed to happen," the TMZ source said.
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But Kanye wasn't done. "Black people have a tendency to focus and march when a white person kills a black person or wears a hat," said Kanye, who has been hanging out in recent days with right-wing figures. "But when it is 700 kids being killed in Chicago, it's ok. It's ok for blacks to kill blacks!"
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Again, Lathan pushed back. "That's a lie!" he said.
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Kanye wanted to come closer to Lathan to continue their discussion. "If I come over there, you're not going to fight me?" he asked.
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"I am not going to hit Kanye West on TMZ," Lathan replied.
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"You gotta be responsible. Your voice is too big," Lathan told him.
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"There are people dedicating their lives to working throughout the problems of black people. There are black people every day, boots on the ground, they are all over the place working towards this," he said. "The narrative that black people don't care about black lives until a white person takes them is false. That is not true."
When reached for comment, Lathan referred BuzzFeed News to TMZ publicists.
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So, yes, to summarize:
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