According to Page Six at The NY Post, the interview with Hot 97 host Ebro Darden came after West expressed his unexpected support for conservative activist and Black Lives Matter critic Candace Owens on Twitter.
“I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” West tweeted Saturday. The post followed a lengthy string of pseduo-philisophical one-liners and platitudes, including “all you have to be is yourself” and “images are limitless and words aren’t.”
Owens, who is black, has been criticized for her support of President Donald Trump and for her conservative political thoughts.
West took on groupthink and identity politics the next day, adding, “[W]e have freedom of speech but not freedom of thought.”
According to Darden, who recounted his conversation with the famed rapper on Monday’s “Ebro in the Morning” broadcast, West said he liked Owens because “she’s challenging conventional black thought.”
He also expressed love for Trump, Darden said, explaining that he had “reached out to Obama for years and couldn’t get anything done, but Trump gave me a meeting.”
Obama famously called West a “jackass” during a taping of an interview, and reportedly doubled down on that epithet later.
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld said West’s comments are significant not because he endorsed any conservative views, but because he demonstrated a tolerance for hearing them.
“He challenged the mob,” Gutfeld said. “Their goal is to stigmatize. Smears always shut down debate. … There’s nothing scarier to a leftist than a free thinker.”
The Atlanta-born rapper has a history of provocative, unexpected statements.
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