Kanye West Finally Answer’s Jimmy Kimmel’s Trump Question, Apologizes for Slavery Comment and Compares His Spirit to Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner

Kanye West has been a prime bullseye for all sorts of medi, now, with his Jimmy Kimmel interview still under the focus of it all. Recently, as Pitchfork has noted, Kanye has finally answered a question that has taken him some months to respond to.

This morning West took to the guest stage on 107.5 WGCI Chicago in which he addressed quite a few issues that seemed to have been plaguing him. Of course, the radio hose had to bring up the Kimmel question, hoping to finally get an answer. The DJ says, “You so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’ It makes me wonder, what makes you think that Donald Trump does?”

There was some silence on the air until Yeezy mentioned the word “Kimmel.” He follows the word, saying that he feels “[Trump] cares about the way black people feel about him, and he would like for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this. He will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he’s got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can’t be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community. So it’s something he’s gonna work towards, but we’re gonna have to speak to him.”

With this in mind, it is not that Kanye is completely flip-flopping on his stance on Trump, but rather he has taken to thought, it seems, to digest why he feels how he feels. West has also taken the time to take note on his comments about slavery being a choice. He states how wrong of a statement he made and that slavery “seemed like a choice in the spirit of Kanye West,” but that he knows it was and is a much more severe mode of oppression. At first, it did not make sense to him how so many people were controlled by so few. He does, however, take the time, in his interview, to apologize for his comments as he knows how badly he has incensed some people.

During this interview, West also touched on the Drake beef with Pusha T and so forth. In his response, Ye talks about his love for family and friends and that sometimes friends get in each others faces. Even though Drake has pulled him into the fire and the flames, West still carries on as he focuses on healing and forgiveness.