Kanye West, the rapped who recently changed his moniker to the mononym Ye, went on a rant supporting President Donald Trump to a booing audience and laughing Chris Rock for “Saturday Night Live.”
Although Ye’s pro-Trump moment didn’t make it to air, Rock was thankfully there to record it and post it online for the whole world to witness.
The videos of Ye’s political speech tend to cut in and out, but based on the clip captured by Chris Rock as well as one published on The Daily Beast, it is fair to say that these were the most notable sentiments expressed by the famous musician:
“I wanna cry right now, black man in America, supposed to keep what you’re feelin’ in side right now…”
“The blacks want always Democrats… you know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare… does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.”
“There’s so many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist.’ Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would’ve moved out of America a long time ago.'”
“And when I said I’ll run in 2020… Now you’ve got a situation where we need to have a dialogue, and not a diatribe, because if you want something to change it’s not gonna… So it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so, so, so one-sided.”
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Ye’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live” was apparently a last minute arrangement. The plan had been for Ariana Grande to be the musical guest, but after she canceled at the last second, the show’s famous producer Lorne Michaels asked Ye to appear in her place, according to Vanity Fair. Ye has made six previous appearances on the show, as well as an appearance on the program’s 40th anniversary special, and when he appeared on Saturday he performed the songs “I Love It” and “K.T.S.E.” Things got political when he decided to don a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap during the closing credits and perform the song, “Ghost Town.”
These were the moments that appeared on air. What did not appear on air, apparently, was West’s political rant, which in addition to the excerpts above also apparently included this lashing out at people who have described his political support for Trump as analogous to the “sunken place” from the popular horror film “Get Out.”
“You wanna see the sunken place? Okay, Im’a listen to y’all now. I’ma put my superman cape on, because this means you can’t tell me what to do… You want the world to move forward? Try love,” West told the audience.
One person who was very positive about Ye’s performance? Right-wing pundit Candace Owens, who has expressed support for Ye in the past and who has been on the receiving end of support from the rapper.
I’m literally sitting through an hour of leftist propaganda just to watch @kanyewest perform. @nbcsnl is a high school drama class that does live improv of Washington Post articles.
I miss the days of real comedy.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
Kanye West is one of the bravest man in Hollywood right now. He was booed off stage last night for openly supporting Trump and telling the truth about the Democrats breaking down black families.
PLEASE RETWEET TO SHOW @kanyewest LOVE AND SUPPORT!https://t.co/NOAwWBOYRt
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
"They bullied me backstage. They said, 'don't go out there with that hat on. They bullied me backstage. They bullied me. And then they say I'm in a sunken place," –@kanyewest
To one of the most courageous spirits: THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP TO THE MOB.https://t.co/5foZESFI9R
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
“ya'll be going at [Trump] …I don't think it's actually that helpful. I think the universe has balance. 90% of news are liberal, 90% of TV, L.A., New York, writers, rappers, musicians. So it's easy to make it seem like it's so one-sided." —@kanyewest fighting for America on SNL
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
I’m about to go on a Kanye rant about a Kanye rant. Bear with me…
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
The entire @nbcsnl show last night was anti-Trump, anti-Kavanaugh, and anti-American. Kanye let them all act, waited until the end and then essentially called the entire cast out for what they are: COWARDS.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
The are COWARDS because they are too afraid to tell the truth. They march to the orders of Democrats and are too afraid to tell the truth about the heart and soul of America right now. They are too afraid to stand up the mob and tell the truth about Trump.
KANYE TOLD THE TRUTH.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
Now the headlines will read that @kanyewest is “crazy” and “bizarre”. Now they will try to intimidate @KimKardashian and her family into speaking out against Trump, because that’s what leftists do. They mob and they bully because they are COWARDS who just want power and control.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
.@kanyewest IS A HERO.
Shame on every single person, on both sides of the aisle, who couldn’t see that early on.
He is moving this country and the world forward with sheer bravery.
Remember that when you write your meaningless articles.
Real bravery takes risk.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
Art is supposed to move the world forward.
Writers are artists.
Actors are artists.
Singers are artists.They point the finger @kanyewest but it’s all of them that are in the sunken place.
They have abandoned art in favor of popularity.
The art world has been on its knees.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
You consider yourself an artist? What boundaries have you pushed?
Mocking Trump is not pushing a boundary.
Mocking republicans is not pushing a boundary.
The world will remember @kanyewest.
The world always remember true artists.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 30, 2018
Although Ye has traditionally aligned himself with left-wing political ideas, he began to express more pro-Trump sentiments shortly after the reality TV star won the 2016 presidential election, according to Vanity Fair. In November 2016, he told a crowd in San Jose that “if I would have voted, I would have voted on Trump. That don’t mean that I don’t think that black lives matter. That don’t mean I don’t believe in women’s rights. I wanted to say that before the election, but they told me, ‘whatever you do, don’t say that out loud.’ Not only did I not vote, but there were a lot of things I actually liked about Trump’s campaign. His approach was f—ing genius—because it worked.” He also argued, “Specifically to black people, stop focusing on racism. This world is racist, O.K.”
After meeting with the president-elect at Trump Tower in December, Ye returned to the subject of the president in April 2018 when he started tweeting increasingly political statements, including one that proclaimed “you don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I dont agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.”
