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Trevor Noah defended Kanye West from detractors this week, explaining why he criticized the rapper’s decision to ban him from performing at the comedian’s Grammy Awards earlier this year.
“Humans are a paradox,” the “Daily Show” host said on Thursday’s “Awards Circuit” podcast. is a complex paradox as a whole. .”
Noah said before the Grammy Awards in April that the rapper had racially assaulted him on social media after the host of the “Daily Show” segment accused him of “harassing” his ex Kim Kardashian. He clashed with West when he threw a slanderous slur.
The Grammys barred West from appearing after he posted it on Instagram, but the comedian who hosted the ceremony tweeted in March that it had nothing to do with the decision, telling the Recording Academy, “Kanye. “I advise you not to cancel Kanye,” he said.
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Kanye West (right) was banned from performing at the Grammys earlier this year for failing to slander Trevor Noah with racist language on social media.
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Noah said on the podcast, “I’ve become more comfortable speaking my mind in situations where it feels like the mob has forgotten we’re dealing with humans.” It’s easy to see a crash and say nothing about it, and after a train crashes off the tracks we say ‘Oh, I saw it coming!’ , why didn’t you say anything? You owe it to yourself to tell the truth, especially if you have some kind of platform. See something and say something.
He said the rapper made an “indelible impression” on him and that his music has helped him through various periods of his life.
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Host Trevor Noah speaks on stage at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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“But there are moments where I’m like, ‘Hey Kanye, you’re getting sidetracked here.’ You can say, ‘I’m not going to hate you all of a sudden, I’m not going to care. ‘ That’s how I try to see the world and I hope people see me. ”
In an interview, he spoke out against cancellation culture, saying that everyone should have a chance to “redeem” themselves.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West attend the Balenciaga show as part of Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2020/2021 in Paris, France on March 1, 2020.
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“I think we’re very comfortable with throwing humans out, throwing them out right away, and making them irredeemable characters,” he said. I think we should be given a chance to redeem, we should all have a chance to redeem.”
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson attended the 2022 Met Gala together in May.
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After West and Kardashian split, West has been widely criticized for his rhetoric against Kardashian and her ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson. And after the Saturday Night Live alum split with Kardashian, Davidson jokingly proclaimed himself “died at 28” through a fake New York Times front page.
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West has made other comments that seem to suggest violence against Davidson, including rapping about beating up “Pete Davidson’s…” in a music video earlier this year. In the video, the animated version of West kidnaps an animated Davidson and buries him alive.
