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Kanye West Claims Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx Stole Idea for ‘ Django Unchained’ from Him

In a controversial interview with Piers Morgan the rapper claims that Django Unchained was inspired by a music video idea he pitched to Tarantino and Jamie Foxx in 2005

Christian Zilko Oct 22, 2022 7:34 pm Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk “Django Unchained” /Courtesy Everett Collection Add Quentin Tarantino to the ever-growing list of Kanye West enemies. In a new interview with Piers Morgan, West complained that Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” was based on an idea that the Oscar winner stole from West. He claims that after collaborating with Jamie Foxx on the 2005 song “Gold Digger,” which featured Foxx's vocals and sampled Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman." West said he pitched Foxx and Tarantino the idea for a slavery-themed music video for the song. West alleges that some of his ideas for that video were eventually used in Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” "Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where – actually him and Jamie, they got the idea from me because the idea for ‘Django,’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for 'Gold Digger,'” West said. “And then Tarantino turned it into a film." If any of that actually happened, West appears to have forgiven Foxx for it. West recently praised Foxx in a now-deleted Instagram post where he asked his followers a hypothetical question about who should play him in a movie.

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