Kanye West calls Ebro Darden to say "I love you" following Donald Trump disagreement
The rapper and radio host are having public differences over the President.
A day after Ebro Darden publicly (re-)revealed Kanye West as a supporter, or at least a believer, of Donald Trump, the rapper has responded with nothing but “love” for the Hot 97 DJ.
Here’s how it started. Over the weekend, West took to Twitter to praise controversial conservative personality Candace Owens, writing, “I love the way [she] thinks.” Naturally, he faced backlash from many, including Darden.
Darden’s critiques led to a private phone conversation between the two men—a discussion that Darden then detailed live while on air yesterday. Vulture reports that “according to Darden, Kanye said he intended to contextualize his Owens tweet and ‘wanted to have open dialogue,’ but then decided ‘let me just take this heat right now and maybe people will understand when I put the music out.’”
Darden also reported, “[Kanye] said, ‘I do love Donald Trump. Kanye West quote: ‘I love Donald Trump.’ [Kanye] was like, ‘I reached out to Obama for years and I couldn’t get anything done. Trump gave me a meeting.’ I said, ‘Trump played you, bro.’”
Co-host Peter Rosenberg then doubled-down on Darden’s report, tweeting, “Biggest take away from Ebro in the Morning today … Kanye West is still an avid Donald Trump supporter..you can process that however you like but if you’re waiting for him to say “my bad” about his trump statements — don’t hold your breath.”