N.O.R.E. Apologizes For Comments Kanye West Made Claiming George Floyd’s Death Was Due To An Overdose & Not Police Brutality, Claims He Did Check The Rapper A Few Times During The Controversial Interview + Says The Wrong Edit Of The Interview Was Published

N.O.R.E. Apologizes For Comments Kanye West Made Claiming George Floyd’s Death Was Due To An Overdose & Not Police Brutality, Claims He Did Check The Rapper A Few Times During The Controversial Interview + Says The Wrong Edit Of The Interview Was Published

Rapper and Drink Champs host, N.O.R.E. is apologizing to the public and the family of George Floyd for the negative remarks and misinformation Kanye West said during the latest episode of his popular podcast.

In the interview, as previously reported, the billionaire musician made incorrect remarks about the cause of death in the murder of George Floyd, made anti-semitic comments, and defended his reason behind wearing his “white lives matter” shirt. His comments garnered so much backlash, even the attorney for the Floyd family spoke out against Kanye West. Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt later announced that Floyd’s family is considering a lawsuit against Ye over “false statements about the manner of his death.”

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Merritt tweeted,

“While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death.

Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.”

Now, N.O.R.E. is issuing an apology to the public as well as George Floyd’s family. During a call-in appearance on Monday’s episode of The Breakfast Club, he apologized for Kanye’s false claim that Floyd wasn’t murdered by former police officer Derek Chauvin, but was killed by fentanyl. N.O.R.E. said:

“I support freedom of speech, I support anybody not being censored, but I do not support anybody being hurt. I did not realize that the George Floyd statements on my show were so hurtful. And you gotta realize, it was the first five minutes of the show, when he walked in, he told my producer, if they stop filming, he’ll walk out.”

N.O.R.E. continued, claiming he tried to correct the Chicago rapper later in the show:

“But later on, I actually checked him about the George Floyd comments, I actually checked him about the ‘white lives matter’ [t-shirt], but it was so later in the episode, I was already inebriated at that time, that maybe people looked over it. But I apologize to the George Floyd family, I apologize to anybody that was hurt by Kanye West’s comments.”

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Breakfast Club hosts DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne tha God, gave some pushback, stating that Kanye West’s comment about George Floyd’s death was a “lie” and “misinformation” and not an issue of “free speech.”

The podcast host replied,

“We purposely don’t bring up politics and religion because of this. I disagree with Kanye, I felt like I should have said something a lot earlier.”

N.O.R.E. claims that he didn’t want to have a “Birdman moment” (Birdman walked out of a Breakfast Club interview in 2016) if producers stopped recording during Kanye’s rant.

They also asked N.O.R.E. why Drink Champs chose to conduct an interview, given all the recent controversy surrounding Ye, especially when The Shop had pulled its episode with West over his “hate speech,” and that Tucker Carlson edited out West’s numerous anti-semitic remarks from their two-part interview.

N.O.R.E. insisted that overall, the interview went well.

“Other than the George Floyd comment, I thought I conducted a very great interview.”

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When asked directly about West’s anti-semitic comments on Drink Champs, N.O.R.E. said there were “four Jewish people in the room” and that he

“looked at them to tell them, like, ‘Yo, tell me whenever he’s going across the line.’ And they’re looking, and they’re saying, ‘ok, we understand where he’s coming from.’”

He continued,

“But none of it, I don’t support none of it. The George Floyd comments, I don’t support the anti-semitic. That’s all I have is Jewish friends, that’s all I have is Black friends. That’s it.”

As the interview came to a close, N.O.R.E. reiterated that he made a mistake with Kanye West’s interview, and said,

“I feel like I failed my people… When I watched this [interview], I cringe. I cringe. And I felt terrible. So I have to say sorry. I have to say sorry to anybody that was hurt y his rhetoric, anybody who was hurt by his speech, anybody who was hurt. I apologize to George Floyd’s family… I want to apologize to anybody who was hurt by me letting that man say something on my platform.”

 

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