John Legend claims to have “lost touch” with Kanye West

• Following the rapper’s recent round of anti-Semitic remarks, John Legend is talking openly about his friendship with Kanye West.
• We need to be upfront about how pernicious and awful anti-Semitism is and has been for decades, Legend said in the interview with Swisher, denouncing it.
• There is, however, “always a place for forgiveness,” Legend continued. “

Following the rapper’s recent round of anti-Semitic remarks, John Legend is talking openly about his friendship with Kanye West.

Legend pondered on the West he once knew during a Thursday visit on the On with Kara Swisher podcast from New York Magazine. He also discussed whether he believes he deserves another opportunity.

“I do find him different than he was back then,” Legend, 43, told the host of West, 45, who he worked with on the albums The College Dropout and Get Lifted. “I didn’t see hints of this kind of harmful behavior back then but, you know, I think life happens to people, and I think the death of his mother probably had something to do with this.”

He continued, “I don’t want to play armchair psychologist, but he’s definitely changed, and a lot of us who have known him over the years are really concerned about it.”

Later, the host questioned whether Legend was still in contact with the rapper of “Flashing Lights” and whether he was trying to help him.

“Well, I know people in his life that are, but we have lost touch,” he said. “We have not been friends for a while now, and so I’m not personally doing anything, but I do know people who are, and a lot of people are concerned about him.”

Last month, West shared in now-deleted social media posts that he wanted to go “death con 3 on JEWISH.”

According to sources, after he posted the anti-Semitic remarks, Instagram suspended his account and removed information from his profile because he had broken the social media platform’s rules and regulations. A Meta spokesman declined to clarify to either site what content had broken their policies.

After one of his tweets broke the company’s regulations, his Twitter account was later banned. West’s language was also criticized by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) for encouraging “writing in a statement: “Kanye West should learn how to make a point without employing anti-Semitic tropes like money and domination. The performer has incited anti-Jewish sentiment throughout the past week.”

On October 19, West made an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. When the British broadcaster pressed the rapper on his “racist” remarks that “insult the Jewish people,” the rapper again declared he was “absolutely not” sorry for what he said.

Morgan inquired, “So you said it knowing it’s racist?” West responded, “Yes. I fought fire with fire.

Later on in the interview, West apologized. He said, “I’ll say I’m sorry for the folks I injured. “I feel like I use my platform where you say, ‘Hurt people hurt people,’ and I was sorry for the families of the people who had nothing to do with the tragedy that I had been through.

We need to be upfront about how pernicious and awful anti-Semitism is and has been for decades, Legend said in the interview with Swisher, denouncing it.

According to Legend, “it has surfaced in cultures all around the world and has made life for Jews all over the world very tough for a long time.” And it’s not a novel discovery of news, nor is it a development in hatred.

There is, however, “always a place for forgiveness,” Legend continued.

“I believe that the forgiver needs to forgive, you know? Like it’s better for you, the person that feels like they’ve been harmed, to be able to forgive,” he said. “Because if you can’t do that, it’s a weight on your life. And so I believe in forgiveness in general. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t face consequences for what they do wrong, but I also do believe in forgiveness.”

One of the many famous people who publicly condemned West’s anti-Semitic remarks on social media was Legend.

On Twitter on October 9, Legend made a passing reference to the remarks without mentioning his former friend by name, writing, “Weird how all these ‘free, independent thinkers’ constantly arrive at the same old anti blacks and anti-Semitism.”

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