N.O.R.E.‘s infamous Drink Champs interview with Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) still bothers him.
The rapper-turned-host stopped by The Breakfast Club on Monday morning (June 30) where he was asked about a funny interaction between Fabolous, Jadakiss and Diddy during a 2017 episode of Drink Champs that went viral, which then led the conversation into him deciding to edit Ye’s interview.
“We didn’t edit nothing until then, but Kanye’s was very weird,” N.O.R.E. revealed before admitting that it was the first interview where he “got secondhand hate” and that he “felt responsible” for some of Ye’s controversial comments on topics like the White Lives Matter shirt he wore and his opinion on what happened to George Floyd.
He then added that one topic that they decided to edit out of the interview was when Ye compared George Floyd to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “He was like, ‘What’s the difference between George Floyd and Martin Luther King?’ And we were all bent at that time, so we were all thrown off,” N.O.R.E. continued. “And he was like, ‘Martin Luther King had bi—es.’ And we were like ‘Aw, sh–.’ We knew that had to be edited right there.”
Adding, “We weren’t paying attention to everything… I don’t want to blame it all on him because it was a collective. I just didn’t know how to edit at that time.”
Co-host DJ Envy then asked if the Queens rapper and Ye have spoke since that 2022 interview with N.O.R.E. answering that they’ve spoken around five or six times, but said that the Chicago rapper has since “disappeared.”
“I’ma do a documentary [about] my two years with Kanye,” he quipped. “‘Cause I had two years of just… Like, I thought he was listening to me at one point. He was asking me marital advice. I felt obligated. I was going downstairs, I was walking away from my wife because I didn’t even want her to know that I was giving marital advice. And then he would listen to me and then he would just tweet away right after that.”
Billboard has reached out to Ye’s camp for comment.
You can watch the full interview below.
