N.O.R.E Apologizes For Drink Champs Interview with Kanye West

I support freedom of speech. I support anybody you know, not being sensive, but I do not support anybody being hurt. I did not realize that the George Floyd's statements on my show was so hurtful, and you gotta realize it was the first five minutes of the show. Like when he walked in, he told my producer, he said that if if he he'll stop um filmen, that he'll walk out. So I didn't want I didn't want a bird Man moment. I didn't want a Birdman moment with y'all, like you

know when Birdman walked out. So I wanted the man to speak. But later on, like I actually checked him about George Floyd's comments. I actually checked him about the White Lives matters, but it was so later in the episode, and it was so it was so like, you know, I was already at nebriated at that time that maybe people looked over it. But I apologize to the George Floyd family. I apologize that anybody ever hurt by Kanye

West um climents. Although I do supports free speech, I am black, black, and I'm with Jamika Mallory, I'm with I would I would have told freedom, I'm with my song, That's who I am. In fact, I called my song and asked for a shirt because that's what I wanted to have on when um Kanye said he was he was coming through here. We actually we actually posted it and then saw that this was the wrong edit, took it down, and then it got reposted again with those

same comments that was there. So it's a it's a mistake on our behalf, on our team behalf, because we don't edit nothing. I think NB done Drink Champs, Sally Charlemagne has done Drink Champs, and we literally don't edit nothing. But but we will start from here on the album because we understand that there's people that's hurt out there. Yeah, I think it's not a freedom of speech. It's more like a misinformation. It's not a misinformation. What he said

about George Floyd was a lie. What Kanye West said about George Floyd dying of fentonol and not the physical and impact of the officer Derek Chauvin was just a bold faced lie. And by the way, guys, you know, I'm not I'm not. This is not Big Chance. This is drink Champ. You know what I'm saying. This is not political Champs. This is great drink Champ. So we we purposely don't bring up politics, We purposely don't bring up religion the course of this. And I just you know,

I disagreed with Kanye. I felt like I should have said something a lot earlier. I didn't because I didn't want him to walk out. I didn't want to have a Birdman moment, you know. So so Nora, you know, people would say that, you know, we're talking to Nori body from from Drink Champs. Of course, he just released an interview with Kanye. P Hee would say, well, why do the interview at all, especially with all the hate speech that he's been spewing the last couple of days.

And you know he think you had Fox News, You had Fox, You had Tucker Carlson edit out all his anti Semitic comments. Saw the shops say that they wasn't gonna put out the hate speech. We saw all the things Kanye was texting and I mean tweeting and everything else. Why even do the interview at all? Why? Yeah, why even you know, do the interview? You know, you know that's a great question. And the thing is, you know, um,

that's like, it's like people talking about Charlemagne. People talking about Charlemagne and say Charlemagne is an asshole, Charlemagne is a dick. But then Charlemagne doesn't sow that to me. So I gotta I gotta treat Charlemagne how Charlemagne treats me. If Charlemagne treats me like a gentleman, that I'm gonna think Charlemagne has element. I don't understand charlemagne rhetoric when he's not around me, You understand I'm saying. And that's

that's that's that's pretty clearly what it was. I did not think and other than the George Floyd comment, I thought I thought I couldn't up in a very great interview. You know what I'm saying. I thought that he laughed, he smiled, he drank, he smoked. You know, this is eight o'clock in the morning. And but yeah, no, I don't don't say that though, because he said a lot of he still said a lot of anti Semitic rhetoric in the in the interview as well. You know what

I mean. Yes, And if you look by the way, I had four Jewish people there. Steve Rifkin was in the room. Steve Ripken, who who signed who came clan was in the room. My friend Eric, who is Jewish, is in the room. My friend Diego, who was Jewish, was in the room. And I looked at them to tell them, like, YO, tell me whenever he's going across the line. And that's just they're looking in and they're saying, Okay, we understand where he's coming from. But none of it.

I don't support none of it. I don't support the George folks comments and don't support the antist That's all I I have as Jewish friends, and all I have is Black friends. That's it. So um nori. I was gonna ask you when it comes to these George Floyd comments, we see their family maybe suing. Is that gonna include you in this law suit? Did you hear about that? I definitely heard about it, And um, this is the reason why I'm stepping up is because it's not even

about suing all the money. It's about the Hurst food thing. Man. You know what I mean. I was locked down. I was I was supported the George Floyd movement. I saw that video too, you know what I mean, Like I've seen that cops knee on his neck. I seen him colding out for whoever. So I'm embarrassed with myself, you know what I'm saying, because I bet my bad. I've done this interviews before where I come back and I redeem myself, and on this one, I waited too long.

I waited too long to actually address him. I spoke to Kanye yesterday morning. I told him, I'm gonna do this, but I'm also gonna, you know, with shoot these comments because I was disgusted by it, as if I wasn't even in the room when I heard it. When I heard it, I was like, wait a minute, Damn, I was there. And again, I'm just trying to be a journalist. I'm saying, you know what, we just won an award. I want people to know that we won the award

because we deserve it. So I'm sitting there thinking about it. I heard Stephen Jackson say something about me, and I'm like, you know what, I'm not even going back at Stephen Jackson. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not gonna make up a bottle. I'm gonna tell that brother you write because I should have checked him. I should have. I should have, and I eventually did. But by the time I checked him, I was already inebriated. So you're not you know, you're

not hearing the sincerity in my voice. Even if you go look at it, you can see that Nori is very serious. It's just that Norris also he's also drunk at the same time, and just called drink champ. It's not called politics champ. What are you gonna do that? Move forward? Yeah, to move forward? Are there other interviews that you plan to do to kind of combat this? What are you planning to do? Because I see you reaching out on Twitter to people as you feel like

you need to come up. Sean King. You know, John King, I want Sean King to come up. I want doctor Umar, I want I want to Quali, I want David Van. I want to kill the Mike because they all know, they all know where my heart is. They all know that I'm on black Twitter. They all know I'm on them black you know, you know and two Freedom a group chats. They all know that. You know what I'm saying. The fact is I didn't I didn't fail. I didn't fail. I don't want to. I don't want to see Drink

Champs go down that path. I like Drink Champs being the happy podcast that it is. And what you tried to do, what you tried to do was give hip hop culture voice. But the reality is he don't need that right now. That's not what we should be giving a voice to right now. That we shouldn't be. We shouldn't have had Kanye on the platform to begin with, not at a time like this, with the rhetoric that he's viewing. Nah. Well yeah, I agree, I agree. I agree. I really did try. I really did try, and um,

I try to give him one voice. I try to give him a voice. I try to give one platform. I try to do that, but you know, I realized my political stance may not be correct. You know what I'm saying, I agree the right place. What about it? Puff reach out to you? Um, you know, I'll tell you this. At first, I was disappointed in brother Love because Brother Love called me and said, well did he diss me? And I was just like, wait a minute,

you know it's so much bigger than you. And then he called me back and he said, you know what, let's let's let's let's support free speaking is what freethinking. Let's support it and it's not freethinking though. That's the other thing. We got to stop saying it's not free thinking when all you're doing is repeating white supremacists talking points, you're repeating black Israelite talking points like Kanye West is not a free thinker. We gotta stop saying that there's

nothing free about his thoughts at all. What's crazy about it is. That's crazy about it is I don't even think he believes that, you know what I'm saying, That's my point. He said, he's saying everything he's heard other people already say. That's not freethinking, Like I think. I think he supports the wild factor, like the fact that you he could have a confenacy. People go wow, and then you have a maga hat on people go wow. But then you ask him, do you do you do

you do? Do you promote this confederacy? Do you promote the Trump uh campaign? And then you ask him and he won't even give you something about the Trump campaign. He won't even tell you. It's because I think that it's the wow factor. And I think that's the reason why people supporting him for so long. Whether it's been a speakers but it's been whatever. Don't get it wrong. I love Kanye West. I love Kanye. Kanye has done

things for me. You know, He's really a great person. Um. The ideology about you know, um um a black people with Jewish people, it's not correct. The sympimis that he said about George Floyd. It's not correct. And I do not stand board him when it comes to that. But you know, you know, um, I just don't want to give up on him. I wouldn't give up on you, vy Vy. You told me you were voted for million dollars worth of game on VC Awards. I don't want

to give up on NV. I know right now, you know what I'm saying, Like I know that I know that he might be thinking, you know, sirs herb on the low. I'm not sure, but empty that's my brother. But you can tell you can tell your brother when he's wrong. Though. Absolutely I definitely told him he was wrong, and I definitely told MVY that when he you use clips of Boosey and you don't shout out drinks that listen, I try to shout you out all the time. Nor let me ask you this. Do you think that Kanye

is having some type of breakdown? Because I know people talk about his mental health and people around him, they say, are very concerned about his mental health. What are your thoughts? Yes, I do believe he's having a mentor breakdown. But then I gotta be honest with you. I could have a straight conversation with him, and he helped talk to me with nothing but sense. Kanye knows exactly what he's doing, y'all. I don't know why. I don't know why we keep

trying to shoot him all this bail. Kanye knows exactly what he's doing. And by the way, two things can be true. You can be dealing with mental health issues and you can be a bigot. You could be dealing with dealing with health issues and be a black white supremacist. You could be dealing with mental health issues and still be lying on how George Floyd got killed. Yeah. And also they were saying that Candice Owens has a huge influence and part of everything he's saying. Do you agree

with that as well? Um? Well, I don't. I don't agree with any I don't agree with anybody um or with his audiology, I don't. I can't say this candis Owens. I can't say it's Trump. I gotta say this is the word factor, this is the ins factor. It's like he gets like he gets a kicked out of doing something that that you say is raw being a contrarian. A lot of people like being a contrarian. And by the way, did you see that even Donald Trump says

Kanye West is acting too crazy and needs help. Yep, yeah, that's that's what I said. I gotta step up. Let's let's put the ball on it. Nor you feel like you made a mistake with the Kanye interview. That's number one. And by the way, by the way, by the way, I could come on here and say, guess what, God, that's how Kanye think and that's it, and and guess what, people will forgive me and let me get away with that. But that's not what I'm doing. I felt my people.

I feel like I felt my people. This is what I wanted to do. Sharle Maintain called me and say called of the members club. I called Shall the man and said, I would like to apologize to my people because after me hearing it, because I don't I don't watch my own interviews. By the way, I'm that great, you know what I mean. I'm that great that I don't watch my own interviews. But when I watched this one, I cringed, I crene and I and I felt terrible.

So I have to I have to say sorry. I have to say sorry to anybody that was hurt by his red to ring, anybody that was hurt by his speech, anybody that ever was hurt. I want to apologize with George Floyd family. I want to apologize to speak of Jackson. I want to apologize to everybody that was hurt for me letting that man say something on my platform, because, by the way, can turn the popular belief. We own drink camps, we own our IPO. So the person to plame,

the person to blame is us. I'm not gonna blame Ea Fenn. I'm not gonna blame pump Daddy as you guys actually earlier. I'm actually gonna say, you know what, six years of this, I don't have the excuse something that I'm not a journalist. I have. I have responsibility that I have to come and I have to say I'm sorry because my people will support me. So I do not want my people um feeling like that I

didn't step up at the time. But if you watch the whole three hours, thirty eight minutes interview, I represent for George Floyd five six seven times. I represent for black people five six seven times. Like I told hey, Nor like I told you, you should have put all that out first. Then, by the way, no, I didn't. I didn't. You know what it is, Charlot, Maine Waller Alert came and they took they took the cliff and then they ran with it. I can't be mad at

border Alert when they're taking the cliff. Now that's working against me, because I'd be happy at Border Alert when they take a cliff that works with me, you understand. So I couldn't. I couldn't really do it. I had to I had to die by the sword. But and also and Nori, as you you know, as your friend and as your business partner. I told you last week, don't do this. It's not worth the trouble, told you this twice before. We appreciate you for checking in. Brother.

Hold On, hold on, hold on. I did not know he's gonna go there, Charlot Magne. You had to know, nor he's been doing it all week. Now. I just did. I just by the way, By the way, if you watch the interview, there is a certain respect that you can see that Kanye has for me. There's a certain respect and you can see I have for Kanye. So I did not think that this rhetoric print over my head. For bottom line, to anybody that was hurt, I apologize.

I'm moving forward with dropping take off in Cuble this week. Uh uh. I apologize for I know I'm not until freedom. I know I'm not. I know if people don't look at me like my song. But but my heart is my song. You know what I'm saying. My heart is to Mika. You know what I'm saying. So but for next time, I'm gonna listen to you. Charlot Magne, and I'm not gonna have this on or if it's gonna have it on, I'm gonna address it at the time

be fashioned. It deserves to be addressed. So for anybody that was hurt by Kanye's comment, I'm not apologizing for Kanye. I'm I apologize it for his his his his speech. I'm apologizing before you're apologizing for having him on. You are you're apologizing for having him on? Yeah? Me, me, Yeah, I don't think he I don't know if he's apologize. And I know he's apologizing because I supposed to him yesterday morning and he was like, hell, I think that part was supposed to go out, And I said, yes,

it was supposed to go out. So, um, is it out now or is it still in an interview that's posted. Um, I have no idea because, like I said, I I mean take it out. I tried to take it out like again, and I just think y'all. I think y'all should take the whole thing down. Man, Listen. I think that's where we're coming to. We're coming to the conclusion of what we're gonna do. I's gonna move forward again again.

I still I still respect freedom of speech. I think freedom of speech and would be free, but I think that this is this is the limit where we kind of went too far, where he kind of went too far, and we all response to let's be let it on our platform. I'm embarrassed. I do not stand by uh any rhetoric like that, but I want to apologize for even being stupid enough to not to not watch this

episode prior today coming out. So I'm truly sorry. We love you, thank you, thank you, thank y'all, thank y'all. All right, one love y'all. All right. That was Nori drink Champ