Candace Owens Podcast
Kanye West is blaming it on the booze … saying he was under the influence when he fired off those antisemitic statements in ’22 that got him seriously canceled.
The rapper dropped this bombshell on Candace Owens‘ podcast — which was filmed in 2022 but just released Wednesday … saying in his words, “You wanna know what alcohol I had inside me? Hennessy.”
Ye acknowledged Hennessy turns people “gray” — and brought out his demons real quick — which he says is what happened in this case.
But when Candace grilled him on why he didn’t blame his hateful “death con 3 on Jewish people” tweet on booze right away, he explained he didn’t want his words discredited … despite them being so offensive.
2/12/24
TMZ.com
That was the same stance he took earlier this year when he insisted to TMZ some of his comments were right on the money … but he did drop a classic non-apology apology for his hate speech.
But back to Ye’s love affair with booze … this ain’t his first time blaming bad behavior on the bottle — remember when he awkwardly interrupted Taylor Swift‘s acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs? Yeah, he chalked that up to knocking back half a bottle of Hennessy.
DECEMBER 2022
InfoWars
Both times, the fallout from his inexcusable actions has been considerable — especially after his hateful antisemitic rants — he went as far as praising Hitler — and he was later spotted wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt.
