John Legend is opening up about his life with Chrissy Teigen, his lengthy and profitable profession within the music enterprise, and far, far more. That “much more” contains fascinating commentary concerning the fallout of his friendship with Kanye West, too.
The singer sat down with the New Yorker for a brand-new longform interview printed on Sunday. During the chat, the favored performer covers plenty of floor concerning Kanye’s politics and the foremost rift that has come about between the 2 stars.
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For one, Legend disputed the supposed declare he and Ye first stopped being mates after the Hurricane rapper threw his political help behind Donald Trump‘s presidency. The proud father said that was actually not the case. Instead, their feud grew once Legend declined to personally support the rapper’s presidential aspirations.
John informed the magazine:
“What it got described as was, we stopped being friends because he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I said. That was kind of the Rupert Murdoch version of the story — it was all over the New York Post and Fox News. What I was saying was that he was very upset with me that I didn’t support him running for President, and that was the real impetus for us having a strain in our friendship.”
And the Green Light crooner continued:
“I don’t know what will happen in the future, but [Kanye] was very upset with me that I didn’t support him and I supported Joe Biden. It’s up to him whether he can get past that.”
Legend additionally speaks candidly about Kanye’s ill-fated marketing campaign for the White House. Of course, as we’ve beforehand reported, the individuals behind Ye’s failed run to Washington had been extremely suspect, to say the least.
It seems that was one thing Chrissy’s husband picked up on extraordinarily early within the course of. John informed the magazine:
“The most frustrating thing about his run for the Presidency for me was how much it was an operation run by the Trump campaign. I don’t know how aware he was of the fact that there was so much Trump personnel throughout his campaign, raising money for him, getting petitions signed for him, getting him on the ballot. I saw their work on his behalf as a clear scam and an operation to try to siphon Black votes away from Biden, so there was no way I was going to support it. Kanye was upset with that, and we haven’t been friends since, really.”
Wow.
Ye couldn’t be reached for remark for the interview, the New Yorker famous. But Legend went on to muse extra concerning the severe disagreements the 2 A-listers had with one another about it:
“I don’t feel like politics should be everything in your relationships, and your relationships with people shouldn’t only be determined by who they voted for. But I do believe that certain things you believe in are indicators of your character, and obviously that will affect your friendships. I mean, what are friendships? If they’re not your blood relatives, in many ways they’re defined by your impression of that person’s values and whether or not there’s some level of compatibility with the way you see the world.”
While it seems like John regrets dropping Ye’s friendship, the singer can also be making an attempt to be practical about what it means.
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Speaking about his private values and whether or not they can align with others, Legend stated:
“We’re so online these days, and the fights we’ve had over the past six years on Twitter, particularly around Trump, kind of made politics everything for a lot of people. I don’t want to live a life that’s so consumed by politics that it’s the sole determinant of who can be my friend and who can’t. But values matter and character matters and moral compass matters.”
But can individuals ever be satisfied to alter and develop? For the Minefields singer, that will get to the guts of the difficulty.
He contemplated:
“Most of my political work has been about encouraging people who are already inclined to think close to where I am to go out and vote and get involved. I don’t know how you persuade someone who believes differently than you do. And some of those beliefs are really strongly held. I have a lot of religious people in my life, for instance, and it’s hard to know how to convince someone when it feels like you’re speaking in an entirely different language.”
Damn. Very considerate, as all the time from him. And sadly very tough to reply.
You can learn the complete New Yorker interview HERE.
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