{"id":609879,"date":"2026-04-16T03:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609879\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:44:10","slug":"n-o-r-e-talks-deleted-kanye-drinks-champ-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609879\/","title":{"rendered":"N.O.R.E. Talks Deleted Kanye ‘Drinks Champ’ Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tN.O.R.E. <\/a>opened up about his fallout with Ye (formerly Kanye West<\/a>) following his explosive Drink Champs interview in 2022, which was removed from REVOLT\u2019s platform<\/a> due to the scrutiny surrounding West\u2019s controversial comments about George Floyd and the Jewish community. <\/p>\n

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\n\tNoreaga joined The Jason Lee Show on Wednesday (April 15), where he went in-depth about the backlash from the interview, making edits to Ye\u2019s comments for the first time in Drink Champs history and receiving a call from Diddy <\/a>\u2014 chairman of REVOLT at the time \u2014 who told him to leave the interview as is.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel like I should\u2019ve took out a lot more with the Ye interview. I felt like Ye and me was friends,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish I edited it more.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe recalled taking out a part where West made an analogy between assassinated Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t how Ye said it, it was how Ye delivered it,\u201d he added. \u201cIf I left that part out of the interview, it would\u2019ve been horrible for Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJason Lee explained that he was one of the first people N.O.R.E. called for advice following the controversy and a phone call from Diddy, who wanted to leave everything Ye said in the interview.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPuff called me. I did not understand the Jewish part of the conversation and I did not understand the George Floyd part of the conversation,\u201d N.O.R.E. said. \u201cIt was so much other things that happened, it went over my head. Puff called me and was like, \u2018Hey, I think we should edit this one.\u2019 I\u2019m saying, \u2018We\u2019ll take your part out.\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018Not my part, my part can stay. You sure you want these other parts to stay?\u2019 \u2026 [Diddy] said, \u2018I do not suggest that.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about Kanye\u2019s delivery or his statements, it was we felt like we were the Howard Sterns. If you edit us, then you\u2019re messing up our creative content\u2026 Me looking in retrospect was like, \u2018Damn, the George Floyd thing was wrong.’\u201d\u2026 I should\u2019ve listened to my own material. Had I listened to it, I would\u2019ve been saying, \u2018I could take this part out.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDays following the interview, REVOLT removed the Drink Champs episode<\/a> from its platform due to the backlash toward West\u2019s antisemitic remarks. \u201cI can say antisemitic s\u2013t and Adidas cannot drop me,\u201d Ye boasted during the interview. <\/p>\n

\n\tN.O.R.E. issued an apology<\/a> and Ye\u2019s spiral continued throughout October 2022, which saw him continuing to spew antisemitic rhetoric on various platforms and social media. Businesses like Adidas, Balenciaga, Gap and Universal Music Group quickly severed ties with the rapper.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver three years later, West is dealing with the consequences of his actions, which included selling a swastika t-shirt and releasing a song titled \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d in 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tLooking to repair his relationship with the Jewish and Black communities, Ye issued an apology in The Wall Street Journal<\/a> in January and met with a rabbi<\/a> in November 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn Tuesday (April 14), Ye postponed his June concert<\/a> in France due to backlash from government officials opposing his performance. Earlier in April, West was banned from the U.K.<\/a> due to his history of antisemitism after being tapped to headline Wireless Fest in London this summer, which is now canceled. <\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the full interview with N.O.R.E. below. Talk about Ye takes place around the 12-minute mark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"N.O.R.E. opened up about his fallout with Ye (formerly Kanye West) following his explosive Drink Champs interview in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,9056,136,9057,210958],"class_list":["post-609879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-nsfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}