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Quentin Tarantino Responds to Kanye West Claiming He Stole 'Django Unchained' Concept

“Kanye West said that he came up with the idea for Django Unchained. He said that when he was making the ‘Gold Digger’ video with Jamie Foxx, he pitched it to you guys as a video and then you made it – is there any truth to that?” Jimmy asked.

Quentin responded, “There’s no truth to the idea that Kanye West came up with the idea of Django and then he told that to me, and I go, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a really great idea. Let me take Kanye’s idea and make Django Unchained out of it.’ That didn’t happen.”

Quentin then went on to share his side of the story.

“I’d had the idea for Django for a while before I ever met Kanye. He wanted to do a giant movie version of The College Dropout the way he did the album,” Quentin explained. “So he wanted to get big directors to do different tracks from the album and then release it as this giant movie – not video, nothing as crass as videos, it was movies, movies based on each of the different tracks,”

“We used it as an excuse to meet each other and and so we met each other we had a really good time. And he did have an idea for a video,” Quentin continued. “I do think it was for the ‘Gold Digger’ video, that he would be a slave. And the whole thing was the slave narrative where he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger.’ And it was very funny. It was a really, really funny idea.”

Jimmy interjected, “It was a funny slave video, I mean…”

“It was meant to be ironic. And it’s like a huge musical,” Quentin responded. “I mean, like no expenses spared with him in this slave rag outfit, doing everything. And then that was also part of the part of the pushback on it. But I wish he had done it. It sounded really cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”

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