Quentin Tarantino slams Kanye West’s declare that Django Unchained was his concept: ‘There’s no reality to it’

Previously, Yeh claimed that he pitched the concept to Django Unchained throughout a brainstorming session for a music video for his track Gold Digger (2005), that includes Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx. Jimmy Kimmel requested Tarantino, “Kanye West stated he got here up with the concept for Django Unchained. He stated that when he was making the Gold Digger video with Jamie Foxx, he made it to you guys as a video Introduced and then you definitely made it up – is there any reality to it?

In response, Tarantino stated, “There’s no truth to the idea that Kanye West came up with the idea for Django and then he said to me, and I go, ‘Oh, wow, that’s a really great idea. Me. Let’s take Kanye’s idea and free Django from the chain.’ It did not happen.”

He continued, “Before I met Kanye, I had the idea for Django for a while. He wanted to do a huge movie version of The College Dropout (his album) the way he did the album…Video As crass as … these movies, the movies were each based on different tracks,” Tarantino stated.

“We used it as an excuse to meet each other and so we met each other, we had a really good time. And he had an idea for a video. I think it was for the Gold Digger video… that he would be a slave. And the whole thing was Das Katha where he is a slave and he is singing Gold Digger. And it was a lot of fun. It was a really, really funny idea,” Tarantino stated.

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Jango Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson, is an American revisionist movie set within the nineteenth century a few slave who turns into a benevolent hunter.