Kanye West Claims Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx Stole His Idea for ‘Django Unchained’

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Kanye West is accusing Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx of taking his music video idea and using it for their award-winning movie, « Django Unchained. »
The rapper made these claims in a new interview with Piers Morgan which was released on Saturday, October 22.
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“Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where – actually he and Jamie, they got the idea from me,” West said, during the latest episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
« The idea for ‘Django’, I pitched it to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino for the ‘Gold Digger’ music video. And then Tarantino made it into a movie, » he added.
The video for « Gold Digger » was released in 2012, while « Django Unchained » was released in 2012.
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The hit action movie follows a freed slave (Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to hunt down the South’s most wanted criminals.
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