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Controversial rapper and business mogul Kanye West is now claiming that the idea for the film Django Unchained was his and he pitched the idea to the film’s star Jamie Foxx and director Quentin Tarantino.
West told British talk show host Piers Morgan that he discussed the idea of the movie with Jamie Foxx when they worked together for the 2005 music video for “Gold Digger,” according to Variety.
“Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where – actually him and Jamie, they got the idea from me because the idea for Django, I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger,’” West told Morgan. “And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”
The music video did not include the slavery themes West claims he originated, but the theme does drive the 2012 all-star gunslinger film.
