N.O.R.E. Says He Wishes He’d Edited Kanye West Interview “A lot more”

N.O.R.E. recently revisited the fallout from his infamous 2022 Drink Champs interview with Ye (formerly Kanye West). The interview was eventually removed from REVOLT’s platform due to the controversy surrounding West’s commentary on George Floyd and statements about the Jewish community. During an April appearance on The Jason Lee Show, Noreaga talked about the backlash and shared that former REVOLT president Sean “Diddy” Combs advised him on editing the Ye interview. 

“Puff called me. I did not understand the Jewish part of the conversation and I did not understand the George Floyd part of the conversation,” N.O.R.E. said. “It was so much other things that happened, it went over my head. Puff called me and was like, ‘Hey, I think we should edit this one.’ I’m saying, ‘We’ll take your part out.’ He’s like, ‘Not my part, my part can stay. You sure you want these other parts to stay?’ … [Diddy] said, ‘I do not suggest that.'”

He continued: “It wasn’t about Kanye’s delivery or his statements... we felt like we were the Howard Sterns. If you edit us, then you’re messing up our creative content… Me looking in retrospect was like, ‘Damn, the George Floyd thing was wrong...' I should’ve listened to my own material. Had I listened to it, I would’ve been saying, ‘I could take this part out.'”

N.O.R.E said that his friendship with Ye also likely clouded his judgment. 

“I feel like I should’ve took out a lot more with the Ye interview. I felt like Ye and me was friends,” he said. “I wish I edited it more.”