Kanye West is known for having made controversial statements on a variety of topics over the course of his career. However, he truly drew a considerable amount of backlash in 2022 when he began making antisemitic comments. Those sentiments have since cost West on both professional and personal levels. While the rapper was posting his views, there were people who bore witness, including one of his collaborators, Dave Blunts. Now, Blunts is sharing candid thoughts on what it was like when West was posting his opinions.
Dave Blunts rose to prominence in 2024, and the rapper has since released three studio albums. More recently, Blunts has been working with Kanye West on the latter’s upcoming album, In a Perfect World. Much of the musical compilation’s conception coincided with West’s viral tirades against people of the Jewish faith. While being interviewed by VladTV (on YouTube), Blunts explained that in some ways he had to become West while writing new music for him and discussed how the antisemitic remarks intersected with their collaboration:
