John Legend ended close friendship with Kanye West over rapper’s ‘MAGA’ support for Donald Trump

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John Legend has admitted that his shut friendship with Kanye West ended over the rapper’s controversial help of Donald Trump.

The musicians had been shut buddies for many years till the outspoken rapper began publicly backing the controversial former US president and subsequently operating for president himself in 2020.

The All Of Me singer, who give up Kanye’s report Label G.O.O.D Music final yr after virtually 20 years, informed The Axe Recordsdata podcast: ‘Effectively, , we aren’t mates as a lot as we was as a result of I actually suppose as a result of we publicly disagreed on his operating for workplace, his supporting Trump.

‘I feel it turned an excessive amount of for us to maintain our friendship, actually.’

He additionally defined that whereas many followers and different celebrities didn't help the Yeezy founder’s 2020 bid for the presidency, Kanye took his snub significantly badly.

John give up Kanye’s G.O.O.D Music report label final yr (Image: FilmMagic)

Kanye alienated a large part of his fan base and celeb buddies over his die-hard MAGA help (Image: Getty Photos)

‘I wasn’t alone in that [the lack of support],’ he stated. ‘However, , he was not glad about that. And we actually haven’t been shut since then.”

Nevertheless, the soul singer, 43, insists that he does admire that his former pal is ‘very actual’.

‘I feel he’s been very open with who he's and his struggles with psychological well being,’ he added.

‘He’s very actual, actually. So I feel there’s not so much about him that individuals don’t get.

‘Like he’s been fairly upfront along with his opinions, his struggles, all of the issues that he’s coping with. And I feel what you see with him is just about what you get.’

John additionally respects how a lot the Jesus Walks rapper has helped him in his profession.

Kanye, Kim Kardashian West, Beyonce, John and Chrissy Teigen after they had been all good buddies again in 2015 (Image: WireImage)

Glad information: John and spouse Chrissy Teigen predict their third baby after struggling a miscarriage two years in the past (Image: Getty)

He stated: ‘I’ve simply been collaborating with so many dope artists all through my profession.

‘I began with Kanye at G.O.O.D. Music and our complete factor was bringing hip hop and soul collectively. So I used to be on quite a lot of his tracks…quite a lot of tracks he was producing for different folks…

‘He was producing my tracks and connecting me with different folks in hip hop so there’s all the time been quite a lot of collaborations in my background…’

‘So I’ve simply all the time had that spirit and that power and I really like working with dope folks and we undoubtedly did that with this album.”

John and his spouse, former mannequin Chrissy Teigen, just lately introduced that they're anticipating their third baby collectively.

Chrissy, 36, who continues to be shut buddies with Kanye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, suffered a miscarriage two years in the past.