{"id":293102,"date":"2020-05-31T12:07:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1157581"},"modified":"2020-05-31T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:07:50","slug":"john-legend-reveals-where-his-friendship-really-stands-with-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/john-legend-reveals-where-his-friendship-really-stands-with-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"John Legend Reveals Where His Friendship Really Stands With Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Legend<\/a><\/strong> and Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> aren’t as tight as they used to be.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with UK newspaper The Sunday Times<\/a><\/em>, Legend opened up about how his relationship with the Jesus Is King<\/em> rapper has dissolved in recent years.<\/p>\n

In 2018, West took a public stance supporting President Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>, to which Legend asked him to reconsider. In response, West tweeted out screenshots<\/a> of the friends’ private text messages.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the interaction, there have been ups and downs in their public discourse, often leaving Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong> and Chrissy Teigen<\/a><\/strong> in the middle.<\/p>\n

A year later, Legend told Vanity Fair<\/a>: <\/em>“I’m not trying to disown Kanye because I still love him and love everything we’ve done together creatively. But we were never the closest of friends.”<\/p>\n

However, they were close enough that Legend performed at Kimye’s wedding<\/a> in 2014. Legend has also attributed much of his musical success to his relationship with West, saying the then-producer was instrumental in securing his early record deals.<\/p>\n

Currently, Legend says that while he and West aren’t best buds, their political disagreements aren’t exactly to blame.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we’re less friends because of the Trump thing,” Legend told The Sunday Times<\/em> on Saturday.<\/em> “I just think we’re doing our own thing. He’s up in Wyoming. I’m here in LA. We’ve both got growing families and I no longer have a formal business relationship with him as an artist, so I think it’s just part of the natural cycle of life.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Legend did reiterate that they still don’t see eye-to-eye on the president, referencing a recent GQ <\/em>interview<\/a> in which West once again vocalized his support for Donald Trump, saying, “We know who I’m voting for!”<\/p>\n

In 2019, Trump tweeted<\/a> about Legend calling him a “boring musician” and Teigen his “filthy-mouthed wife.”<\/p>\n

“Obviously we disagreed on the Trump thing and we still do apparently,” Legend continued. “But what I’ve always said is, we never talked about politics before. It was never a part of our interaction. Our interaction was almost always about creativity and music. He’s also in a different place musically. He’s doing gospel music. That’s what he’s focused on right now, designing his clothes, so we’re in different places.”<\/p>\n

When asked if he’d consider attending one of West’s Sunday Service performances, Legend said he was open to the idea.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The singer also addressed the disdain the president has for the couple, specifically his wife.<\/p>\n

“He has a problem with strong women,” Legend said. “He definitely has more ire toward Chrissy. She’s a woman who would dare talk back to him and not revere him. He’s threatened by that.”<\/p>\n

Legend confirmed that he gets concerned for his partner when spatting with Trump, but ultimately believes in her strength and intelligence.<\/p>\n

“I know she’s much sharper than him, and funnier,” he said. ” He can’t hang with her. She doesn’t need my protection. She will destroy him.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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