Scott Storch says he’ll “lose it” if he sees the artist formerly known as Kanye West in person again.
During a recent interview on Patrick Bet-David’s PBD podcast, the four-time Grammy nominee was asked if he had ever worked with Ye, whose most recent musical project sees him exec-producing an EP for Diddy‘s son, King Combs. While Storch was quick to note Ye as being one of his personal “heroes” as an artist, the events of the past few years—namely, Ye’s “I’m a Nazi” statement and related remarks, not to mention his frequent invoking of Hitler—have complicated those feelings.
“Man, he used to be one of my musical heroes, used to be,” Storch said, as seen below. “I mean, the music is still great and that won’t change. But as a person who was my friend and somebody I thought was an amazing person, one of the most creative people turned out to be a fucking piece of shit. And I will fucking lose it if I see this guy in public, man.”
Storch continued, “The disrespect that this man did to Jewish people and just labeling us and glorifying Hitler and shit like that, and then doing it again and really going for the jugular. If I was in a room, I’d probably fucking crack him in his face. He broke my heart.”
Storch didn’t theorize much as to what, exactly, is at the heart of Ye’s recent statements, except to wonder if mere “shock value” was the aim. Either way, in Storch’s eyes, Ye is a “fucking clown” who also happened to make “great music” at one point.
“Did he forget that [Hitler] is the guy who fucking burned people in gas chambers, innocent people and kids?” Storch added. “What the fuck is that? What kind of clown shit? I know you wanna be witty and you wanna be original and you wanna be cool and say some off-the-cuff shit or some weird shit, [but] that shit’s not cool, man.”
Elsewhere, Storch acknowledged that he’s got his own faults, specifically referring to himself as a recovering “maniac cokehead.” Still, per Storch, “one’s a disease, and one’s hate.”
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In May, Ye claimed he was “done with antisemitism” and asked for forgiveness for “the pain I’ve caused.” However, the genuineness of this statement was called into question shortly after.
