Dicky sees Ye as a good person
Lil Dicky recently appeared on Flagrant where he revealed his thoughts about Ye’s anti-Jewish remarks. The rapper, who is Jewish himself, recalled playing basketball with Ye for a year on 2017 learned how “nice” and “sweet” he was.
“I obviously see all the things and I was surprised because I don’t think in his heart that Kanye dislikes Jewish people,” he explained. “I know he knows I’m Jewish, I know he likes me. In my heart I feel like he probably said something and and it was the wrong thing, I’m sure.
“I’m not denying that he’ll say the wrong thing often. I think he might have said the wrong thing, people got outraged. I think the thing that he can’t stand the most is when people tell him what he can or cannot say. And he leaned into it.”
He added, “And that’s the reality. Now I don’t think you should be leaning into it. I’m not saying what he did is right. I think that there should be a sensitivity to Jewish people. But this is really me theorizing. I’m not that close to the situation. I played basketball with him for a year. But let me tell ya, he was the sweetest man. And I watched him interact with a variety of different people being really nice.”