Don Lemon is firing back at Kanye West’s Grammy rant against him ... telling us he doesn’t get why the rapper had to throw a racial slur into the mix.
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00:00One person who is not thrilled with Kanye is Don Lemon.
00:04And we told you that they had a whole showdown at the Grammys.
00:07Kanye didn't ask, like, a question that Don asked,
00:09even though it was completely innocent.
00:11Kanye was wrong on that.
00:12Don never said what Kanye said.
00:13Yeah, exactly.
00:14So Kanye had wrong information, but he used an epithet,
00:19the C word.
00:21A racial epithet.
00:22In referring to Don Lemon.
00:24So we got Don at LAX as he was getting out of town
00:28and asked him about that showdown
00:30and why he was so upset about it.
00:33I just asked him music questions and, you know, fine.
00:36If he didn't want to talk, he didn't want to talk.
00:37Right.
00:38He didn't have to post that stuff about me
00:39and he didn't have to call me.
00:40Right, I mean.
00:42I don't like to use that word or call anyone that word.
00:44And I think that's, that can be, you know,
00:47unapproachable.
00:49It may be even a worse insult among black people
00:52than the N word.
00:53Because with the N word, you know,
00:54you say it a lot in rap music and it's a, you know,
00:56not a hard R, but with that word among black people,
01:00it has a certain connotation.
01:01That's really interesting you said that.
01:02It sounds true to me, right?
01:05Yeah, think about it.
01:06You're on an arrival line and Kanye's walking down.
01:10On one hand, you're excited
01:11because you're going to get something.
01:13And then on the other hand,
01:15I don't know what I'm going to get.
01:16Dude, I'm running for the hills.
01:17Yeah.
01:18Oh, I don't know what happened to camera, bro.
01:19I got to go.
01:26I got to go.