thankfully, tmz staffer van lathan was there to call kanye out in person. - producer van lathan takingng an artist, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. frankly, i'm disappointed, i'm appalled, and, brother, i am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, that's not real. - wow. that was powerful. that was really, really powerful. and you know there was one scared white person in that office who was like, "hello, police?" "there's two black people arguing in the office right now." you know, normally i wouldn't really care what kanye west said about slavery or black history, but what does suck is that now every member of the tiki torch club out there is gonna use kanye's words to justify their hate. you know, basically the way kanye samples old-school soul music is how racists are gonna sample him now. they'll be like-- ♪ well, black folks had choices ♪ ♪ like slavery so look. kanye may think he's just being a free thinker. but the truth is, there's nothing good coming out of this, except maybe-- maybe an idea for a new