NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal discusses all things trending in the world in his podcast. On the latest episode of “The Big Podcast with Shaq,” O’Neal, his co-hosts Nischelle Turner and Spice Adams discussed a variety of pertinent things. During the show, they also discussed the controversy involving superstar Kanye West. The rapper found himself in hot waters after his allegedly anti-Semitic remarks. He had previously been suspended from Instagram and Twitter for making such remarks.
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According reports, Ye had shared a series of comments based on supposedly racially sensitive conspiracy theories in a separate interview with Fox News. However, Fox News deleted those segments before the airing. This caused enormous controversy. And West received major backlash for his comments.
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Los Angeles Lakers legend Shaquille O’Neal is a great marketing mind. He knows how to sell himself and what works best. When he joined the Miami Heat, he helped Dwyane Wade sell better. And taught him the tricks of the marketing world to become one of the most popular basketball players. While talking about Ye’s comments, Shaq talked about his marketing mind.
Shaquille O’Neal talks about Kanye West’s comments
Shaquille O’Neal has proclaimed Kanye West to be a marketing genius. “When are you going to realize Kanye West is an MMG? Master of Marketing Genius,” Shaq said. He added, “I don’t know if he really believes what he says, but I know every time he does something it’s an outrage and people talk about it. It’s marketing, it’s bullshit. marketing 101.”
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However, Turner is definitely not a fan of the rapper’s remarks. She said she was not outraged but spoke about it and felt it was dangerous. Turner added, “This kind of hate speech is dangerous, and I wasn’t laughing at it at all.”
Next, O’Neal talked about what he thinks is the most dangerous thing about Ye. “And the most dangerous thing about him is that he doesn’t care. He doesn’t care what anyone says.
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NFL veteran Adams added that Kanye West would not be welcome on the podcast.
Recently, “The shop: uninterrupted” produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter interviewed Ye. But they decided not to broadcast the interview completely. Carter explained that he thought West would give a “respectable talk” when he spoke to her the night before the show. However, that was not the case. Carter added that Ye used the show to reiterate more extremely dangerous hate speech and stereotypes. So they decided not to air the entire show.