Quentin Tarantino

Additionally, West said earlier this week that he came up with the idea for Django Unchained, and Quentin Tarantino, the filmmaker behind the 2012 movie, has ...

As for [Kanye West, he recently returned to Instagram with jokes](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/kanye-west-returned-to-instagram-with-jokes-and-love-posts-after-being-escorted-out-of-sketchers-office) after he was escorted out of Skechers’ offices. So Kanye West did meet with Quentin Tarantino over a decade and a half ago to see if he was interested in directing a film adaptation of the “Gold Digger” track from his 2004 album The College Dropout. Rather than using the slave narrative, the video instead showed West and Jamie Foxx belting out their vocals as various pin-up girls appeared, and musical artists Consequence and John Legend also cameoed. [Will Smith turned the role down](https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Real-Reason-Smith-Turned-Down-Django-Unchained-36567.html)). In the end, not only did Hype Williams, one of Kanye West’s frequent collaborators, direct the “Gold Digger” music video, but they ended up going a different route with it. During his appearance on [Jimmy Kimmel Live!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJ1esMesHc), Tarantino made it clear that he conceived Django Unchained before he ever met West, who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021.