Kanye West is speaking out after being joked about in Issa Rae's "Saturday Night Live" skit. Photo / Getty Images
Kanye West is speaking out after being joked about in Issa Rae's "Saturday Night Live" skit. Photo / Getty Images
Kanye West is "praying" for Issa Rae after she poked fun at him on 'Saturday Night Live'.
The 'All Day' rapper - who is running for president under the Birthday Party - was left unimpressed when he was made the punchline of a sketch between the show's guest host andseries regular Kenan Thompson.
For the skit, 'Your Voice Chicago', the 'Insecure' star played a lawyer representing NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) who was appearing on a morning talk show, anchored by Kenan.
Ive always said SNL uses black people to hold other black people back My heart goes out to Issa Rae I’m praying for her and her family I know that the twenty years of service that I’ve paid in the entertainment field has furthered our ability to be more successful pic.twitter.com/kExwUVVsqv
In reference to her 2017 Emmy Awards interview when Issa said she was "rooting for everybody Black", the actress said in character that she'd be "voting for everybody Black" at the upcoming presidential election.
She added: "For too long, our people's voices have not been heard. It's our duty to stand together and take our power back."
Towards the end of the sketch, Kenan's character said: "When we come back, we'll talk about the presidential race between Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Kanye West."
Issa's interrupted and said: "Kanye? F him!"
On Sunday, Kanye accused the show of using "black people to hold other black people back" and promised to pray for the guest host.
