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Kanye West was all smiles when we snapped him leaving Nobu in NYC last night, and earlier in the day the outspoken rapper called in to a Houston radio station and responded to George Bush's recent remarks. Once upon a time Kanye West boldly stated "George Bush doesn't care about black people," and apparently those 7 words were too much for the former president to take. Bush, who is promoting his new book Decision Points, told Matt Lauer yesterday it was "one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency."

However, it seems like Kanye has totally turned a new leaf, as he told the radio host:

    “I definitely can understand the way he feels, to be accused of being a racist in any way, because the same thing happened to me, where I got accused of being a racist. For both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America felt in that situation. With him, it was a lack of compassion of him not rushing, him not taking the time to rush down to New Orleans. For me, it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment. But nonetheless, I think we’re all quick to pull a race card in America. And now I’m more open, and the poetic justice that I feel, to have went through the same thing that he went [through] — and now I really more connect with him on just a humanitarian level."


Click below to listen to the whole interview: