Estelle says she doesn’t have any regrets about working with under-fire Kanye West and believes they ‘made magic’ while collaborating on one of her biggest hits, DailyMail reports.
The singer, Estelle, 45, collaborated with the controversial rapper on her 2008 single American Boy – a number one hit in the United Kingdom and various other countries across mainland Europe.
According to the report by DailyMail, promoting her new album Stay Alta on Thursday’s instalment of Loose Women, Estelle was asked for her views on West.
The rapper has courted criticism over recent months for a series of inflammatory stunts, among them conducting an interview while dressed as a Ku Klux Klansman, praising Nazi figurehead Adolf Hitler and airing unsavoury anti-semitic views.
Anchor Kaye Adams, 62, was keen to find out what she thought about West and asked her: ‘One of the people you have collaborated with, you mentioned John Legend, is Kanye West, who has proved to be quite a controversial figure. How do you reflect on that?’
Estelle said: ‘I don’t. In a nice way. He was on his journey before me.
‘My song is my song. We made magic. We made a record that people’s grandkids, you cannot feel joy when you hear this record. I feel like that is the point.
‘It’s my record, we’ve performed it 4/5 times together, I don’t regret it.
‘People’s grandkids love this record and you see their children dancing and they don’t know.’
She continued: ‘Even if they like rapping along to his verses, it’s still just the joy in the moment.
‘I prayed for a record like this. I literally prayed for a record like this. It’s here. I feel like it would be a slap in the face to say…
‘No, this is my record. It’s a beautiful song. It makes me happy. ‘
Estelle shot to fame in the 2000s and has had a successful career over the years.
Although American Boy is one of her most popular songs, she’s also released the likes of Freak, Stronger Than You, Come Over and Conqueror.
The star has worked in film and TV industry.
Earlier this month, West revealed that he has done a full 180 following substantial backlash to his new song Heil Hitler (Hooligan Version), which dropped two weeks ago.
‘I am done with antisemitism,’ the disgraced 47-year-old – who boasts 69.4M social media followers – announced on X Thursday.
‘I love all people.’
The rapper – who was raised Christian – continued: ‘God forgive me for the pain I’ve caused. I forgive those who have caused me pain. Thank you God.’
The 24-time Grammy winner explained the reason behind his rejection of his Nazi persona was because ‘I simply got a FaceTime from my kids and I wanna save the world again.’
West had been complaining about not seeing his six children – daughter North, 11; son Saint, 9; daughter Chicago, 7; and son Psalm, 5 – from his six-year marriage to Kim Kardashian, which ended in 2021.
‘With all of my money and fame I still don’t get to see my children,’ the Atlanta-born Chicago native rapped in Heil Hitler.
‘N*****s see my Twitter but they don’t see how I be feeling / So I became a Nazi, yeah b****, I’m the villain.’
His controversies started back in 2022 when he tweeted he was going ‘death con 3 on Jewish people’.
He was then dropped by his agency CAA, production company MRC, Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga.