(You can listen to Mos Def's rant below. ***WARNING***: This video is UNEDITED . . . and contains a TON of PROFANITY)


In an interview with British radio, Jay-Z said, "Of course it was rude because it was her moment, but that's the way he really felt.

"I think it was rude, but the way they're treating him . . . he's on the cover of every paper. He didn't kill anybody. No one got harmed.

"[It was] inappropriate at the time . . . [but] he's just a super passionate person."

Meanwhile, MOS DEF also came to Kanye's defense, during a gig at some club in Baltimore. But he was a little less diplomatic in his approach.

He said, quote, "Kanye West is my friend, my brother . . . this mother(effer) ain't kill nobody, ain't take nobody money, he ain't slap that girl. He expressed a sentiment that she was sitting at home feeling, probably.

"He ain't do it at an appropriate time but he apologized for that . . . leave my man alone. He's at least done something good to make you feel good . . . so this energy right here is for my brother, Kanye West.

"Don't none of y'all mother(effers) rock with him if you think he this, think he that. I'm rocking with him . . . when they start kicking on me like that, I hope somebody on a national platform says 'That's my mother(effing) man.'"

And then Mos Def went after JAY LENO, who asked Kanye how he thought his mother, the late Donda West, would react to all this.

He said, quote, "And Jay Leno, with your banana boat face having ass, you need to apologize to Kanye West for [asking] him [what] his mother [would say], what she would think . . .

". . . She would think she'd need to smack your (effing) banana face-having ass face off trying to be slick." (???)