(CNN) -
Kanye West breaks the silence after he was mentioned in Issa Rae's "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
The "Insecure" actress played a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during an interview on Kenan Thompson's made-up morning show "Your Voice Chicago" in which she spoke about the upcoming US presidential election. USA
At the beginning of the skit, Rae said that she would "vote for all blacks," a pun on her comment during the 2017 Emmy Awards that went viral by saying she was "supporting all blacks."
Seconds before the end of the skit, Rae quickly had the last word responding to Thompson's comment on Kanye West with: »Kanye?
What the fuck! »
and rolled his eyes.
West responded to the joke by tweeting: “I've always said that SNL uses black people to suppress other black people.
My heart goes out to Issa Rae.
I pray for her and her family.
The rapper added, "I know that the twenty years of service I have devoted to entertainment has increased our ability to be more successful."
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West accompanied his tweet with a screenshot of the results of a Google search on Issa Rae showing data about the actress in Spanish.
The rapper and father of four announced that he was running for president on July 4.
Since then, he has campaigned on Twitter and has encouraged voters to write his name on the ballot where it does not appear.
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