The Anti-Defamation League rapped rapper Kanye West over his off-the-cuff remarks in a radio interview that Jews and "oil people" are more well-connected than black people in general and President Obama in particular.

"If the comments are true as reported, this is classic anti-Semitism," the ADL's national director, Abraham Foxman, said in a statement. "There it goes again, the age-old canard that Jews are all-powerful and control the levers of power in government. As a celebrity with a wide following, Kanye West should know better. We hope that he will take responsibility for his words, understand why they are so offensive, and apologize to those he has offended."

Longtime Kanye observers might suggest that these comments are just classic Kanye rambling, a habit that occasionally has taken the rapper into some offensive places. Back in 2011, West drew criticism when he complained that his detractors looked at him as if he were Hitler.

See what comments upset the ADL in the video above.

Source: AllHipHop