Mos Def has sided with Kanye West in light of last weekend’s Video Music Awards controversy and aired out television host Jay Leno for using the rapper’s deceased mother for a question during their televised interview.

“Can I be real with you for a minute?,” Mos asked a crowd of fans. “Kanye West is my friend, my brother…This motherf*cker 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 motherf*ckers rock with himif you think he this, think he that. I’m rocking with him…When they start kicking on me like, I hope somebody on a national platform say ‘That’s my motherf*cking man.’ And Jay Leno, with your banana boat face having a**, you need to apologize to Kanye West for having him with his mother talk, what she would think, she would think she’d need to smack your f*cking banana face-having a** face off trying to be slick…”