Kanye West Thanks Drake For Writing Some Of His Raps
Kanye West has thanked Drake for serving to him write a few of his rhymes, marking one other twist of their on-again, off-again feud.
Yeezy and Ty Dolla $ignperformed in China final week for his or her second Vultures listening expertise within the nation.
In a video from the present that solely started circulating on Thursday (October 3), Kanye may be heard exhibiting like to Drake for his help within the studio whereas performing his 2018 ye minimize “Yikes.”
“I wanna thank Drake for writing this chorus for me,” he mentioned through the intro of the observe.
Kanye shouted out Drake earlier than enjoying ‘Yikes’ at his latest live performance in China
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Kanye’s surprising shoutout comes shortly after a video of Drake recording his reference observe for “Yikes” emerged as a part of the Toronto rapper’s 100 Gigs content material dump.
Although Drizzy was credited as a songwriter, the observe — and the remainder of ye — arrived on the peak of his beef with Kanye’s shut collaborator and then-G.O.O.D. Music labelmate Pusha T.
Yeezy himself was dragged into the back-and-forth, with Drake taking photographs at him on “Duppy Freestyle” and creating a fake $100,000 bill for “promotional assistance and career reviving” addressed to G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam.
Drake even alluded to lending his pen to Kanye on “Duppy Freestyle,” rapping: “I’ve done things for him I thought that he never would need / Father had to stretch his hands out and get it from me / I pop style for 30 hours then let him repeat.”
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He additionally spit: “I just left from over by y’all puttin’ pen to the sheets / Tired of sittin’ quiet and helpin’ my enemies eat.”
The shoutout additionally comes simply weeks after Kanye devoted a efficiency of “I Wonder” to Drake throughout his and Ty Dolla $ign’s live performance in South Korea in August.
The pleasant gestures are a pointy 180 from earlier this 12 months when Ye dissed his “Forever” collaborator, in addition to J. Cole, on a remix of Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That.”
“Y’all so out of sight, out of mind / I can’t even think of a Drake line / Play J. Cole, get the pussy dry,” he rapped.
The Chicago native additionally took varied photographs at his Canadian modern in an interview with Justin Laboy, claiming this his music “means nothing anymore” and that he’s responsible of “fixing” his spectacular streaming stats.
