Over the past couple of weeks, Ye has been calling out everyone and their momma over their apparent “betrayals” against him. From Playboi Carti allegedly taking him off his new album MUSIC to not liking Kendrick Lamar’s music, Ye’s been giving out free smoke.
However, things got even messier when DJ Akademiks finally released the mainly uncut interview (other than eight edits requested by his team) he had with Ye “moments before he left for Japan.”
Ye lets the choppa sing
Akademiks revealed the interview while on live stream on March 30. Pulling up to the hotel room to talk in a black KKK hood and robe (which he doesn’t wear in public in case someone tries “to put me in the hospital for my outfit”), Ye shared all of his every-changing thoughts and feelings on celebrities and rappers. Find out what he said below.
Drake
The rapper said Drizzy is “a million times better than Kendrick and a million times more important…What Future has done, [Young] Thug, Drake, culturally — that shit last year, I could barely sit through that shit. That shit was insane, bro. Had Lucian Grainge, Universal, Drake lawsuit shit written all over it.”
Ty Dolla $ign
He claims that Ty was threatened by his label to denounce Ye back in February. “They literally called Ty Dolla and said — and this is coercion, that’s why these n***** are gonna be locked up one day — they said you have to denounce Ye publicly or we’re gonna drop your artist, Leon [Thomas] [and] cancel all your tours…They on some mob shit,” he said.
Jay-Z
Ye, in a since-deleted tweet, insulted the Brooklyn rapper and Beyoncé’s twins, Sir and Rumi. He isn’t backing down, though, proclaiming, “Let’s take it to money — how much money you think Jay-Z makes off my catalog versus what I make off it? Next subject.”
Diddy
He doubled down on supporting the former mogul, saying that “Puff is more like my twin” despite their past conflicts. “We family, we can get into it,” he said.
Travis Scott
Ye claims that he was also removed from Scott’s 2023 album UTOPIA despite recording four songs together for the project at his ranch in Wyoming.
Playboi Carti
Ye still feels betrayed by Carti over leaving him off the album, stating that “you’re reposting my baby momma and not even reposting me…You were the first feature on Donda. It’s like the Carti shit is like the final heartbreak.” He also revealed they were working on a joint mixtape before MUSIC dropped.
Virgil Abloh
He said he continues dissing his former collaborator and friend because “I’m evil.”
Frank Ocean
Ye thinks that his song “Moon” is why the elusive singer hasn’t dropped new music since 2016’s Blonde. “He ain’t have a song since then. He talking, ‘Sipping some wine.’ I knew it, I heard it, I was like, ‘Oh, this n**** not gonna be able to make another album again…Any genre of music that anyone has, I make a better version of it. I’m 10 times stronger at music than anyone living,” he said.
Kim Kardashian
He said that he knew he didn’t want to have kids with her “after the first two months of being with her. But that wasn’t God’s plan.”
Since the interview (which raked in over 800K live viewers and will apparently have a part two), Ye has been back on X and said that he “loves Carti” (not an April Fools joke). Only time will tell what he has to say next about the rap game and the people he used to be closest to.
