“He was an artist, in every sense, from his cover art to his music. “When I was a kid trying to figure out what I liked, it was Ye who I related to the most,” he told The Source. In October, he paid his respects to his peer in an interview while also laying down the gauntlet. “There’s two other rappers that are coming out with an album together… I don’t know where they got that idea.” October 2011Īfter that jab, 2011 was mostly quiet until Drake began to take shots at West again. “I heard some other guys are coming out with an album, too,” he said, while discussing his plans to do a collaborative record with Lil Wayne. While speaking to Tim Westwood, Drake took a not-so-subtle crack at Ye and Jay-Z’s plans to release a joint album. With the turn of the year, so the first real cracks in the pair’s friendship began to show. I’d even go as far as to say he’s the most influential person as far as a musician that I’d ever had in my life.” April 2010 “Drake said, ‘ Do you like girls like I do? Les-bi-honest!!!!!’ Best line of the year so far!” he wrote (insert eye roll emoji here).ĭays later, Drake returned the favour in an interview in which he credited the Chicago rapper for “shap a lot of what I do, as far as music goes.” He continued: “Before I met him, I had the utmost respect for Kanye West. On his old blog, Kanye shouted out Drake for one line on his track ‘Every Girl’.

Back in May 2009, the then-new friends had lots of praise for each other.

It’s not always been tense tweets and threats between Drizzy and Yeezy. Here’s track the beef from start to finish (although, when we last looked, Kanye was still tweeting.) May 2009 The heavyweight rappers’ friendship has been on a rollercoaster journey through the years but has hit new lows in 2018, with secret kids, Travis Scott, Pusha T, and more all being dragged into the pair’s feud. Everybody needs good neighbours but things must be a little fraught in Kanye West and Drake‘s neighbourhood right now.

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