In the lead-up to both albums' supposed launch dates, though, something snapped and Kanye went off on Drake, doxxing Drizzy much to Drake's glee. We pick up our saga a few years later, after COVID-19 shut down the world and Kanye lost the presidential race, after one of Kanye's unreleased Drake disses leaked and a Kanye/Drake Verzuz battle failed to materialize, things took a turn for the worst.īoth Kanye and Drake were planning to release new albums in 2021, see: Drake was supposed to drop Certified Lover Boy back in January and Kanye, free from Twitter, was devoting all his energy to DONDA, yielding high-profile concerts, weird gizmos, and even deluxe versions. You know where it came from.” Chapter Fourteen: President Kanye vs. So when you’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t know where it comes from.’ You’re too smart for that, bro. You know, if I had a girlfriend from Chicago and her name was Ranita and you were married to Rihanna, I wouldn’t make no song called RiRi. “The fact that people are making rumors and thinking that you fucked my wife and you’re not saying anything and you’re carrying it well like that,” Kanye said. It's no secret that Drake's earlier music was inspired by Graduation, 808's & Heartbreak and Kanye's penchant for incorporating earnest emotion into his music.įrom 2007-2009, Drake hopped on various Ye tracks including 'Barry Bonds,' 'Swagga Like Us,' and a re-imagined 'Say You Will' on his classic mixtape So Far Gone. The duo traded barbs through unreleased tracks and social media tussles until late in 2021 when they suddenly appeared to kiss and make up.Īhead of their collaborative concert to benefit Larry Hoover on December 9, let's take a brief look back at the history between Kanye and Drake and see what inspired the rollercoaster relationship of contemporary rap's two MVPs.

Over the past decade or so, Drake has gone from idolizing Kanye, to collaborating with him, to beefing with him in a constant loop that showed no signs of stopping until recently. Working together, the two could potentially be unstoppable, but, for years, their egos seemed to be too big to share the same rap throne. Instead of Allen Iverson and Michael Jordan, the hip-hop all-stars are more akin to Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal in their early Laker years. him for your survival,' Drake raps on 'Thank Me Now,' a fitting summary of his relationship with Kanye West. 'And that's around the time/That your idols become your rivals/You make friends with Mike/But got to A.I. This article was updated on December 8, 2021

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