Kanye West Has Extended An Olive Branch To Drake, Ensuring World Peace
It's over.
Given there’s been a lot of feuds this year (seriously, almost too many to keep up with), you’d be forgiven for missing the icy detente between Drake and Kanye West.
For a quick recap: in June, Drake and Pusha T’s career-spanning beef spiralled out when the latter dropped ‘The Story Of Adidon’, a scathing track which lambasted Drake for relying on ghostwriters — oh, and revealing the Toronto rapper had a secret son. The whole thing undercut Drake’s planned reveal on Scorpion, his so-so album which dropped a week later.
‘Adidon’ was a response to Drake’s ‘Duppy Freestyle’, a track which took aim at both Pusha and Kanye — who became involed because he produced ‘Infrared’, a track on Pusha’s latest album Daytona which name-drops one of Drake’s ghostwriters, Quentin Miller.
Of course, it’s not quite as simple as that — we’re sure the internet’s new conspiracy theory suggesting that Drake and Kim Kardashian West had an affair isn’t helping things. There’s also the matter of West overshadowing Scorpion by releasing five high-profile albums on his label G.O.O.D Music around the same time, including two of his own.
But now, West has attempted to clear the air in a series of tweets, beginning by sending “good energy and love” to the rapper and saying he apologises for “stepping on your release date”.
Sending good energy and love to Drake and family and crew💜💜💜
I haven’t seen the show in person but the images look incredible online
I understand where the confusion started pic.twitter.com/oxSEEbNB1g
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
West distanced himself from the Pusha T beef, saying he “never listened to either diss track” by the acts, and clarifying that he didn’t chat to the rapper about Drake’s child (which, assumedly means he was in the loop). He also apologised for releasing ‘Lift Yourself’ — that stand-alone ‘scoop-da-poop’ song — without consulting Drake further, since the two planned for it to be a collab song.
All in all, he says he’s on a “Jedi level” and will be heading to Drake’s national tour in the next week “to give love”. Can you feel it in the air?
Read the tweets below.
Let me start by apologizing for stepping on your release date in the first place … We were building a bond and working on music together including squashing the issues with Cudi at our office.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
When I put the dates up I was a bit ramped up doing 25 tweets a day TMZ happened shortly after … I have to hop on the plane now… will type more when I land
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
plane taxiing for take off… because we spoke about doing Lift Yourself together I should have given you the opportunity for us to do this together before I released it
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
since we were building as friends and brothers I should have spoken to Pusha about the Quentin Miller bar. There should have been no songs with my involvement that had any negative energy towards you
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
I never listened to either diss track that followed but I did hear quotes from both songs after they were released
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
I did not have any conversations about your child with Pusha. I don’t play with the idea of people’s children after I spoke to Wiz a few years earlier.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
I understand Pusha’s issues as a man if someone mentions your fiancé men go mask off. I’ve done the same myself at times. I love you and I love Pusha and we all have an admiration for each other’s craft.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018
This is all Jedi level. I will be coming to your show within the next seven days to give love and be inspired by the art you have created.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 5, 2018