Kanye West has added another dimension to the ongoing feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar by entering the race as a third-party candidate.
Earlier this week, Ye shared his 2016 collaboration with K.Dot, “No More Parties In LA,” on social media, leading many to believe that he was siding with the latter in the aforementioned beef. It now turns out that the only team the Chicago native plays for is his own as he refuses to step down from his captaincy in any way, shape or form.
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On Thursday (March 28), Yeezy shared a since-deleted note on Instagram and took sole credit for a number of notable accomplishments over the past few years, all of which involved collaborating with other creatives.
“EVERYONE KNOWS I WASHED KENDRICK ON NO MORE PARTIES IN LA,” he began. “EVERYONE KNOWS I WASHED DRAKE AT THE FREE HOOVER CONCERT/ EVERYONE KNOWS I BROUGHT ADIDAS INTO THIS CULTURE AND, I TOOK THEM OUT/ EVERYONE KNOWS LOTTA DEMNA VIRGIL JERRY KIM ALL WORKED FOR ME.”
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He continued: “I MADE YEEZUS DARK FANTASY PABLO/ GRADUATION THRONE 808S/ I MADE RUNAWAY DEVIL IN A NEW DRESS FATHER STRETCH/ I AM THE ONLY PERSON TO COME BACK TO NUMBER ONE AFTER CANCELLATION.
“THERE IS ONLY ONE GOAT/ I STAND BY ME/ MY FRIENDS CALL ME YE :)”
Future and Metro Boomin‘s joint new album We Don’t Trust You includes a song called “Like That” with a surprise feature from Kendrick Lamar. On it, the former TDE rapper takes a number of shots at his peers, kicking things off with a mention of the 6 God and J. Cole‘s No. 1 single “First Person Shooter” with accusations of “sneak dissin.'”
“Yeah, get up with me/ Fuck sneak dissin’, first person shooter/ I hope they came with three switches,” he raps on the explosive joint.
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The Compton native then directly references “the big three” (a term commonly used in reference to him, Drizzy and Cole being modern Hip Hop’s primary stakeholders), claiming he’s the only one atop the rap chain.
The Dreamville boss previously mentioned Kendrick’s name and “the big three” on “First Person Shooter” in October, but took the crown by comparing himself to Muhammad Ali with the bars: “Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali.”
The “King Kunta” MC in turn compares himself to Prince and the others to Michael Jackson, suggesting his work will outlive that of his contemporaries.
“Think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD/ Muthafuck the big three, n-gga, it’s just big me/ N-gga, bum, what? I’m really like that/ And your best work is a light pack/ N-gga, Prince outlived Mike Jack’,” he spits.
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The 26-year-old closes out the verse by referencing the Canadian superstar’s 2023 album For All the Dogs and Stephen King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary with: “N-gga, bum, ‘fore all your dogs gettin’ buried/ That’s a K with all these nines, he gon’ see Pet Sematary.“
