ScHoolboy Q has revealed that a hidden lyric on his latest album Blue Lips was about Kanye West.
On the mellow, jazzy “Blueslides,” the TDE rapper touched on cancel culture, spitting: “You n-ggas see what I see? / You n-ggas really canceled [blank] / N-gga, I ain’t with it, nah / We was screaming ‘mental health’ and now we wanna kill ’em all.”
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During a tour stop in Kanye’s hometown of Chicago on Wednesday (July 24), Q revealed that the censored lyric was about his controversial “THat Part” collaborator, according to a fan in attendance.
In a Reddit post after the concert, a user named TheMisiak wrote: “Last night at his Chicago show Schoolboy Q confirmed that the person he hinted at being unfairly cancelled on ‘Blueslides’ was Kanye.”
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They added: “When Q performed Blueslides he didn’t censor himself like he did on the track itself. Just thought it was interesting that he waited until the tour to reveal who he was referencing.”
Kanye West has garnered significant controversy in recent years due to making a number of antisemitic comments that led to the end of his lucrative Yeezy partnership with adidas, among other business deals.
He has also aligned himself with a number of white supremacist figures such as Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos.
Despite the controversy, ScHoolboy Q has stood by Ye and previously defended him when he performed in California shortly before Christmas last year.
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While performing “THat Part,” ScHoolboy rapped Kanye’s lyrics on the song and defended the embattled rap mogul who has also faced backlash for praising Hitler, wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt and supporting Donald Trump.
“I don’t know about y’all but I ain’t canceled Kanye,” he said on stage. “That’s the homie. I don’t give a fuck. I’m fucking with Ye.”
ScHoolboy Q previously spoke about working with Kanye West during an interview with Hot 97 in 2016, admitting he initially thought Ye had given him a bad a verse for “THat Part” after hearing his opening line.
“I was like, ‘Aw, he served me. He gave me the woo-wop,’” he said. “When I heard it, my heart just kept breaking with every ‘Okay.’ And then I’m like, ‘Oh, I get it.’
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“Then I played it again and I’m like, ‘That’s why he’s Kanye West.’ And when I perform it at the shows, that’s the best part. I have to perform Kanye West’s verse just because of the ‘Okays!’ The whole place just screams.”
