Kanye West Apologizes to Drake on Twitter Amid Rap Feud
Kanye West appears to be trying to make amends with Drake after months of back-and-forth feuding.
Early Wednesday morning, West took to Twitter to post a lengthy apology and explanation behind what led to the rappers’ beef.
“Sending good energy and love to Drake and family and crew,” he captioned a screenshot of Drake’s stage. “I haven’t seen the show in person but the images look incredible online. I understand where the confusion started.”
The 41-year-old rapper went on to directly apologize for “stepping on your release date in the first place.” West surprised fans when he released Ye on June 1, while Drake dropped his album, Scorpion, a few weeks later on June 29.
West said that when he announced release dates for the many albums he was producing at the time, “I was a bit ramped up doing 25 tweets a day, TMZ happened shortly after.”
During his appearance on TMZ Live in May, the rapper caused controversy when he claimed slavery was a “choice.” He has since apologized for those comments.
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
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
West goes on to tweet that during this time, he and Drake were “building as friends and brothers.” That was until the release of Pusha T’s album, Daytona, on May 25, which West produced. The album included two diss tracks, “Infrared” and “The Story of Adidon,” aimed at Drake, one of which alleged that the 31-year-old rapper had a secret son. While some fans thought it was West that disclosed this information to Pusha, the father of three insisted that he did not.
Last week, Drake also seemed to react to West’s interview on the 107.5 WGCI Morning Show, where he said he felt Drake was “insensitive” to continue their feud while West was having a difficult time.
West claimed the two feuded over a beat, which resulted in Drake sending him purple demon emojis. Drake seemingly responded to the interview by posting a photo of himself and captioning it with a purple demon emoji.
Back in June, Drake’s producer, J. Prince, also said he told the rapper not to release a second diss track in response to “The Story of Adidon” because it would have “ended” West’s career.
“And definitely would’ve hurt families, and we’re not in it for that,” J.Prince said on Sway in the Morning. “That’s not Drake’s character to tear a man down to that extent.”
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