Ye and Drake have had a love/hate relationship over the years.
The two had a friendly rivalry up until he produced Pusha T‘s “Infrared” song in 2018 where the Virginia rapper brought up Drake’s ghostwriting allegations. The Toronto rapper took shots at both of them on “Duppy Freestyle,” and mentioned that he had written for Kanye in the past. And then “The Story of Adidon” followed, and the rest is history. Drake felt betrayed by some of the information in Push’s scathing diss record, and his and Ye’s relationship really hasn’t been the same since.
However, in a recent trip to China, where he performed, Ye thanked his rival for penning the hook for his song “Yikes” off the Chicago rapper’s Ye album that was released in 2018. “I wanna thank Drake for writing this chorus for me,” he said as the song started to play.
Kanye shouted out Drake before playing ‘Yikes’ at his recent concert in China 🙏
“I wanna thank Drake for writing this chorus for me” pic.twitter.com/DkoHh21OTv
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) October 4, 2024
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Footage of Drake recording a “Yikes” reference for Ye surfaced on his 100 Gigs purge.
Drake recording Kanye’s reference track for yikes pic.twitter.com/imjJgy7MGs
— Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) August 6, 2024
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This isn’t the first Ye extended an olive branch to Drake. While performing in South Korea in August, he dedicated a performance of Graduation’s “I Wonder” to him. “This one for Drake,” he said as the song started playing.
Kanye gives a shoutout to Drake before performing ‘I Wonder’
“This one for Drake”pic.twitter.com/AtnjE7lmhG
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) August 23, 2024
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This is about four months after Ye tried to get in on the Drake Hate train with his own “Like That” diss where he rapped, “Where’s Lucian? Serve your master, n—a/You caught a little bag for your masters, didn’t ya? Lifetime deal, I feel bad for n—s/Y’all so outta sight, outta mind I can’t even think of a Drake line.”
We’ll be sure to update once we figure out what happened between then and now.
