After apologizing for his insensitive comments on slavery at Chicago’s WGCI radio station last week, it appears Kanye West is still feeling remorseful, taking to Twitter today (Sept 5th) to apologize to none other than Drake.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1037248184215527425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1037248184215527425&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2018%2F09%2F05%2Fkanye-west-drake-twitter-apology
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
If you remember, Kanye came under question when sensitive information regarding Toronto rapper’s son was divulged during his back and forth with Pusha T.
Drake and Kanye had been working on music together at the time and it was the assumption that Kanye had to be the culprit. But he isn’t that’s not the case. “I did not have any conversations about your child with Pusha,” he writes.
It’s clear Drake has severed ties with the G.O.O.D Music CEO, dissing him while stopping through Chicago on his tour with the Migos and again on a forthcoming collaborative single with French Montana, “No Stylist.” “I told her don’t wear no 350s ’round me,” Drake raps during a newly-leaked snippet of the record.
https://twitter.com/NoIDs1/status/1037079848278220806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1037079848278220806&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2F2018%2F9%2Fdrake-kanye-west-diss-no-stylist-french-montana
yooo @IamAkademiks drake switch the lines in “Know Yourself” and said KANYE FLOPPED pic.twitter.com/dYKQzXGwVV
— Ov3rrrrr (@Over_Random) August 18, 2018
Kanye’s apology tour could mean new music, or possibly that his return to Chicago is making him open up more than usual. He did reopen rumors on running for President on DJ Pharris’s Power 92 Chicago this week. Who knows?
We may not know why someone with an ego as big a Kanye’s is doing all this apologizing, but we’d be amiss to not think anything of it.
Ye by himself is already a master marketer and now that he’s paired with Kim, everything he does must be second-guessed and scrutinized. Whether it’s to ensure a Drake feature on Chance’s project or a chess move for something bigger down the line, you cannot take anything Kanye does at face value.
Either way, it’s going to take a lot more to winning back over the public after his disparaging remarks and shortsighted political views.
Only time will tell if Drake responds or gives Kanye the time of day, but, it does appear that he is not gotten everything off of his chest.
In the meanwhile, what we do know is that we’ll be hearing more of Kanye as he works on Chance the Rappers new album in Chicago.
