Chance The Rapper addresses Kanye West’s outburst at him.
Earlier last year, a clip of Kanye West’s recording session from Wyoming surfaced online, where the Donda rapper was shouting at Chance The Rapper. “Sit your a*s down and listen to the album or leave,” he shouts at Chance in the video.
Chance the Rapper and Kanye West began extensively cooperating in 2016, with Chance having a significant presence on Kanye’s seventh record The Life of Pablo. Chance wrote several songs, including “Ultralight Beam,” “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1,” “Famous,” and others. Chance and Kanye’s connection cooled down after that, owing to political disagreements. Despite this, things appeared to be going well between the two rappers until the beginning of 2021, when a video of Kanye shouting at Chance leaked on social media.
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Now in a new interview on The Morning Hustle, “The Big Day” rappers react to the viral clip. “It’s a clip of a larger moment, like no one’s ever gonna get the full story of what’s going on,” he says. “And yeah, people do take it and run with it, ’cause I saw some people put, like, fake captions under the video to make it look like he was talking about my music or something like that. But in all honesty, this is real life. I have real friends and they go through real problems.”
“I did come out there to check on my friend. Me and a lot of other people still have love for Ye. But he’s a human, he’s not perfect. He was obviously going through it at that time … It made me re-evaluate my friendship with him, for sure. I had never been so close to him going through an episode.”
He continued, “At the end of the day, I definitely love the dude. That’s my guy. It sucks that sometimes people can exploit a moment that is a genuine moment.”
In a previous interview, Roc-A-Fella co-founder Dame Dash also gave some insight into the situation. “So, you know, Kanye is finishing his album and there’s people around. Chance, honestly, because of what he was reading, he came through just to check Kanye,” Dame says in the clip. “You know, again, Kanye deals with his issues at all times. They got into it, but they worked it out. At the end of the day, Chance was there just to be a friend.”
