Talib Kweli brings his recent meeting with Kanye West after the “Drink Champs” diss.
Kanye West has really taken over the social media with his latest interview on “Drink Champs” last week, and now they’ve uploaded the second part, making it one of the biggest rap interviews ever. Once again, the interview brought several revelations and name drops, including Talib Kweli, who was one of the artists who criticized Kanye West for his support to former US President Donald Trump.
During Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, West controversially expressed his support for the former U.S. president. Talib Kweli, who had previously cooperated with West, tweeted at the time that West should reject Trump and “return home.” West revealed on “Drink Champs” that he was offended by the message.“If I was like you, I’d be where you at,” he said. “Now, if you take the average 99% of people and ask them, do you want to be Kweli or do you want to be Ye? Most people are going to want to be Ye. So…don’t give me no advice. Go open a book and read yourself to death.”
Kanye West apologized to “The Beautiful Struggle” rapper, and at the same time, also took shots at him. “I apologize, once again, to Kweli,” said Kanye West. “I’m sorry I never f**ked with your raps… Oh sh*t, I did just see that n***a… I totally forgot… Oh… I’m really gonna have to fight this man. It’s gonna be 12 n****s with fitted caps from 12 years ago chasing me.”
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After the clip went viral, Talib Kweli took to his social media to respond to Ye and brought up stories about his recent meetings with Kanye West. “So apparently @kanyewest wants me to tell y’all about the last couple of times we hung out. Ok. Here’s pics from the last couple of times we hung out, the first is from last year, the second is from just last month. In these hang out sessions many things happened,” he wrote.
Talib continues, “Kanye came to get 88 Keys who was staying with me and invited me to breakfast with them. We had a good talk that day. Kanye told me that he has a severe drinking problem, he said his butler would bring him grey goose first thing in the morning. Then he tried to convince me to stop drinking. So it was weird to see him throwing back shots on @drinkchamps.”
“Kanye privately told me that he no longer supports Trump but then continued to publicly show support for Trump. He blamed his support for Trump on Rick Rubin. He also said that Rick Rubin is the one who told him to link with Candace Owens. I thought it was weird for him to pass the buck like that. – I was very happy to see the homie @chicagodonc there that day. Don C is a good dude.”
“when I saw him on my birthday at Dave’s show, just last month, he was warm and gracious. He came by himself no entourage or security, that was dope. I was djing and he sat next to me sometimes mouthing the words to his old songs and smiling when I dropped songs that he’s sampled. I did however have mass Brooklyn dudes with classic baseball caps with me that day tho, so maybe he wanted to say he didn’t like my raps but choose not to due to that. He mentions this on Drink Champs. Funny thing is tho all my squad including me got love for Ye. None of us love his drunk rhetoric tho.”
“The baseball hat jab is hilarious. The disrespect of my rhyme skills is subjective opinions. None of that matters to me. What does matter to me is truth and accountability. Kanye is an amazing artist but MAGA is terrorism. January 6th proved that. No amount of deflection changes that fact,” added Kweli. “I say all this to say, apology accepted Ye,” he concludes.
Kanye declared Common “is a thousand times better rapper than” Talib during the first section of his Drink Champs interview. You asked me my opinion. My opinion is that everybody knows that Common [is better]. The only thing I don’t like about Common is he, like, works for the Democrats. … John Legend-a*s n***as, bro.”
Kanye added, “Man, you can’t tell me what I’m going through in my life. … If you take the average 99 percent of people and say, ‘Do you wanna be Kweli or do you wanna be Ye?’ More people are gonna wanna be Ye, Kweli,” he said of the Black Star member. “What you talking about? So like you told that man, don’t give me no advice. Go open a book, read yourself to death.”
Will came upon a few verses from Kanye weaving a tale about attempting to leverage his relationship to Black Star to get laid while listening to the Ye and Talib duet “Get Em High.” After hearing Will’s point of view, the tone Ye brought to Drink Champs is reframed. “Without this lyric and without the doc, it sounded like vampiric, draconian, leech n**** sh*t. Like “I’m leeching on you and I don’t really care about you. F**k you. I just did this trickery. But under this umbrella — it’s light.”
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