Kanye West has revealed that he thinks Drake can still recover from his beef with Kendrick Lamar – see what he had to say below.
Yesterday (February 3), West and his wife Bianca Censori courted controversy on the Grammys red carpet when she took off her jacket to reveal a completely see-through dress, revealing her nude figure. The stunt was reportedly done to replicate the album cover of ‘Vultures 1’, his ¥$ collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign. Shortly after, the couple left the Grammys and did not attend the main ceremony.
Shortly after the ceremony wrapped, Kanye reportedly hosted an afterparty where he screened the premiere of his The Download interview with Justin Laboy, per Billboard. In a clip of the interview that has since made its way onto social media, Laboy and West spoke about Drake and how he can move forward from his intense 2024 feud with Kendrick Lamar.
In a clip, West briefly agrees when Laboy declares that “Kendrick killed Drake”. West noted that he though Drake was only on the losing end “for now” before adding: “You can’t ever count out Steph Curry. That man might get 200 points in one song or something.”
West goes on to explain: “You know what it was is, like, look at the Tyler, the Creator freestyle that he did. ‘That Guy,’ right? Drake added something to the algorithm, to our frequency. He advanced us. Future advanced us. And now, Kendrick has advanced the frequency.”
Kanye’s comments after he appeared to side with Kendrick last year amidst the Compton rapper’s feud with Drake when he dropped a remix to ‘Like That’. Kanye’s involvement at the time came as part of his longtime drama with Drake.
At the Grammys, Kendrick Lamar swept the awards, winning five awards, all for ‘Not Like Us’. The rapper won two of the night’s biggest awards: Record of the Year and Song of the Year. He also won Best Music Video, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance – check out the full list of Grammy winners here.
‘Not Like Us’ was crowned the second best song of 2024 by NME, writing: “‘Not Like Us’ packaged intelligent, intensely researched character assassinations into a fierce, booming DJ Mustard-produced club hit. Though his savage, accusatory wordplay grabbed the headlines, it was Lamar’s dissection of Drake as “coloniser” that truly underlined his pure vitriol.”
Drake is Down Under and apparently over his head, as a lot of people online raised their eyebrows when they saw a shirt that he wore while out during his Australia and New Zealand "Anita Max Win" tour. Moreover, the shirt reads "WAIT TILL U SEE MY" and shows an arrow pointing down... Classy, Drizzy, real classy. Of course, this led some people to bring up the allusions to his leaked videos in the Kendrick Lamar battle, whether that was the 6ix God boasting about his "video proof" or K.Dot claiming that he leaked the video himself.
A lot of folks clowned this move as a cringe-fueled display from someone pushing 40 or just found it funny, but either way, folks got a laugh out of it for better or worse. Of course, this is far from the first time that Drake caught flack for his outfits or for his maturity, but that's not a critique that Kanye West had in praise of his latest look. It was a hoodie with bullet holes in it with smoke emerging from them, a solid representation of how he's still standing after so many people dragged him through the mud.
Elsewhere during this Australian trek, Drake also felt quite generous, as he gave two random fans at a Perth show $20K each. "I don’t know where you’ve been in your life... That’s what we do out here in Perth," he remarked. "You got to show love. You see, it’s nights like these that we can never take for granted. It’s 14,000 people inside one building, and we all got here safe." These moments of genuine appreciation and connection make outfits like these all the more bizarre and easy to pile on.
Regardless of whether or not more suggestive shirts are in the closet, Drake will continue his "Anita Max Win" trek all throughout February and wrap it up on March 16 in Auckland. Perhaps we will see more wild fits and virally clowned moments, but there's also a lot of interest in his next projects and whatever Kendrick has to say about the beef these days. So who knows what The Boy's next angle will be?