Consequence has revealed that he originally appeared on Common and Kanye West‘s hit “They Say,” but he ultimately was removed from the song before its official release.
Taking to Instagram with a photo of the G.O.O.D. Music logo on Wednesday (December 18), Cons shared his verse that never made the final cut of Common’s 2005 album, Be.
“We was supposed to do a video with the version with me on it but it never happened…” he revealed in the caption.
Some fans noted that it wasn’t completely unreleased, however, as a leaked version of the album before its official release actually contained his verse.
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“Real ones heard this on the mixtape back in the day,” one fan wrote.
“I had the bootleg Be so I heard this before the Ye verse lol,” someone else said.
Consequence took a nearly 10-year hiatus following his 2007 debut Don’t Quit Your Day Job!; and another extended break between his 2017 EP A Good Comeback Story and his sophomore album Nice Doing Business With You, which was released earlier this year.
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And on an interview with the Toure Show in October, he explained exactly why that happened.
“I had a record deal with Motown that didn’t pan out due to the fact that, um, I had a number one record at Urban Radio,” Consequence explained, later adding, “Motown’s Urban radio department, my record was the number one priority in the building. And then the Taylor Swift incident happened, and anything that Kanye was associated with got pulled from radio.”
After Yeezy interrupted Taylor at the VMA’s, Cons’ “Whatever You Want” with Ye and John Legend lost its momentum.
Consequence was asked if his record got shelved and he said: “It didn’t get shelved because it was out, but it just lost all momentum. The only record that radio was even considering playing at that time because it already started and had a big push was ‘Run This Town.’ My shit was still on the climb.”
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Cons continued: “Anything with Kanye at that time, that’s how GOODFridays ended up happening. He had to release it directly to people because the politics was crazy at the time.”
