Rhymefest was the latest participant in BET’s “Rate The Bars” video series, but his ratings came with a little behind-the-scenes information.
The veteran MC was asked to rate Kanye West’s infamous lyrics from “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” where he raps, “Now, if I fuck this model/ And she just bleached her asshole/ And I get bleach on my T-shirt/ I’ma feel like an asshole.” Rhymefest recalled his disbelief when hearing the lines for the first time in the studio with ‘Ye.
“When I first heard this lyric, I said, ‘Huh, what that mean?’ Whatchu talking ’bout?” Rhymefest noted. “And there was another rapper there that I’m not gonna name that was like, ‘Nah, that’s that hot shit. Rhymefest just old, he don’t like that. That’s that old school Hip Hop shit. He don’t know, he ain’t up.’
He added, “And I said that nigga wanna be famous. That person trying to do something. ‘Nah that’s for the club, that’s for the club, you know, people gonna be turned up.'”
Rhymefest said he tried to deter West from using the lyric, explaining why it wouldn’t work. But in the end, it resulted in him leaving The Life Of Pablo studio sessions altogether.
“I said, ‘This is not who you are. Who you are is your humanity and vanity have to fight each other.’ If it’s all vanity or all humanity, it don’t work,” he said before reading the lyrics aloud again. “This right here, this was the beginning. And this is when I took an airplane and went home and said, ‘Fuck it.’”
Rhymefest gave the bars a zero rating.
Check out the entire episode below for his ratings of Lupe Fiasco, G Herbo, Sasha Go Hard and more.
Rhymefest a square forreal. Let Kanye live
always thought that line was lame
Rhymefest is a snake. Before Donda House shutdown his employees exposed him.
When? I cant find any links on google..
Rhymefest told Kanye the truth as did GLC Kanye is playing himself and ruining his legacy. terrible EP people need to be honest and these 7 song albums are overrated EP’s he is nowhere near dope as the Good morning Kanye West or Family business. sorry SUN. he needs to get rid of the yes men and women…lol he dont take advice from someone less successful than him…. words of a fool. He is measuring his success in the wrong way. this world is built for the European and they have always been tickled at us making a fool of ourselves. lol Kanye been real successful at that……… 9th wonder never had to do that…. nor did premier , Dj Quik, Terrace Martin ……..
By grammy standards the album is an album. Kanye West is being himself and doing what he wants to do, he is sucessful so i guess he line about dont taking advice is working. People needs to study art instead of being obsessed by shitty bangers or oldhead regressive ideas of a good song. The sound needs to evolve, we need to keep innovating, hip-hop cant stagnate like oldheads wants to. You have modernized lyricists like Kendrick and Joey Bada$$, Vince Staples and so on forgot this old ways. Go listen to Nas’ new album. WE NEED THESE KANYE EXPERIMENTAL BEATS FOR THE FUTURE.
People need to throttle back from using that phrase “needs to evolve” or “old head”. Real Hip hop is what is it is and what it should be. Material that is not hip hop should not be classified as such. If anything material like that is regression or even degredation of the lifestyle, lyrical skill and art form many of us cultivated for decades before these geniuses” were on the scene.
Nope simply untrue man. All genres evolve. You really are just out of touch and thats ok.
What experimental beats? Lot of the best beats been used before lol
I never liked that line. Why would you be wearing a T-shirt if you smash a model? And why would there still be bleach left behind? It makes no sense. But somehow it works because the production is so dope.
Who on the fuuuck ever bought a Rhymefest album?
I’ve downloaded his Man in the Mirror mixtape and a few songs of his albums from ITunes. “City is Falling”, “How High” w/ Little Brother, “Brand New”, “Build Me Up”, “More”, “Bullet”, and one more from his first album where he drops a line about how Kanye can’t relate to the struggle anymore because he hasn’t been broke since “h to the izzo”. Those are the songs I specifically remember, but yeah neither of his albums were classics all the way through but he’s not a wack artist by any means. He also battled Eminem in one of the big battle tournaments back before either one was famous, and he beat him.
But it clicked
The line gets a reaction though. So who’s to say then that it doesn’t have success as a lyric? Vs an accepted lyric that gets no one out of their bubble talking about it?
Heterosexual men, unlike you
Rhymefest looks like a bleached asshole
Lol
LMFAO
What’s up with his hair and beard? lmao
agreed, that cat looks weirdo as hell but that’s my boy lmao
PLOT TWIST: HE WAS THE BLEACHED ASSHOLE
i give that lil reese a 0/5. that wasnt even rap. it was just talk about money. no rhymes. not hating, just being honest. it literally wasnt rapping
I’m just happy that the world was reminded of Lupe Fiasco’s greatness in this video.
Oh yeah, he also had a dope song with Lil Jon that I don’t think was ever released called “Angry Black Man on an Elevator”. I remember waiting for El Che so I could hear it but it wasn’t on it, but I think you can still find it on YouTube.
Lupe the goat
Michael Jackson was the OG of bleached assholes
He must be talking bout pusha T ( the rapper he didn’t wanna name)
CYHI
Rhymefest refers to himself in the 3rd person. I think hes the real asshole here???
Kanye was in some crazy celebrity circles. He probably did fuck some girl with a bleached asshole and got it on his shirt. or heard of that happening to someone.
rhymefest is such a square he cant relate or understand.
You can ?
The girl was him
I love how hiphopdx used a pic of Rhymefest with bleached hair for this article hahaha
He’s a bleached asshole
Drop a Late registration , in fact drop a College dropout, in fact. a graduation.. MBDF..808?DROPTHETHRONE??Fuck a late registration 1,2 or 3, Nasir,kids se ghost??????fuck u irrelevant bish
Yup Ye stan..but my idol eatss ur all day
And this is what happens when you’re not a yes-man – thank you for your services, bro, you have a plane to catch.
Be Tru 2 Da Game
Not sure I get why Rhymefest has been airing out dirty laundry in public. If Ye was really your man step to him and check him directly if there’s an issue. Don’t run to the media. Doing essentially the same shit yet was doing when he cried to the public about Jay and Beyoncé. BUT for the record…that bleached asshole line was absolutely 1000% trash. Whoever that rapper was he played ye lol.
Dumbass learn how to rap then talk shit
No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. It gets the people going!
Fish
Didn’t Drake allegedly help write that song. That explains why it’s basic as hell. Whenever Drake writes verses with Kanye they are usually trash except for 30 Hours. That was dope overall. Plus now Rhymefest dyed his hair but no one is calling him out for it. See the Kanye Hate train is in full effect these days.
Rhyme fest is the black version of a cuck.him and Rosenberg should do a TV show together call that shit 2 flew over the cuckholds nest. Damn pansies
Rosenberg is a jevv.
“Clinton ain’t in office how we gone get shit free now?” Then he said that now that you cannot get shit free you have to go and get it yourself… that proves why we need capitalism, because people won’t rely on welfare, they will actually need to get a job and then unemployment goes down. Rhymefest thinks he’s so conscious and shit but he is so ignorant that he doesn’t even realize that he is proving himself wrong
That’s debatable bro. Some people absolutely rely on welfare as a way out of a job, but others rely on it while they work just to get by. I don’t think lack of motivation is the reason behind unemployment rates, at least not to the degree that ending welfare programs would see the employment rate spike.
his hair is bleached like a asshole
Agreed that lyric is horrible.
Rhymefest purpose in life is to talk about Kanye West….no one talks to Fest about his own music ?
I like this guy!!! He’s smart!!! Really smart. He see’s where this rap generation is heading…you hear it in their music, lyrics songs. It’s really messed up…look how they killing each other without a thought or care….humanity out the door. New rap is without name calling but celebrating life!