Kanye West has confessed that there have been times in the past where he has copied from Drake.
Though the two have collaborated on songs such as “Glow” and “Forever”, they have largely spent the last few years exchanging shots and subliminals.
However, in a new livestream with Drake affiliate Top5, West copped to lifting flows from and being inspired by the 6 God.
He said: “The thing about Drake’s music is he ain’t got shit where he copies what I do. I’ll have copied a Drake flow a lot of times. I got shit that once Drake took over the algorithm was copies of Drake.”
Despite their often acrimonious relationship, West has been busy praising Drake of late, particularly over his controversial defamation lawsuit against UMG.
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“Yo, I’m so happy right now, you don’t understand. With this UMG, Drake, Kendrick situation, Super Bowl, Grammys — this shit was driving me and you know where it should be driving me, but this is the biggest victory in music history right here,” he said in a video posted on X.
Ye then vowed to end his on-again, off-again beef with the Canadian superstar, saying: “I’m never finna call Drake out of his name. I’m team Drake, 100%. And team Kendrick and Team all of us! Kendrick needs to be going at UMG at this point.
“This is what I said in my version of ‘Like That,’” he added, referencing his remix of Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick’s hit song. “I said, ‘Lucian [Grainge, UMG CEO], your lifetime deal.’ Like, let’s stop aiming all this at each other. Bro, you have no idea.”
The Chicago native concluded by saying: “Everything is worth everything for a moment like this, where we stop going at each other and we go at the slave masters.”
He also posted a link to Drake’s recently amended lawsuit and wrote: “I have to show Drake love for going at the machine. This is a very important moment in music history. For some reason I felt like I was on Drakes side concerning this situation. Now here’s over 100 pages to show why.”
