Kanye West may be one of the most successful and influential rappers of the last 20 years, but his powers aren’t what they used to be — according to Charlamagne Tha God.
Speaking on comedian Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant podcast, the Breakfast Club host slammed Kanye for attempting to insert himself into the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar and called him musically irrelevant.
“Nobody cares about Kanye rapping,” he said. “If Kanye had done this 10 years ago, it’s like, Ooh shit, Kanye inserted himself in the beef!’
“Nobody gives a fuck about Kanye rapping in 2024. Especially when the guys that are rapping are the rappers you actually want to hear from.”
Charlamagne Tha God says that nobody cares about Kanye West rapping anymore
"if Kanye would've done this 10 years ago… (insert himself in the Drake & Kendrick beef) its like OH SH*T…. (but) nobody gives a f*ck about Kanye rapping in 2024"
– via Flagrant Podcast pic.twitter.com/SxVxGsnAAq
— SOUND | Victor Baez (@itsavibe) May 29, 2024
Despite Charlamagne’s comments, Kanye scored his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in over a decade earlier this year with “Carnival,” from his joint album with Ty Dolla $ign Vultures 1.
It marked his first chart-topper as a lead artist since 2007 when he reached the summit with “Stronger,” which has since been certified diamond.
Vultures 1 also topped the Billboard 200 following its release in February but has since fallen to No. 95 on the chart, while other semi-recent rap releases like Future and Metro Boomin‘s We Don’t Trust You, Travis Scott‘s Utopia and Drake’s For All the Dogs have held firm in the top 25.
Charlamagne Tha God previously criticized Kanye after he dissed Drake and J. Cole on a remix of Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That.”
“Kanye West is the leader of the legion of lame. What a hating-ass human,” he said on The Breakfast Club in April. “What type of man sits around saying, ‘We were all energized by the elimination’ of another man?
“This man is so miserable and has never dealt with whatever hurt and pain he’s feeling that he just wants to project it onto other people. I don’t even want Kendrick to respond no more because on ‘Like That,’ he clowned Drake and Cole for cliquing up.”
He continued: “Don’t be a part of the legion of lame, Kendrick. Metro, what are you doing? All of y’all should be running from Kanye West. Have you not read The 48 Laws of Power? Avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
“Kanye done made the whole thing corny. It was entertaining until he brought his jealous, envious ass into the picture.”
Charlamagne also revealed that Kanye edited out disparaging comments about Drake and Virgil Abloh in their 2018 interview.
“When I interviewed him back in the day, he was hating on Drake and Virgil then talking about how they took the culture from him,” he said. “And this was when he was up and he was still hating. He actually edited that part of the interview out when he was hating on Drake and Virgil.”
Despite taking more shots at Drake in an interview with Justin Laboy last month, Kanye has remained silent since the 6 God’s beef with Kendrick escalated with diss songs like “Not Like Us” and “Family Matters.”
I really, really don’t care about dude’s raps. Lol.
He’s correct.. but who gives a fck about Charlene tha Goof either ?
He’s right nobody is getting hyped over kanyes music unless you want to Go to Atlanta for an album listening performance lmao
Didn’t even need to be said. Beside the fact that he belongs in the looney bin, he’s lost his touch and doesn’t make good music anymore. Not a solid track like 4 or 5 albums running at this point. He’s as irrelevant as B.O.B. at this point.
He’s right. I haven’t listened to dude since life of Pablo.
numbers tell a different story
They do. His fanbase will continue to eat up his garbage ABC raps, while the rest of us have moved on.
He had a #1 record this year lol. Bro’s in radio broadcasting say Kanyes irrelevant.
That’s mostly because of devoted stans though, not because it’s actually good. If you put his music today against his early catalogue it’s basically an embarrassment.
That’s a ridiculous assessment
People just like Ye cuz he is Ye. He reached pop icon status like Snoop and Wayne. And coming from the guy who put gave biden a microphone to tell black Americans “you aint black if you dont vote Democrat” who cares what he thinks about Ye ?
lol j cole ‘make the pussy dry’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This guy always has a personal agenda and it keeps him from actually being straight forward with things. If one person cares then somebody is checking for him and he has plenty of fans. Just because you don’t like someone personally doesn’t give you the right to try to create a narrative that others aren’t checking for him. Also if Kanye is musically irrelevant than about 95% of the rap game are irrelevant which means rap/hiphop isn’t relevant at all and that’s not true. Personally I don’t like Kanye because I think dude is off sometimes, well a lot of times lol but still just because I think that doesn’t mean I’m going to sit here and say he’s not musically relevant.
Still an angry gay fish
Never checked for his “raps” even when he was on top of the world. He made great songs and had good production, and he no longer has either, that’s why we don’t care.
You guys sound young. Music ain’t about who’s irrelevant, it’s about the listener themselves….y’all are the problem…kanye’s music sounds better than 100% of the “hot” folks out here.
Idc about anyone’s raps who is mainstream or has been mainstream. Rel hiphop has been underground for multiple decades now. The last time I remember a great albim becoming mainstream was GKMC. Great album, and disappointments ever since, though TPAB was still great, but a very jazz and experimental album.
Charlamagne the so called God is irrelevant to the breakfast club right now, he just there dnt nobody care Abt his opinion, he barely has a job n that book ain’t selling 😂
Ye has more white fans and overseas fans than black fans these days. Thats where the money at now.
Who’s the guy asking the questions and using Charlamagne to disrespect Ye? Blacks be careful. That guy, my ppl, is a VULTURE. Recognize ppl like him and call him out when he is disrespecting blacks to their face..
Who’s the guy asking the questions and using Charlamagne to disrespect Ye? Blacks be careful. That guy, my ppl, is a VULTURE. Recognize ppl like him and call him out when he is disrespecting blacks to their face..