15 Pics Of The Ups And Downs In Their Relationship
The on and off once more relationship between Kanye West and Drake is most likely the maximum vital relationship in trendy hip hop. It is certainly no less than one of the maximum crucial relationships in hip hop historical past. Beyond just supplying the global to a cavalcade of memorable songs between the two, their relationship has catered to a number of groundbreaking and unforgettable moments in song history. Both males are integral to each other's careers to the level that it's arduous to consider one without the other, or rather how one could be as a hit with out the different's life.
The two had been skilled companions and confiding pals for so long as they have been enemies. Their link to each other has given start to a aggressive rivalry of types that, extra incessantly than no longer, were given just a little personal and went too a long way. Here are some ups, downs, highs, and lows from their relationship as documented in photos.
15 High: First Meeting
Before his own debut studio album released, Drake met his long time idol Kanye West on one fateful night time in Hawaii in 2009, so the rapper informed MTV News. Drake frequently admits to being influenced through West and his track, so this used to be a dream come true. Although they met in short, they pontificated their desires to make track together, in order that they produced "Digital Girl" and "Forever" in combination later that 12 months.
14 High: When Ye Directed Drake's Music Video
Their sequence of collaborations did not start or end with stepping in the booth in combination. Their first true blue collab didn't even have Kanye on the vocals. Instead, Kanye directed a song video for "Best I Ever Had," a spoil hit from Drake's mixtape, So Far Gone, which helped put him on the map.
13 High: Ye Producing Drake's First Mega Hit
Kanye West's efforts to make Drake a brand new star persisted - albeit unintentionally - as West wrote and produced Drake's biggest hit tune so far at the time: "Find Your Love." West at first made the beat for Rihanna, but Drake used his connections along with his mentor, No I.D., to convince West to give him the music instead. It labored out.
12 Low: Kanye Cuts Drake From His Own Song
For the whole thing Kanye did for Drake behind the scenes, it is nearly sudden to think their subsequent collab - "All of the Lights," which also featured Kid Cudi and Rihanna - didn't relatively work out. After the observe leaked previous to its November 2010 free up, West re-released the song with Drake's verse got rid of from the reputable model. We don't assume Drake ever were given over it.
11 Low: Drake Shades Kanye And Jay-Z
Months earlier than Kanye West and Jay-Z released their a lot anticipated collab album, Watch the Throne, Drake threw some colour in an interview with Tim Westwood where he mentioned, “I heard two other guys are popping out with an album, too…I don’t know where they got that concept from.” He endured to throw color on the song "I'm On One," where he alluded to "taking" a throne.
10 High: They Squash Beef At OVO Fest ... For Now
The Tim Westwood interview alluded to pork between Kanye West and Drake and as it turns out, there used to be, albeit minor beef. Drake later admitted in an interview with Billboard in 2013 that him and Ye hadn't spoken in just about two years, but had been able to repair their relationship with Drake let Ye be a wonder performer at OVO Fest 2013.
9 Low: Beef Picks Up When Drake Drops "Summer Sixteen"
Though the red meat itself simmered, there was still a petty aggressive competition. In 2016, Drake dropped "Summer Sixteen," where he bragged about having a larger pool than Kanye. "And look, man, Ye's pool is nice, mine is just bigger is what I'm saying," he elaborated. To which Ye himself retorted "I have two pools" in an interview with Big Boy's Neighborhood radio show.
8 High: Drake Writes Songs For Kanye's Life Of Pablo
Seems this contention didn't escalate any further than petty jabs and thankfully, no feelings had been harm sufficient to sever their skilled relationship. Hence why Drake managed to chip in at the back of the scenes for Kanye (the tables turning from years prior) to write down three songs on Ye's Life of Pablo album.
7 Low: Kanye Disses Drake Onstage
In one of the maximum extraordinary moments from Kanye West's career, he stopped his November 19th, 2016 Sacramento show mid-concert to rant about DJ Khaled and Drake orchestrating to get their "For Free" record played over and over on the radio. He also begged Jay-Z and Mark Zuckerberg to name him in the identical useless.
6 High: They Drop "Glow," First Duo Song
While the Sacramento incident may have put a strain in the Drake/Kanye relationship, it was once now not an everlasting one as a year later, they launched "Glow" for Drake's More Life album. This marked the first and - so far no less than - the best time that Drake and Kanye performed as a duo in combination on a track with no person else on the report.
5 High: Drake Helps Kanye Write Ye Album
Their relationship remained friendly bleeding into the yr 2018 when Drake was once one of many artists who flew all the method right down to Kanye's studio in Wyoming to record his then-latest slightly self-titled album: Ye. Not only did he write the track "Yikes" for the album, but recorded a verse that by no means made the final cut.
4 Low: Kanye Helps Pusha T Diss Drake
When Drake left Wyoming, Pusha T flew in so Kanye may produce in the similar studio his Daytona album, where Pusha T dissed Drake on the report "Infrared." While Drake and Pusha T's again and forth disses have change into the stuff of legends, Drake makes it transparent in these songs he feels more betrayed that his pal, Kanye, produced diss records directed at him.
3 High: Kanye Extends Olive Branch
(*15*)As Drake and Pusha T endured their beef, hip hop tycoon J. Prince published to Ebro in the Morning that Kanye referred to as him for my part to squash the pork between them. Kanye then tweeted on June third that “I’ve by no means been about pork. I’m about love. [L]ines had been crossed and it’s now not excellent for any individual so that is lifeless now.” This was once his strategy to mend fences.
2 Low: Kanye Hears "Sicko Mode," Reneges Olive Branch
Well, Drake did not get the peace memo. Regardless of what Kanye West said, Drake later released "Sicko Mode," with Travis Scott the place he sent several verbal jabs at Kanye West. When West in spite of everything heard the song, he was once no longer satisfied about what he heard and let or not it's recognized in a now-infamous tweet rant.
1 High: Kanye Publicly Forgives Drake
While the rant was sufficient to make it appear to be the Drake/Kanye relationship used to be useless as a doorknob, but Ye has since apologized to Drake publicly. In reality, he was once compelled to take action because of his religion. “You cannot be in carrier to God and be mad at your brother next door,” he advised Zane Lowe in a late 2019 interview. While Drake has but to publicly settle for the apology, Kanye left his phone number on Drake's porch in case he ever wanted to name.
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