André 3000 almost didn’t appear on Ye’s “Life of the Party” because of a dispute that the two artists were having about how the song should be released.
André recently appeared on The New York Times’ Popcast and spoke about how the song came together. He revealed that Ye asked him to listen to his Donda album and give notes, then offered him the chance to get on any song that he’d like.
Though he initially didn’t find a track he wanted to get on, he heard a second set of songs for another project, and “Life of the Party” was one of them.
“I was speaking as if I’m speaking to his mom to tell a message to my mom,” André said of the song’s subject matter. “That song opened me up to say things that I couldn’t have said without Kanye.”
André then spoke with Popcast hosts Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden about how the song was released on Drake’s Sound 42 SiriusXM radio station. André admitted that he didn’t know how it happened but then suggested that he was thankful because of a dispute that he and Ye were having about the song itself.
“Ye was at a point where he didn’t want any curse words on the album and I said, ‘Yeah I’m cool with it.’ I’m totally fine with no curse words. But take me off the song because I’d written it a certain way,” André said. “I was cool with beeped versions but you have to put the dirty version of it out too.
“He told me, ‘I told my daughter that I would not have any curse words on the album,’ I said, ‘Yeah man, the kids for sure. So just take me off,’” André continued.
The “Ms. Jackson” rapper also clarified whether he knew about Ye dissing Drake on the song before it came out.
“A lot of people think that Kanye took the song and put the diss part out without me knowing about it,” he said. “I heard the diss part. Me and Kanye had a convo about it.
“I had my feelings about it,” he continued. “I was like, man, do you really want to do this on this type of song? It’s like going and shooting up your mom’s funeral.”
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