Ye Isn’t Counting Drake Out After Kendrick Lamar Feud: ‘That Man Might Get 200 Points in One Song’

Ye isn’t counting Drake out after his historic, Grammys-spurring back-and-forth with Kendrick Lamar.

In a clip from a new Justin LaBoy interview played at Ye’s post-Grammys event in Los Angeles Sunday night, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, himself a 24-time Grammy winner, is seen comparing Drake’s current post-beef situation to a character in a superhero franchise who “just goes away for a couple films.” From there, Ye looked back on his The Life of Pablo era, noting that Rihanna’s Drake-featuring “Work” was a source of competitive contention for him at the time.

“I’m like damn, man,” Ye said, as seen in a clip shared by Andrew Barber. “It was really challenging for me to make ‘Father Stretch My Hands’ and different things and then you’ve got ‘Work.’ Like, top five songs ever created in life. We doing the drums and bringing Metro on.”

Asked if Kendrick “killed” Drake via the beef and whether the 6 god is “dead,” Ye agreed, but only in a temporary sense. He also brought in a mention of Tyler, The Creator’s recently released freestyle over the beat for Kendrick’s “Hey Now” track.

“Yeah, for now,” he said. “You can’t ever count out Steph Curry. That man might get 200 points in one song or something. You know what it was is, like, look at the Tyler, the Creator freestyle that he did. ‘That Guy,’ right? Drake added something to the algorithm, to our frequency. He advanced us. Future advanced us. And now, Kendrick has advanced the frequency.”

Ye continued, “It’s like when Twista came out. There was rappers that didn’t learn but then Jay-Z learned that you could do it. If you don’t really learn as just a professional rapper, as a sport, what Kendrick is doing, you might be wiped. You might be wiped out.”

Kendrick pulled off a sweep at Sunday’s Grammys ceremony, taking home all five trophies for which his Mustard-assisted diss track “Not Like Us” was nominated. Ye showed support for Kendrick after the wins, saying in an Instagram update, simply, “Gemini season” with a goat emoji tucked in.

Last year, Ye hopped into the beef in question by sharing a reworked version of “Like That,” a Kendrick-featuring song off Metro Boomin and Future’s We Don’t Trust You album that set everything in motion. In the remix, Ye rapped “I can’t even think of a Drake line” and argued that putting on the music of J. Cole, who was briefly involved in the larger feud before publicly bowing out, would “get the pussy dry.” Ye and Drake’s own past issues, of course, are well known.

Among Kendrick’s wins on Sunday night was Best Rap Song, a category that also saw Ye and Ty Dolla Sign‘s “Carnival” with Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti scoring a nomination. Meanwhile, a widely circulated claim that Ye and Bianca Censori were booted from the Grammys red carpet, as expected, turned out to be false.

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