Ye, whose February has thus far spanned from “I’m a Nazi” to “I’m not a Nazi,” says he’s “not cool with being put in the middle of all of this” amid chatter about Bhad Bhabie’s Alabama Barker diss “Ms. Whitman.”
As previously reported, the track samples Ye and Ty Dolla Sign’s Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti-featuring Vultures 1 hit “Carnival.” After teasing the track on social media for some time, Bhabie shared an official video for the song this week. In it, a person pretending to be a drummer is seen wearing a t-shirt from Famous Stars & Straps, a brand founded by Alabama’s father, Travis Barker, in 1999.
A clip from a purported remix to the track later surfaced, complete with what was claimed to be a verse from the artist formerly known as Kanye West. However, according to remarks later given by Ye in an Instagram Stories update, he was not involved with the track beyond clearing the “Carnival” sample.
“Yo, I’m not in the middle of none of this A.I. beef, people throwing my voice on things, the whole ‘Carnival’ sample,” Ye said Tuesday night, not long after previewing new music with his “Eazy” collaborator The Game. “I just talked to Travis Barker. I would never be in the middle. I don’t even know what’s going on.”
Ye went on to speak more generally about his sample clearance process, suggesting he cleared this particular request without knowing the full context.
“I just got sent a song and asked if I could clear the sample,” he said. “Only reason why I clear anything is because so many people try to stop me, they stop clearances. Everything has been very difficult for me so anybody asks me for something, I always clear it. But I’m not cool with being put in the middle of all of this at all. So any verse that be going viral using my voice and all that, it’s like, I didn’t do it.”
Bama later shared Ye’s remarks to her own IG Stories. See them in full below.
The mention of A.I. is interesting, as Ye himself has received pushback from many fans regarding his own use of such tech in his music. In a recent interview with Justin Laboy, Ye likened A.I. to Auto-Tune, arguing that the two are “in the same family.” His comments at the time were largely focused on how A.I. has eased the process of sampling, i.e. through stem extraction.
As fans know, Ye and Travis Barker, husband to Kourtney Kardashian, have worked together in the past. The two appeared on the posthumous XXXTentacion single “One Minute” back in 2018.
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