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Levitating to Kanye West’s Donda

Last night in Atlanta, Kanye West performed his highly anticipated upcoming album, Donda, for the second time. The scene in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which has become Kanye’s new home, was livestreamed on Apple Music, along with every moment of preparation. The night opened with a Sunday Service-esque choir, and Kanye singing, “It’s the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.”

He’s the kind of artist with no separation between his own identity and work, so there was a thread of Kanye in every little moment — the constant wardrobe changes, the street-cast performers’ hype one moment, the next weeping, barefoot, crawling to what seemed like a church altar. Kanye stood solitary in the center, but was surrounded by a circle for most of the performance. All involved were covered from head-to-toe in looks symbolizing the protection and “covering” of his mother, wearing choir robes, Donda vests with full-face-covering masks, and jackets emblazoned on the back with a cross in the center of the Star of David. All the while, lyrics repeated Donda West’s name throughout the night, to invoke a kind of perseverance that she brought to Kanye, one that is forever part of him.

Every moment and lyric referenced the act of elevating and going higher. Donda West, who tragically passed in 2007, has continuously been an essential source of inspiration and a guiding light for him, a fact brought to life in the theatrical performance at the show’s end, as he was raised into the air, lying down on trapeze wires, almost as if he was ascending into heaven with spotlights around him.

Earlier in the week, Kanye announced that his close friend and Balenciaga artistic director, Demna Gvasalia , would be part of the project, and he wore a head-to-toe black look that included a spiked jacket from Balenciaga’s fall/winter 2020 collection. And with his continued partnership with Gap and commitment to make essentials feel more intentional, it seems as if West is making his dreams of becoming “ the next Steve Jobs” of fashion and culture a reality.

Guests like Chance the Rapper, Migos, Rick Ross, and a few Real Housewives of Atlanta were present, as well as Kim Kardashian, while Kanye played a new version of a song titled “Love Unconditionally” that opened with Donda saying the words, “No matter what, you never abandon your family,” as he repeatedly rapped: “I’m losing my family.” In this performance, though, he added a few lines to the song, saying, “Time and space is a luxury, but you came here to show that you’re still in love with me.”

Only Kanye could have people come and listen to — and be fully engaged with — an album, without actually dropping an album. Still, at the end of the night, there was at least a preorder for the infamous $200 red puffer jacket from Yeezy Gap online to hold people over.

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The Evolution of Kanye West's Tours

With 'Saint Pablo' around the corner, let's remember the Kanye West tours that brought us here.

By Jessy Edwards

Looking back to Kanye West’s very first nationwide tour, it’s incredible to see how much has changed.

It was 2004, and back then a good hip-hop show meant seeing your favorite artist perform their set without any major sound difficulties. The big-budget spectacles West pioneered existed only in dreams. In the years that followed, his live performance evolved from performing in front of a backdrop of Chicago’s skyline to ascending a literal mountain constructed on stage.

Over five headline tours and multiple spot performances, Kanye has transformed the expectations for a hip-hop. After the Yeezus tour of 2013, the New York Post raved that the show was more than just a concert, saying, “It’s an extravaganza of music and theater... an unmissable spectacle.”

Kanye has developed the live performance to be immersive and experiential, pairing with fashion designers, artists, and engineers to create shows that redefine the concert experience—even architecture magazines have marveled at Kanye's work.

So as Ye prepares for the Saint Pablo Tour —his first in three years—we look back at the tours that came before: the looks, the designers, the opening acts, the artistry, and the drama.

Related: Kanye West By The Numbers

2. The College Dropout Tour

Length: March 16—May 5, 2004

Set designer: Unknown

Supporting acts: Dilated Peoples, John Legend, GLC

Baggy jeans, striped polos and a college vibe were the defining elements of Kanye West’s very first headline tour, in 2004.

Well before West was sending his own models down the runway of New York Fashion week, he and his crew were rocking matching Ralph Lauren polos emblazoned with the mascot of his debut album and tour—the College Dropout bear.

The tour spanned 34 dates, from March to May that year, and a 26-year-old West leaned in to the collegiate theme. Not only did it kick off at Virginia Tech, it hit a number of college towns across the states—from Pace University in New York to George Washington University in DC, ending with three shows at House of Blues in West’s hometown, Chicago.

The tour started just months after the official release of West’s first album, which shot to #2 and sold almost 500,000 copies in its first week, and was opened by Dilated Peoples, featured John Legend and GLC, and had A-Trak as tour DJ.

A-Trak’s video from the tour describes the vibe: “There were lots of chicken wings, lots of shoes and lots of laughter,” he says. The footage, from more than a decade ago, shows how excited the artists were to fly on a G4 private jet to some of the locations.

Onstage, Kanye paced in front of seven slim LED-screens, and some footage has the Chicago cityscape as his background. While the tour is lo-fi compared to his modern-day setups, the venues were packed with people, and when West asked his crowd to "scream so loud when the music come on you can’t even hear it," they did just that.

English musician Tom Wiseman, from hip hop group Community League , says one of his “greatest show experiences” came from seeing the tour stop in the U.K.

“When The College Dropout tour came to town for one night only back in 2004, it was a magical affair that went down as one of the best in the year that was soundtracked by the irrepressible Mr. West,” he recalls. "When Kanye launched into 'Slow Jamz' only to have the entire crowd sing the words back to him—his mic held loosely at his side, the expression of wonder on his face, it was priceless.”

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4. the touch the sky tour.

Length: October 12—December 11, 2005

Set designer: Esmeralda Devlin

Opening acts: Fantasia and Keyshia Cole

Ye’s second tour started off with a few hiccups . He was making changes right down to the last minute.

As the story goes, West scrapped the Touch the Sky Tour’s entire lighting plan just two weeks before the opening show in Miami. According to Mark Beaumont’s book Kanye West: God and Monster , the tour was completely redone by new tour designer Es Devlin just a fortnight before opening night, and soon after Kanye was heard yelling "I’m not excited about going on tour! All y’all have is moving lights!" to his former designer.

And then, just days before Ye was meant to start touring, opening act Common announced he couldn’t make it—he’d just landed an acting role. This left West with Fantasia and Keyshia Cole for his opening acts.

In the end, the stage show was accompanied by a glamorous six-piece string section and featured live video of the show projected behind the stage. West kneeled by a hospital bed to sing “Roses"—about his grandmother’s illness—and later collapsed in front of a screen scrolling negative reviews behind him. The star changed four times and wore designer blazers, pants, and dark designer sunglasses.

Chicago fan and music writer Tre G describes the show he saw at the Breslin Center in Michigan as the “greatest thing [he] had ever seen at the time.” Not only was it the first concert he had ever attended, Tre still remembers being blown away by the lighting and visuals. “You could tell Kanye was all about production, even in his early years,” he says. “I remember vividly one part of the show, Kanye displayed on the screen what critics and magazines were saying about him at the time.”

And the performance itself didn’t disappoint.

“I went HAM when he performed 'Get 'Em High.' It's still one my favorites,” he says.

Despite calling him an “only average rapper,” a Rolling Stone reviewer admitted that, unlike many other hip-hop hits, some of West’s songs were better live. Mark Beaumont described the Touch the Sky tour as Kanye “stepping out onto the tour big leagues.” He played the Thompson-Bowling Arena in Knoxville, the Mizzou Arena in Columbia, and two nights at the theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Speaking to an MTV reporter on opening night about his earlier setbacks , West was typically brash.

“F— that!" West said backstage shortly before showtime. “We not gonna wait for 10 shows from now, we gonna touch the sky tonight.”

And so it was.

6. The Glow in the Dark Tour

Length: April 16, 2008—December 7, 2008

Opening acts: N.E.R.D., Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna

Kanye’s first world tour also included his first truly extraordinary stage.

The Glow In The Dark Tour crammed in more than 50 arena and festival shows in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. before heading to Mexico and then across the Pacific, via South America, to the Far East and Europe.

The concept pitted Kanye as a the pilot of a spaceship hitting a meteor storm, landing on a desolate planet of dry ice, and trying to find his way home through tracks from The College Dropout , Late Registration , Graduation , 808s and Heartbreak .

With design again done by Es Devlin, in collaboration with Martin Phillips and John McGuire, the stage was transformed into a barren series of landscapes—one resembling a giant moon—and fantastical glow-in-the-dark features: a giant, glowing-eyed monster and a robot moved within the haze, women shimmered in gold paint for the track "Gold Digger," and stunning multi-colored light sequences lit up the often smoke-filled stage.

Ye himself wore sci-fi themed threads, glow-in-the-dark accessories, his signature stunna shades, and gloves.

The performance was a visual feast, “an attempt to push hip-hop into the arena rock league,” Mark Beaumont argued in his book Kanye West: God and Monster . It was even immortalized in the book of photography Glow in the Dark by Nabil Elderkin.

But again, the show was not without its hiccups. In Sacramento, Ye accidentally called the city Seattle, before quickly apologizing. At Bonnaroo, fans chanted “Kanye sucks” after a change in scheduling had West come on stage at 4:25 A.M. —almost two hours after he was meant to start.

Plus, Ye self-funded the tour after the original sponsor, Best Buy, pulled out, according to sources . But his hard work paid off, and the tour ended up a success, grossing $300 million.

8. The Fame Kills Tour

Length: N/A

Set designer: N/A

Opening acts: N/A

In 2009, Lady Gaga and Kanye West announced their joint Fame Kills tour, which was due to kick off in Phoenix in November and keep the stars touring through to the new year.

The tour sounded like it was all set, with Gaga going on air to describe the creative process for the tour: how she and Kanye had designed a stage that would traverse the entire arena.

She explained that Kanye would represent "the fame," and she would represent "home and humble beginnings," and the two artists would be aiming to reach each other from either ends of the stage.

In early October, however, the show was cancelled , with little reason given. Some speculated that it was related to negative publicity surrounding West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech that month, and it would two more years before Kanye announced another tour.

9. The Watch the Throne Tour

Length: October 29, 2011—June 22, 2012 Set designers: Esmeralda Devlin, Kanye West, DONDA, Bruce Rodgers, Nick Whitehouse, John McGuire, Geodezik Opening acts: None

“Attenborough BBC wildlife content and lasers” was the brief given to stage designer Es Devlin by Kanye for his tour with Jay Z in 2011.

The result: the incredible Watch the Throne tour featured the two performers perched on massive video cubes showing sharks, Rottweilers, crows, and tigers in a sea of darkness punctuated only by cellphone lights and piercing lasers.

As the pair played “Otis,” a giant American flag lit up the backdrop.

Devlin used hundreds of laser beams to create a myriad of different frames to this alternate world of geometric shapes, cascading light, wild animals, and its stars: Kanye West and Jay Z. The two lived up to the hype, and then some. Their habit of playing the smash hit "N****s in Paris" eight, nine, 10, or 12 times in a row quickly become the stuff of legend.

Partnering with Givenchy, for the most part, Yeezy dressed in slick black: t-shirts, leather pants and a big gold chain.

The tour grossed $47 million in 2012, in addition to the $48 million it earned in 2011, Bloomberg reported , and in the summer of 2012, Kanye West launched his own design company , DONDA, focused on “content, product, and experience.”

11. The Yeezus Tour

Length: October 19, 2013—December 23, 2013

Set designer: DONDA and Esmeralda Devlin

Opening acts: Kendrick Lamar, A Tribe Called Quest, Travi$ Scott, and Pusha T

Kanye’s last tour was his most ambitious and daring yet.

Featuring a man-made mountain, diamond encrusted masks, and a catwalk, it was this tour that had the New York Post reviewer praising “an extravaganza of music and theater that gives the world windows into [West’s] erratic persona.”

This visual feast was created through collaboration between set designer Es Devlin, West’s design company DONDA, fashion house Maison Margiela, artist Vanessa Beecroft, and more. This was the tour burned into memory through those full-face masks. This was the tour where Ye staged the reincarnation of Jesus and delivered sermons on the state of the world.

Super-fan Matt Nein, 20, saw the show three times as it toured the States: once in Philly, once at Penn State, and once in Atlantic City, calling it “the pinnacle of rap shows.”

“Kanye and his crew did things that pushed the envelope artistically and haven't been done before,” he explains, pointing out that as a rap fan, many shows he’s seen have turned on an artist rapping over their own voice, with a posse standing behind them onstage.

“Whether it was using an Xbox to track Kanye's movements during 'Black Skinhead' or making it snow in the arena during 'Coldest Winter,' Kanye made sure to do things that people wouldn't expect.”

The Yeezus stage set and concept—featuring a giant mountain that occasionally turned into a volcano—was described by reviewers as “half biblical allegory and half motivational seminar”.

It kicked off on Oct. 19 in Seattle, and Kanye opened with “On Sight” in a custom-made Margiela mask that obscured his whole face. West worked closely with Maison Margiela to curate the show, and his wardrobe for the Tour was composed of 10 couture pieces, 20 ready-to-wear pieces, and an exclusive pair of sneakers, as well as the famous masks.

Onstage, Devlin had constructed a mountain, which was sometimes wreathed in flames, sometimes covered with women in long white dresses. At times it would split in two halves, or become a volcano. There was an iceberg, 12 nude-nylon clad dancers, and a catwalk, alluding back to the fashion show created with Margiela.

The speeches also became a key part of the Yeezus show. “Through the Yeezus tour the sermons came thick, fast, and very very long,” Mark Beaumont writes .

But the show wasn’t bulletproof. The tour was postponed for 18 days when one of the trucks holding part of the 60-foot LED screen was in a car crash, and the equipment damaged beyond repair. Several shows were postponed or cancelled while the gear was rebuilt.

But as always, the show went on, with Rolling Stone calling it “truly electrifying.”

13. The Saint Pablo Tour

Length: August 25—November 1

Set designer: DONDA SURROUND

Opening acts: TBD

Last month, West announced The Saint Pablo Tour , his first North American tour in three years.

While very few clues to what fans can expect have been announced yet, more collaboration with visual artists, à la West’s "Famous" video, could be forthcoming.

The tour will visit nearly 40 cities across the U.S. and Canada—mainly playing arenas—including dates in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Detroit, Washington DC, Miami, and more.

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The Most Memorable Moments of Kanye West and Drake’s Reunion Concert

T he feud is over. Last night, two titans of pop music, Kanye West and Drake, publicly settled their longstanding differences in a joint concert at the L.A. Coliseum. In November, the music mogul J Prince helped broker a peace between them centered upon their mutual interest in the emancipation of Larry Hoover , a long-incarcerated Chicago gang leader. On Thursday, over two hours, the pair traded hits, paid each other compliments and talked about their religious faith. Here are the main takeaways from the show.

The concert was a display of friendly competition, emphasis on friendly

The bad blood between the pair runs deep: lyrical shots have been fired back and forth between their respective crews—West’s G.O.O.D. Music and Drake’s Young Money—for years. The rift hit its apex in 2018, when West’s close ally Pusha T traded vicious diss tracks with Drake, with the former publicly revealing that Drake had a son in “The Story of Adidon.” Drake would accuse West of spilling that personal detail to Pusha T, and proceeded to subtly diss West on the number one Travis Scott hit “SICKO MODE.” This year, Drake and West traded barbs in the press, on social media and in songs, with Drake going so far as to leak a song from Donda that featured André 3000.

But the pair agreed to reconcile last month, in part to raise awareness for prison reform activism. On Thursday, they appeared to be relieved, if not happy, to appear on stage together once again. They entered the stadium striding down the stairs shoulder to shoulder; when they got up onto the stage—a giant, barren white landscape that looked either like a hockey rink or a UFO—they hugged and exchanged heartfelt handshakes. They performed each other’s songs enthusiastically: West sang Drake’s 2010 hit “Find Your Love” (although he struggled to stay on pitch), while Drake returned the favor with a soulful version of “24.” “L.A.’s not finished, Ye’s not finished, Drake’s not finished,” he crooned. Later, West remarked on their collective accomplishments: “It’s like a hundred million hits between the both of us…we’d be out here for three days,” he said.

Drake covering Kanye West’s “24” #KanyeDrakeLive #FreeLarryHoover https://t.co/RTAn5DaWQT — XXL Magazine (@XXL) December 10, 2021

Kanye claimed the past, while Drake claimed the present

In this Verzuz era , fans have been clamoring on social media for a musical battle between the pair. On the Drink Champs podcast last month, West stoked the flames by saying that if he were to conduct a face-off with Drake, “I’m winning every situation.”

While the concert wasn’t officially a Verzuz battle, the subtext loomed over the night, and it was clear that each of them took the assignment very seriously. West came out swinging by energetically steamrolling through his biggest hits in semi-chronological order: “Jesus Walks,” “All Falls Down,” “Gold Digger,” “Stronger,” “All of the Lights.” It was a clear reminder that he’s ruled the past two decades of hip-hop and pop; that his body of work is nearly unparalleled. Drake acknowledged as much onstage, calling it a “dream… to be on stage with one of my idols while he’s running through one of the best catalogs in music, period.”

Drake and Kanye walking off stage last night pic.twitter.com/KT1bzuo2jJ — Drake Fan Page (@DrakeDirect_) December 10, 2021

But rather than trying to match West hit for hit, Drake took a very different tack: by using the concert as a showcase for his new album, Certified Lover Boy. “I came to do some new sh-t for you all,” he said, and fans at the stadium responded enthusiastically, crying out in excitement from the very first synth notes of “Girls Want Girls” (167 million Spotify streams) and screaming every word to “Way 2 Sexy” (228 million streams). While West’s throwback songs came from 2004, the earliest songs Drake performed during his set were from 2018 (“God’s Plan”). It was a clever tactical juke: a reminder that while West might have a deeper catalog, Drake currently remains one of the biggest, if not the biggest, pop star in the world today.

West made a direct plea to Kim Kardashian

For the last decade, one of the marquee moments at any Kanye West show is the outro of his 2010 opus “Runaway.” He uses the tortured song as a confessional, an opportunity to monologue his darkest or most controversial thoughts . While he typically delivers these rants in autotune, West instead stripped back the outro to just piano and voice, singing over and over: “When you run away, I need you to run right back to me.” And at the end, he left no ambiguity about who he was singing the song to: “Run right back to me/ More specifically, Kimberly.”

RUNAWAY BY KANYE WEST, MIKE DEAN VERSION 🐐🐐 #FREELarryHover pic.twitter.com/UsmbDIcE9o — 𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘌 ★ (@Laflame_World) December 10, 2021

Later in the show, West delivered a Kim Suite of sorts, first singing “Bound 2”—a 2013 love song detailing the early days of their relationship—before cutting himself off and launching into “Come To Life,” his heartbreaking recounting from this year that details the crumbling of their relationship. After singing the line “You know exactly where to find me,” he covered his face with his hands seemingly in anguish, and cameramen walked toward him slowly from all sides, as if personifying the oppressive glare of the spotlight. It was an extremely vulnerable moment in a night mostly characterized by bombast.

West censored a cringey lyric

For the concert’s last song, the pair reunited one final time to perform their 2009 collaboration “Forever”; it marked their origin stories and how far each has come. But the song’s performance was notable for another reason: rather than deliver an off-color lyric about statutory rape, West instead rapped, “nope, nope, nope,” and laughed uncomfortably.

Kanye skipping over the statutory line with “no no nope” and laughing sent me 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/GI74TRCchx — Jeff Wong (@jwongnyy) December 10, 2021

Mike Dean was the real MVP

The producer Mike Dean has long been West’s right-hand man, contributing in some way to nearly all of West’s studio albums. In more recent years, he’s joined West on tour to play synthesizer, piano and guitar. On Thursday, he never appeared visually, but dominated the night sonically by adding unpredictable instrumental jolts to West’s pristine production. He added a strobe-y synthesizer to “Touch The Sky” and menacing feedback on “Black Skinhead.” He absolutely shredded the riff to “I Wonder” on guitar, and his luscious piano noodling on “Runaway” was the ideal backdrop for West’s sermonizing to Kardashian. While Drake and West themselves more or less performed each other to a draw, it was Dean’s vital musicianship that pushed West’s set over the top.

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The Evolution of Kanye West’s Tours

By Jessy Edwards

Looking back to Kanye West’s very first nationwide tour, it’s incredible to see how much has changed.

So as Ye prepares for the Saint Pablo Tour —his first in three years—we look back at the tours that came before: the looks, the designers, the opening acts, the artistry, and the drama.

Related: Kanye West By The Numbers

The College Dropout Tour

Length: March 16—May 5, 2004 Set designer: Unknown Supporting acts: Dilated Peoples, John Legend, GLC

Baggy jeans, striped polos and a college vibe were the defining elements of Kanye West’s very first headline tour, in 2004.

Onstage, Kanye paced in front of seven slim LED-screens, and some footage has the Chicago cityscape as his background. While the tour is lo-fi compared to his modern-day setups, the venues were packed with people, and when West asked his crowd to “scream so loud when the music come on you can’t even hear it,” they did just that.

English musician Tom Wiseman, from hip hop group Community League , says one of his “greatest show experiences” came from seeing the tour stop in the U.K.

“When The College Dropout tour came to town for one night only back in 2004, it was a magical affair that went down as one of the best in the year that was soundtracked by the irrepressible Mr. West,” he recalls. “When Kanye launched into ‘Slow Jamz’ only to have the entire crowd sing the words back to him—his mic held loosely at his side, the expression of wonder on his face, it was priceless.”

The Touch The Sky Tour

Screenshot via YouTube

Length: October 12—December 11, 2005 Set designer: Esmeralda Devlin Opening acts: Fantasia and Keyshia Cole

Ye’s second tour started off with a few hiccups . He was making changes right down to the last minute.

As the story goes, West scrapped the Touch the Sky Tour’s entire lighting plan just two weeks before the opening show in Miami. According to Mark Beaumont’s book Kanye West: God and Monster , the tour was completely redone by new tour designer Es Devlin just a fortnight before opening night, and soon after Kanye was heard yelling “I’m not excited about going on tour! All y’all have is moving lights!” to his former designer.

In the end, the stage show was accompanied by a glamorous six-piece string section and featured live video of the show projected behind the stage. West kneeled by a hospital bed to sing “Roses”—about his grandmother’s illness—and later collapsed in front of a screen scrolling negative reviews behind him. The star changed four times and wore designer blazers, pants, and dark designer sunglasses.

And the performance itself didn’t disappoint.

“I went HAM when he performed ‘Get ‘Em High.’ It’s still one my favorites,” he says.

Speaking to an MTV reporter on opening night about his earlier setbacks , West was typically brash.

“F— that!” West said backstage shortly before showtime. “We not gonna wait for 10 shows from now, we gonna touch the sky tonight.”

And so it was.

The Glow in the Dark Tour

Length: April 16, 2008—December 7, 2008 Set designer: Esmeralda Devlin Opening acts: N.E.R.D., Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna

Kanye’s first world tour also included his first truly extraordinary stage.

With design again done by Es Devlin, in collaboration with Martin Phillips and John McGuire, the stage was transformed into a barren series of landscapes—one resembling a giant moon—and fantastical glow-in-the-dark features: a giant, glowing-eyed monster and a robot moved within the haze, women shimmered in gold paint for the track “Gold Digger,” and stunning multi-colored light sequences lit up the often smoke-filled stage.

Ye himself wore sci-fi themed threads, glow-in-the-dark accessories, his signature stunna shades, and gloves.

Plus, Ye self-funded the tour after the original sponsor, Best Buy, pulled out, according to sources . But his hard work paid off, and the tour ended up a success, grossing $300 million.

The Fame Kills Tour

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In 2009, Lady Gaga and Kanye West announced their joint Fame Kills tour, which was due to kick off in Phoenix in November and keep the stars touring through to the new year.

The tour sounded like it was all set, with Gaga going on air to describe the creative process for the tour: how she and Kanye had designed a stage that would traverse the entire arena.

She explained that Kanye would represent “the fame,” and she would represent “home and humble beginnings,” and the two artists would be aiming to reach each other from either ends of the stage.

The Watch the Throne Tour

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Length: October 29, 2011—June 22, 2012 Set designers: Esmeralda Devlin, Kanye West, DONDA, Bruce Rodgers, Nick Whitehouse, John McGuire, Geodezik Opening acts: None

“Attenborough BBC wildlife content and lasers” was the brief given to stage designer Es Devlin by Kanye for his tour with Jay Z in 2011.

As the pair played “Otis,” a giant American flag lit up the backdrop.

Devlin used hundreds of laser beams to create a myriad of different frames to this alternate world of geometric shapes, cascading light, wild animals, and its stars: Kanye West and Jay Z. The two lived up to the hype, and then some. Their habit of playing the smash hit “N****s in Paris” eight, nine, 10, or 12 times in a row quickly become the stuff of legend.

Partnering with Givenchy, for the most part, Yeezy dressed in slick black: t-shirts, leather pants and a big gold chain.

The Yeezus Tour

Length: October 19, 2013—December 23, 2013 Set designer: DONDA and Esmeralda Devlin Opening acts: Kendrick Lamar, A Tribe Called Quest, Travi$ Scott, and Pusha T

Kanye’s last tour was his most ambitious and daring yet.

Super-fan Matt Nein, 20, saw the show three times as it toured the States: once in Philly, once at Penn State, and once in Atlantic City, calling it “the pinnacle of rap shows.”

“Kanye and his crew did things that pushed the envelope artistically and haven’t been done before,” he explains, pointing out that as a rap fan, many shows he’s seen have turned on an artist rapping over their own voice, with a posse standing behind them onstage.

“Whether it was using an Xbox to track Kanye’s movements during ‘Black Skinhead’ or making it snow in the arena during ‘Coldest Winter,’ Kanye made sure to do things that people wouldn’t expect.”

The Yeezus stage set and concept—featuring a giant mountain that occasionally turned into a volcano—was described by reviewers as “half biblical allegory and half motivational seminar”.

The speeches also became a key part of the Yeezus show. “Through the Yeezus tour the sermons came thick, fast, and very very long,” Mark Beaumont writes .

But as always, the show went on, with Rolling Stone calling it “truly electrifying.”

The Saint Pablo Tour

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Length: August 25—November 1 Set designer: DONDA SURROUND Opening acts: TBD

Last month, West announced The Saint Pablo Tour , his first North American tour in three years.

While very few clues to what fans can expect have been announced yet, more collaboration with visual artists, à la West’s “Famous” video, could be forthcoming.

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Kanye’s ‘DONDA’ Event Breaks Record for Highest-Grossing U.S. Tour Solely Off of Its Merch Sales

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Kanye West has broken the record for the highest-grossing U.S. tour based on DONDA in-person merchandise sales alone, according to Billboard , which began tracking touring data in 1990.

Clocking in $7 million USD in revenue just from its merchandise, the second DONDA listening event on August 5 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium beat out previous record holder Taylor Swift, who grossed a little under $7 million USD per show for 2018’s Reputation Stadium Tour.

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Kanye West is a complete visionary who has shifted the course of pop culture time and time again, first as a producer and then as a rapper and fashion mogul.

Kanye was born in a middle class household in Chicago and was a creative from an early age, often writing poetry and becoming part of the city’s hip hop scene at a young age. He briefly attended college but dropped out when it became detrimental to the creation of his music.

He began producing beats for local artists, developing a signature style that utilized sped-up soul samples and before long he received his first big break when he became an in-house producer for Roc A Fella Records and was responsible for the now classic Jay Z Album ‘The Blueprint’.

Despite his production success, Kanye had maintained a desire to make it as a rapper but due to his unconventional style and background had struggled to secure a deal. Dame Dash reluctantly signed Kanye to Roc A Fella however Kanye was involved in a car accident which he was lucky to survive. With his jaw still wired shut, Kanye channeled his emotions into ‘through The Wire’, a single which would appear on his debut album ‘The College Dropout’ in 2004. The album is considered one of the most important Hip Hop debuts and had a lasting effect on the genre.

With each subsequent album Kanye changed up his sound and broken new ground. On 2008’s ‘808 and Hearrtbreaks’ for example, he embraced auto-tune singing and, although many were unsure at the time, it influenced the future sound of Hip Hop and Rnb (laying the framework for the likes of Drake to become huge stars). In 2013 he stunned fans again with the jarring ‘Yeezus’, which, with its industrial minimalism, shocked the genre to its core and won praise from critics in the process.

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I gotta give it to Yeezus. He's still got the juice and for him to pack the 'Bowl' while performing a seven year old album is a testament to that fact. Show started an hour late and I had the feeling there would be some tech glitches, but you definitely couldn't hate on the effort. There was a small orchestra section stage right and on stage left what appeared to be a few DJ's and dudes on drum machines. The center of the stage featured 3 grand white staircases that were reconfigured between songs. There were fireworks at times which didn't quite fit the tone of the album, but who doesn't like fireworks. It was a party atmosphere and I felt a real connection with other fans simply based on the fact that WE LOVE THIS FUCKING ALBUM. We sang, we yelled, we danced, we laughed, and we reminisced about a Kanye that took us back to bring us forward.

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Staircases rotate to reveal 60 or so black men in rags and covered in dust. Very striking visual that reminded me of a slave ship. He used what I'll call "human props" throughout the show, but I felt like this moment resonated most.

Jeezy came out for Amazing, but the tech was ALL CHEWED UP. Sound was cutting in and out, poor lighting, pianist was even confused at one point.

At one point Kanye states that this performance is actually more of a dress rehearsal. I figured as much and even debated going to the Saturday show, but there was something about the rawness of an opening night that I wanted to be part of. I'm sure Saturday's show will be way more on point.

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I have never been a person who could pinpoint a moment in which divine providence had played some role in my life. That is, until I saw Kanye.

Watching Kanye West perform is a wholly religious experience. Someone you don't know and can barely see is instructing you to complete strange actions which seem nonsensical, like throwing your hands in there or singing lyrics or pointing your middle finger to the sky. Yet, you follow along. You are surrounded by thousands of people who share similar beliefs and interests as you. Everything is ridiculous expensive and you must pay your way in.

Kanye comes out pretty much an hour late, just because he can. When he finally emerges, it is on a platform suspended in the air. The platform rocks to and fro during the concert, bouncing right above the general admissions mosh pit. It is those in the mosh pit who are the most blessed. They seem positively energized by Kanye, dancing and thrashing for two hours straight.

When Kanye finishes his act, he performs "Ultralight Beam". Towards the end of the show, his platform lowers and he steps down onto the ground, showing us that the man we had seemingly worshiped with our screams and our expressions of adulation walks on the same ground we do. And maybe it was the weed smoke, or maybe the sheer excitement, but as I was swaying to the music, I felt a connection to a higher power, something greater than myself. It was a moment of absolute perfection where I didn't feel alone and hopeless in the world.

Whether his messianic stature is bona fide or self-professed, one thing’s still for certain: an evening with Kanye West will blow your freaking mind.

Love him or loathe him, there are number of things we say about ‘Ye for certain. The guy boasts a repertoire of hits hotter than Seth Rogen’s motorcycle seat. This is a guy with the talent to dethrone his mentor, with the vision to produce the totally unexpected, and with the ego to say and do exactly what he wants. All in all, those ingredients synthesise to produce the greatest live music experience on offer in the modern age. Hands down.

However it’s what we can’t say for certain about West that polarises crowds the world over. The rants, the fights, the Jesus lookalikes; to some extent, it’s no great surprise that the rapper has found himself at loggerheads with audiences on multiple occasions.

But if that’s the price we have to pay to accept this visionary into our lives, then show me where to sign. When Kanye delivers, he arrives first class. “One of the greatest hip-hop sets of all time”, so said the Hollywood Reporter of Coachella 2011. “I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things”, so said Kanye of himself. Hear, hear, Mr. West.

The sounds of hydraulic machinery filled Oracle Arena, as the stench of dirt weed mingled with the faux fog that had been pumping into the air over the past two hours. The opening samples of “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” were slowed down and turned elastic, thus leaving alien chemtrails of sound in the wake of the shadowy figure tethered to the hovering spacecraft. With heads upturned in anticipation of first contact, the crowd was lost in darkness. Chants of “Kan-ye! Kan-ye!” filled every empty space, until the object of their affection shone his light down on the chosen few.

The party-sized hoverboard had traversed the entire length of the arena (from a height of about 10 feet above the tallest head), before blasting spotlights on those below; instantly creating the largest circle pit a hip-hop tour has ever seen.

“Just wanna feel liberated, I, I, I…”

Kanye West had arrived in Oakland, and while many outside the venue failed to understand the appeal, those who had been waiting patiently (well past start time) were losing their collective mind.

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Kanye was a lot more humble than I expected. I've always loved a lot of the lyrics of his songs as they speak about real stuff that's going on, like the media covering up on what's actually important and people higher up trying to make everyone conform. His concert was better than I thought it would be. He was entertaining, interactive with the crowd, tried to get the people on the floor to start a mosh pit (haha) and he talked about some shit in the media against him that wasn't true. The massive screen thing he had happening put an interesting twist to seeing Kanye as it was done in like negative colouring and you could only half see him a lot of the time, which was a bit frustrating but also added to the drama of him. I LOVED the freaky masks he wore half the time, very Kanye- all that bling. He played a good mix of his music from a bunch of new stuff right back to the older stuff. Almost the whole seated crowd were standing the whole time (something I've NEVER seen at a concert) I have a newfound respect for Kanye West and am really happy I finally got to see him. I'd definitely go back

it was fucking horrible as shit like really kanye?

i, as well as everyone else who came to see your show in sacramento, were so hyped. it was literally going to be the highlight of my thanksgiving break. i bought your tickets for $70 as well as a shirt for $20, only for you to show up AN HOUR AND A HALF LATE, perform three songs that you didn't even finish, and to listen to your inaccurate rant about politics. honestly man, i respected you so much as an artist; you were and still are a musical genius and i will forever support your music career, but i lost all respect for you as a person yesterday. you disrespected your fans last night, who have been nothing but loyal to you throughout your career. that was a real shitty move, and to be honest with you man, i feel sorry for you. the money so up in your mind that you don't know who you are anymore.

we miss the old kanye

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The beginning of the TLOP tour was soo epic ! He plays the extended sample of Father stretch my hands, and when you hear "If young metro don't trust you" the whole stadium goes crazy !! If you want to have a top 5 concert experience download the playlist shown below, bump that with your friends the week of the concert and be ready to leave the concert with no voice lol !!!!

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The Saint Pablo Tour was by far the dopest energy in one place that I have felt at a venue the size of Verizon Center. The stage was suspended in air and the attendees with floor seats were actually a mosh pit! They stood the entire time fueling the energy as he floated above their heads and out stretched arms. Everyone in the building stood the entire concert. Everyone. Though the lights were dim and the big screen had an hallucination type effect, the lyrics and his movement came thru with Kanye precision. I had the time of my life at this concert. The cherry on the top was that I was invited as a surprise from my love. The hands down best surprise I've ever received!! I love the old Kanye. I love the new Kanye. I love Kanye. Period.

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Kanye West world tour 2024-25: Everything we know so far including list of possible locations & dates

Kanye West has reunited with his former manager John Monopoly to put together a world tour in support of 'Vultures 1'

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has shared plans for an upcoming world tour including possible dates at venues in the United States, UK, Kenya and more. The US rapper appears to be plotting the global trek himself after claiming he's had trouble booking concert arenas due to his string of recent controversies.

In hopes of putting together an international tour, Ye has reunited with his former manager John Monopoly, who split from Ye more than a decade ago, Billboard reports . The duo have been attempting to get AEG and Live Nation back in the fold, after both major events companies reportedly ceased communication with the controversial rapper.

On Wednesday (February 7), West shared a poster - via Insta Stories - for various proposed concerts around the world. The poster was part of a screenshot of a conversation West was likely having with someone at Cara Lewis Group, a New York-based entertainment company who are seemingly handling all concert and tour bookings.

The tentative dates would be from June 2024 until February 2025. So what proposed tour dates and venues were included on the poster? Here's everything you need to know.

Full list of possible dates for Kanye West's world tour

The current list of unconfirmed dates and venues that Kanye West shared via Instagram is below:

June 22, 2024 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Scotia Bank Arena
June 23, 2024 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Scotia Bank Arena
June 27, 2024 - New York City, New York, US at Barclays Center
June 28, 2024 - New York City, New York, US at Barclays Center
June 29, 2024 - New York City, New York, US at Barclays Center
June 30, 2024 - New York City, New York, US at Barclays Center
July 5, 2024 - Atlanta, Georgia, US at State Farm Arena
July 6, 2024 - Atlanta, Georgia, US at State Farm Arena
July 13, 2024 - Houston, Texas, US at Toyota Center
July 14, 2024 - Houston, Texas, US at Toyota Center
July 19, 2024 - Chicago, Illinois, US at United Center
July 20, 2024 - Chicago, Illinois, US at United Center
July 21, 2024 - Chicago, Illinois, US at United Center
July 5, 2024 - Chicago, Illinois, US at United Center
July 26, 2024 - Los Angeles, California at Crypto Arena
July 27, 2024 - Los Angeles, California at Crypto Arena
July 5, 2024 - Mexico City (CDMX), Mexico at Arena CDMX
August 17, 2024 - Madrid, Spain at Madrid Arena
August 30, 2024 - Cairo, Egypt at Cairo International Stadium
September 5, 2024 - London, UK at London O2
September 6, 2024 - London, UK at London O2
September 7, 2024 - London, UK at London O2
September 8, 2024 - London, UK at London O2
November 29, 2024 - Dubai, UAE at Coca-Cola Arena
November 30, 2024 - Dubai, UAE at Coca-Cola Arena
December 7, 2024 - Nairobi, Kenya at Nyayo International Stadium
December 14, 2024 - Lagos, Nigeria at Eko Energy City
January 11, 2024 - Sydney, Australia at Qudos Bank Arena
January 12, 2024 - Sydney, Australia at Qudos Bank Arena
January 24, 2025 - Melbourne, Australia at Rod Laver Arena
January 25, 2025 - Melbourne, Australia at Rod Laver Arena
February 7, 2024 - Tokyo, Japan at Tokyo Dome

Where else might Kanye West perform?

Kanye West uploaded an additional screenshot of a conversation he was having with American rapper Freddie Gibbs. The Grammy-nominated artist appears to ask West if he would like to perform at the Petco Stadium in San Diego, to which West replied: "Yes I do. Who do I speak to?".

In another Instagram story, West appears to receive a message from a contact named 'Julz', with a host of proposed venues across the world. The message suggests West might like to perform at the Corcovado Mountain in Rio De Janeiro, the Great Wall of China in Beijing and the Giza Pyramid complex in Egypt.

Other proposed venues shared via Instagram Stories are Hong Kong's Galaxy Arena and the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Hawaii. No dates have been confirmed yet.

When was the last time Kanye West went on tour?

If Ye is successful in plotting his 2024 world tour, it will be his first global trek since 2016’s Saint Pablo Tour. The tour frequently made headlines for his comments in support of Donald Trump and was cancelled a month before it was scheduled to finish on December 31 due to West's hospitalisation.

Kanye West world tour 2024-25: Everything we know so far including list of possible locations & dates

Kanye West Profile

Kanye West is a rap artist originating from Chicago, Illinois. He is one of the most popular rappers of the last decade, but is polarizing and often full of controversy. He has released 7 studio albums so far and his 8th, tentatively titles LOVE EVERYONE, is due out on June 1, 2018.

Some of Kanye West’s most popular songs include “Power”, “All of the Lights”, and “Jesus Walks”. He new album is seven songs long and follows Kanye’s return to Twitter in early 2018 where he began promoting positivity and more inspirational messaging.

Kanye West’s last tour was the Saint Pablo tour in 2016. The tour was acclaimed for its stage, which hovered over top of the floor mosh pit and moved around each arena. The tour was cut short by 22 shows after Kanye West checked into rehab for opioid addiction and exhaustion.

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Kanye West shares potential cities for UK, US and world ‘Vultures’ tour with Ty Dolla $ign

Ye wants to perform at the Great Wall Of China and the Pyramids Of Giza as part of the trek

Kanye West has shared the potential cities he’ll visit as part of his ‘Vultures’ world tour with Ty Dolla $ign .

The first volume of the two rappers’ long-delayed collaborative project is due to arrive this Friday (February 9) ahead of two further instalments on March 8 and April 5, respectively.

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Taking to Instagram Stories last night (February 6), West shared a screenshot of a text message exchange that revealed a possible tour schedule. The list included arena dates in Toronto, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other locations throughout this summer.

Additionally, the work-in-progress itinerary featured huge gigs in Spain and Egypt ahead of four consecutive nights at The O2 in London this September. Further performances were listed for Dubai, Nairobi and Lagos.

The document concluded with dates in Sydney, Melbourne and Tokyo – all of which were slated for early 2025.

Later, Ye posted a screenshot that showed he would be looking into some “iconic international venue options” such as the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (home of the Christ the Redeemer statue), the Great Wall Of China, and the Pyramids Of Giza.

Another upload contained email correspondence from someone expressing interest in “discussing shows” that could be staged in “sports arenas and stadiums”. Check out the screenshot below.

Childish Gambino Teases Songs With Kanye, Kid Cudi as He Promises World Tour

By Tomás Mier

Childish Gambino is rolling out a new era of music. On Monday’s episode of his Gilga Radio show, the musician played two new songs featuring Kid Cudi and Kanye West , and also announced an arena run of shows called The New World Tour.

After playing Olivia Rodrigo’s “Obsessed” on the radio show and a voice declaring, “If Childish Gambino wants to do something, you let him do it,” Gambino debuted the new Kanye track, seemingly titled “Say Less.”

“You n—-s talk shit. You n—-s cheapskates. You n—-s talk show. You n—-s Ziwe. You n—-s deepfake. You n—-s AI/But you’d never have your mother sitting courtside,” Gambino raps before Ye’s verse.

YE X CHILDISH GAMBINO “SAY LESS” FULL SONG IN HQ pic.twitter.com/WIoewsOR2O — Jasper (@Jasp3r_0) April 22, 2024

“I rather have no regrets, but yo my agent said ‘Yo, say less,'” West raps. “N—-s waiting on the throne, like ‘Hoe, say, ‘Yes.’ I took my shoes out the store, they the new Payless/That’s the new God flow, but I don’t pray less.”

Gambino also debuted a second song featuring Cudi, titled “Warlords.” The track arrives just days after Cudi seemed to throw shade at Gambino on social media. “Kid Cudi, if you got a problem, I’m not here for the beef. Just talk to me. Actually talk to people,” Gambino said on his debut Gilga Radio episode last week.

Childish Gambino X Kid Cudi-WARLORDS P1 pic.twitter.com/Lw77MK4fla — oozeyboi (@oozeyboi) April 22, 2024

As for the tour, Gambino has yet to announce dates for it, though he teased arena shows on Gilga Radio. The musician last hit the road in 2019 for the This Is America Tour. The second episode of Gilga radio also featured appearances from Nathan Fielder, Ayo Edebiri, and Eddie Murphy.

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Ep 2 of GILGA radio now available on https://t.co/xbRiNrtVDe tour signups at https://t.co/jFiP50SsdD — donald (@donaldglover) April 22, 2024

“We’re releasing Atavista , but after that, there’s the final Childish Gambino album — a soundtrack for the fans,” he revealed during a broadcast last weekend, via Uproxx . His Instagram Live included a teaser for the original soundtrack to Bando Stone & the New World , which he said will be the final Gambino album.

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A Timeline of Drake & Ye’s Relationship: From Friends to Feuds

The two rap titans started as friends before the relationship soured.

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Drake and Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — have just about seen it all throughout their decorated careers. The pair of rap titans have been friends, collaborators, mentors, enemies and more over the course of the last 15 years.

The 6 God once hailed Ye as the “most influential” person on his sound, and he’s gone on to live out his “Thank Me Now” lyrics of seeing his idols become rivals, as Drizzy and West are currently entrenched in a feud with no sign of reconciliation on the horizon.

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After meeting in Hawaii, West took Drake under his wing and directed the music video to his So Far Gone breakout hit “Best I Ever Had” in 2009.

By the mid-2010s, they were working on a collab project that could’ve shifted the paradigm in hip-hop, but the rappers went their separate ways and have been sending shots in an on-and-off-again feud since.

It was thought that their beef was finally squashed for good in December 2021 when J. Prince helped broker a truce for Drake and Ye to reunite on stage at the Free Larry Hoover Benefit concert in Los Angeles.

However, their relationship eventually went awry again. In April 2024, West threw his hat into the ring to enter the rap civil war, going against Drake when hopping on a remix to Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Like That.”

Check out Billboard ‘s timeline about how Ye and Drake got to this point in their love-hate relationship over the years.

September 2007: Drake Freestyles Over "Barry Bonds"

Drake showed respect to Ye from the early days of the latter’s career while freestyling over the thumping “Barry Bonds” beat on Drizzy’s 2007 Comeback Season mixtape. “Barry Bonds” was on Ye’s Graduation album as a Lil Wayne collaboration, which arrived shortly after Drake’s mixtape; it’s unclear how Drizzy got the beat ahead of time.

September 2008: Drake Freestyles Over"Swagga Like Us"

Rap’s ultimate posse cut arrived in ’08 with T.I., Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Ye joining forces for “Swagga Like Us.” The braggadocios track peaked at no. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Drake wanted in on the hip-hop titans teaming up, and freestyled over West’s production to showcase he can go toe-to-toe with the best the genre has to offer.

February 2009: Drake Makes Ye's '808s & Heartbreak' Opener His Canvas

Drake’s breakout mixtape So Far Gone included another hat tip to West by making the desolate electro-pop 808s & Heartbreak opener “Say You Will” his own canvas, which he repackaged as “Say What’s Real.”

May 2009: Drake Calls Ye the 'Most Influential Person' on His Sound

Drake showered Ye with praise in a 2009 interview with MTV. Drizzy had met the “Good Life” rapper months prior in Hawaii while West was working on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy .

“Before I ever got the chance to meet him, Kanye West shaped a lot of what I do, as far as music goes,” Drake said at the time. “We always, always, always took the time to listen to Kanye’s music and appreciate it beyond. We searched the samples and we find out where his inspiration came from, because he has one of the best ears in music, period. He knows how to recognize great music that’s not his. He knows how to utilize great sounds and great music. So before I met him, I had the utmost respect for Kanye West. I’d even go as far as to say he’s the most influential person as far as a musician that I’d ever had in my life.”

May 2009: Ye Says Drake Had the Best Bar of '09

Ye returned the favor when crowning Drake with the best line of 2009 on Young Money’s “Every Girl.”

West wrote on his Kanye Universecity blog: “Drake said, ‘Do you like girls like I do?? Les-bi-honest!!!!!’ Best line of the year so far!”

Drake later told MTV in response to the props: “I feel like it’s funny, because that’s something he might have said. [But] it’s an honor that he’s even looking at me as somewhat of an equal, somewhat of a peer. I think he’s one of the greatest to ever do it.”

July 2009: West Directs Drake's "Best I Ever Had" Video

Ye put his creative vision to work when hopping behind the lens to direct the visual for Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” anthem. West had Drake play the coach of a women’s basketball team that certainly wasn’t lacking in the breast department.

August 2009: Drake & Kanye West Team Up With Eminem & Lil Wayne for "Forever"

Drake may have missed out on “Swagga Like Us,” but he made sure to find his way on the next hip-hop posse cut. “Forever” served as a knighting of sorts with Eminem, Ye and Lil Wayne welcoming Drizzy into rap’s pantheon.

April 2010: Kanye West Produces on Drake's Debut Album 'Thank Me Later'

West wasn’t featured as a vocal guest on Drake’s Thank Me Later , but produced the island-tinged “Find Your Love” and is credited as a co-writer on the 2010 debut album track. Ye also produced a song titled “You Know You Know,” which didn’t make the final album’s cut and ended up leaking months later.

November 2010: Drake Credited on Ye's "All of the Lights" & His Verse Leaks

Drake is credited with providing additional vocals on the luscious “All of the Lights,” in which Kanye spared no expense and brought in myriad talented collaborators to contribute to the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy standout.

While he’s barely on the original album version, an unofficial “All of the Lights” remix arrived following the track’s release, and finds Drake alongside Lil Wayne and Big Sean.

January 2011: Drake Swipes at Jay-Z & Ye While Teasing Lil Wayne Joint Album

Drake appears to take a jab at Ye and Jay-Z as they prepared to deliver Watch the Throne during his 2011 Tim Westwood interview.

“I heard some other guys are coming out with an album too,” Drake said while teasing that he and Wayne were teaming up for a joint project. “There’s two other rappers that are coming out with an album together. I don’t know where they got that idea.”

October 2011: Drake Says It's His Goal to 'Surpass' West

Drake shows love to Ye and says it’s an “honor” to be even compared to him, but makes it known it’s a competition out there, and his plans were to one day “surpass” West’s accomplishments in hip-hop.

“It’s an honor. When I was a kid trying to figure out what I liked, it was Ye who I related to the most. He was an artist, in every sense, from his cover art to his music. Now, I would say, he is [a] really great competitor and friend,” he told The Source . “My goal is to surpass everything he’s accomplished. I don’t want to be as good as Kanye — I want to be better.”

August 2013: Ye Appears at Drake's OVO Fest

Ye made an appearance at Drake’s OVO Fest in 2013. “Me and Hov would’ve never made Watch the Throne if [Drake] wasn’t putting pressure on us like that, so I just want to pay my respects,” West said on stage. Drake called Ye’s support at his festival the “most important moment in my career to date.”

February 2014: Drake Snipes at 'Yeezus,' West Responds

Drake jabbed at some of Ye’s bars on Yeezus . “There were some real questionable bars on there,” he told Rolling Stone . “Like that ‘Swaghili’ line? Come on, man. Even Fabolous wouldn’t say some s–t like that.” However, he saluted West as the “reason” he’s here.

Ye responded on the Yeezus Tour, not leaning into the feud and claiming it was all “love” between both parties. “They always be trying to pit n—as against each other and it ain’t going down no more. So, tonight it ain’t none of that. We love Drake,” West told the New Jersey crowd.

March 2015: Ye Says Drake Inspired Him to Hit the Studio

A decade into his career, Ye needed a push creatively, and Drake’s run of hits helped provide that inspiration to hit the studio and take things to another level in the mid-2010s.

“Someone who’s like, ‘Come on, man, get back up!’ I was sitting there getting fat. Sitting back, just knocked everybody out. And then this guy hits the gym, he’s just running around like, ‘Pow, 14 hits’ I’m like, ‘Whoa. Let me go to the studio, then. Let’s see what’s happening. Let me get these lyrics up,'” Ye told Clique . “So, that’s where we at right now, that’s where you getting these records from.”

January 2016: Drake Boasts His Pool Is Bigger Than Ye's

Drake kicked off 2016 with “Summer Sixteen,” in which he flexed about allegedly having a bigger pool in his backyard than his Calabasas neighbors Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. “Now I got a house in L.A., now I got a bigger pool than Ye/ And look man, Ye’s pool is nice, mine’s just bigger’s what I’m saying/ I’m that n—a’s what I’m saying,” he raps.

February 2016: Drake Earns Writing Credit on 'The Life of Pablo'

Drake is credited as a co-writer on The Life of Pablo sleeper “30 Hours” featuring André 3000. Drizzy allegedly recorded an early demo , and the reference track leaked on social media following TLOP ‘s arrival.

August 2016: Ye Pulls Up to OVO Fest & Teases Drake Joint Album

Ye made another OVO Fest appearance in Toronto, where he ran through a mini-set and teased that a collab album with Drake was on the horizon. “This man is the reason I’m on this stage. My biggest inspiration,” Drizzy said to the audience about Ye.

Later that month, billboards hinting at the joint project began popping up, reading “Calabasas is the new Abu Dhabi” with the logos of OVO and Ye’s G.O.O.D. Music.

pic.twitter.com/vWIdPmvQ7G — G.O.O.D. MUSIC (@GOODMUSIC) August 28, 2016

November 2016: Ye Rants About Drake & DJ Khaled's "For Free" Dominating Radio

West took the stage in Sacramento on Nov. 19, 2016, in what would end up being the final date of the Saint Pablo Tour, as he was hospitalized days later and canceled the rest of the trek due to extreme exhaustion and stress. In his final minutes on stage, the rapper went on a stream of consciousness in which he in part ranted about the success of DJ Khaled and Drake’s multi-platinum “For Free” dominating radio airwaves.

“We can love each other, but the rules gotta be fair,” he said. “Khaled, and Drake, and radio, and Doc, and 92.3 and everybody — is it just me or did you hear that song so many times? You say you wanna play it ‘For Free’? Ayy, ayy, you know what it is, though.”

February 2017: Drake Responds to Ye's Radio Rant

Drake responded to Ye’s radio rant targeting his and DJ Khaled’s “For Free” in an interview with DJ Semtex. The OVO boss also alluded to how he and Yeezy were working toward a joint album, so dissing him didn’t make sense.

“Because in the same breath, I went from, like, working on a project with him, to him sorta publicly s—ting on me and DJ Khaled for being on the radio too much,” he said. “I’m not sure why we’re the target of your choice that you made that night. And yeah, I accept what you’re going through, and I just go and continue working on my own thing.”

March 2017: Drake & Ye Toast to 'More Life'

Drake recruited West to appear on his More Life playlist, and the duo teamed up for the underwhelming “Glow.” At this point, the OVO honcho and Yeezy’s relationship was starting to fracture, and the rap titans haven’t collaborated on a track in the years since.

May 2018: West Produced Pusha T's "Infrared" Taking Shots at Drake

Pusha T sniped at Drake on Daytona’s closing track “Infrared,” which is produced by West (he helmed the entire project). King Push taps Drizzy with ghostwriting allegations by bringing up Quentin Miller, who was credited on several tracks of Drake’s 2015 mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late . “It was written like Nas, but it came from Quentin,” Pusha raps.

May 2018: Drake Responds With Shots at Ye on "Duppy Freestyle"

Drake quickly responded to Pusha T with “Duppy Freestyle,” but it wasn’t only King Push in his crosshairs, as there was plenty of smoke for Ye too. Drizzy puts West on blast because Drake allegedly helped Ye complete a handful of recent records.

“I’ve done things for him I thought that he never would need/ Father had to stretch his hands out and get it from me/ I pop style for 30 hours then let him repeat,” Drake raps.

June 2018: Drake Releases 'Scorpion' Album, Joe Budden Believes It's Filled With Shots at Ye

Drake released his Scorpion album in June 2018 while Ye was rolling out his string of G.O.O.D. Music projects. Fans and industry critics alike speculated Drizzy was jabbing at West throughout the album. Joe Budden theorized on his eponymous podcast that verses on “Emotionless” and “8 Out of 10” were connected and taking aim at Ye.

“He bodies this flip of the word ‘good’ throughout this whole song. So much so, if you’re not really paying attention you think he’s just using the word good — he ain’t. Owls are a sign of good luck, correct? What I think he’s saying is they’re switching camps,” Budden suggested.

August 2018: Ye Denies Feeding Pusha T Information About Drake's Son

Pusha T alleged that Drake was hiding a son in diss track “The Story of Adidon.” Fans speculated that Ye was the one to feed Push the information about little Adonis — whose existence was previously not public knowledge — since Drake reportedly headed to work with Kanye in Wyoming months earlier, but West denied sharing the news.

“I’m Ye. I got major things to do other than be telling him some information about Drake,” Ye said to WGCI . “I honestly don’t care that much, in all honesty. When we talk about the Drake thing, it hits me in a really sensitive place because you hang around people and they come to your house and be around your family and this and that.

“And then they get mad about a beat and send you purple demon emojis. We understand that he got upset about [‘The Story of Adidon’]. I feel that it was insensitive for him to, in any way, stress me out in any way after TMZ, while I’m in Wyoming healing, pulling all the pieces together, working on my music.”

September 2018: West Apologizes to Drake for Role in Pusha T Feud

Yeezy attempted to broker a peace treaty between OVO and G.O.O.D. Music with Drake and Pusha T’s feud simmering. West sent his well wishes and tried to clear the static .

“Sending good energy and love to Drake and family and crew,” West tweeted at the time. “I haven’t seen the show in person but the images look incredible online. I understand where the confusion started.”

Ye also went on to publicly deny giving Pusha the information about Adonis for “Story of Adidon.” He apologized for stepping on Scorpion ‘s release date with his string of G.O.O.D. Music releases in June 2018, in addition to how he released “Lift Yourself” himself as a troll after promising Drake he could hop on it.

“There should have been no songs with my involvement that had any negative energy towards you,” Ye added.

September 2018: Kim Kardashian Denies Drake Rumors

West’s wife at the time, Kim Kardashian, shut down rumors that she had been romantically involved with Drake in the past. The Shade Room posted an Everyday Struggle clip of Nick Cannon and DJ Akademiks speculating whether the reality star and Drake had ever hooked up, and she hopped into the Instagram comments section to deny the rumors. “Never happened,” she wrote. “End of story.”

September 2018: Ye Demands Drake Deny Kim K. Romance Rumors

Ye went on another Twitter rant calling for Drake to put an end to the speculation tying “Kiki” — whom Drizzy references on “In My Feelings” — to Kim Kardashian.

“The fact that people are making rumors and thinking that you f–ked my wife and you’re not saying anything and you’re carrying it well like that,” Ye said at the time. “Don’t sit well with my spirit. You know, if I had a girlfriend from Chicago and her name was Ranita and you were married to Rihanna, I wouldn’t make no song called RiRi. So when you’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t know where it comes from.’ You’re too smart for that, bro. You know where it came from.”

October 2018: Drake Feels Ye Manipulated Him With Wyoming Invite

Months after the dust settled following the Drake and Pusha T drama, fans were still searching for answers. The 6 God pulled up to The Shop , where he opened up about his trip to Ye’s writing camp in Wyoming earlier in 2018.

Drake revealed he allegedly played Weest unreleased music, including “March 14,” which includes references to his son and baby mama that the public didn’t know about yet.

“He sold me on this whole speech of like, ‘I’m in a great place, I’m making money, and I’m a father, and I wanna be Quincy Jones and help you,'” Drake said. “‘But in order to do that, you’ve gotta be transparent with me, you gotta play me your music and you gotta tell me when you’re dropping. And I know you don’t like to do things like that.’ I guess we all kind of felt a genuine vibe from it, so I played him my music and I told him when I was dropping.”

He continued to say he felt manipulated and betrayed by Ye for confiding in him about certain things regarding his growing family. Drizzy reportedly even showed him a photo of his son, and claimed that Ye lied about working on an album slated for the summer ( ye dropped in June).

“I tell him I’m having trouble with my son’s mother. We had a conversation,” Drake added. “Oh, this guy’s trolling me. This was like a manipulative, like, ‘I wanna break you’ thing. I said, ‘Alright, I’m gonna go back to distancing myself again. I know what this is.'”

December 2018: Ye Demands an Apology & Meetup With Drake

Another day, another Ye rant in 2018. West used an alleged text seeking clearance for Drake’s “Say What’s Real” to go to streaming (The So Far Gone track sampled Ye’s “Say You Will”) to go after the 6 God once again.

“This proves s–t faker than wrestling for mentioning the 350s and trying to take food out your idols kids mouths,” he tweeted, seeking an apology for Drizzy’s “No Stylist” jab. “Been trying to meet with you for six months bro. You sneak dissing on Travis [Scott] records and texting Kris Jenner talking bout how’s the family. Sending purple emojis when I’m dealing with mental s–t I need my apologies now. Not through Scooter [Braun] either. Not through Travis.”

December 2018: Y Claims Drake Is Threatening Him

Ye exploded in a lengthy tweet rant that went on for more than 125 messages, reigniting his feud with Drake. It was seemingly sparked by a phone conversation between the two during which Ye claimed Drizzy threatened him. “So Drake if anything happens to me or anyone from my family you are the first suspect — so cut the tough talk,” he wrote at the time.

“There would never be a Drake without a Kanye West so never open your mouth with a threat,” Ye continued.

West didn’t stop there: He referred to Drake as a “bully” and demanded Drizzy “leave … [his] family alone.” The epic rant also spawned the famous “He running around like he Pac” tweet.

December 2019: Drake Addresses the Feud on 'Rap Radar'

Drake sat down for a two-hour interview with Rap Radar, discussing a multitude of topics, including his issues with Yeezy, which he said he had no interest in patching up.

“That’s where all of this stems from,” he said of West and his war with Pusha. “It’s all rooted in that situation, yes. I think that [Ye] definitely recruited a guy with a similar dislike for me no matter what he says in interviews. I know that there’s something there that bothers him deeply and yeah, I can’t fix it for him. It just is what it is.”

However, he’s wasn’t going to walk back the past praise he’d showered on Ye. “He’s still my — obviously with the exception of Lil Wayne and if I look at Hov — as the guy who truly shaped the majority of my thinking, skillset, all those things, Kanye West would be my favorite artist all around,” Drake declared. “And that’s just facts. I have no problem saying that. Things have changed. I’m not just some kid that’s a fan anymore. Now we have personal situations, and like I said, a lot of his issues with me, I can’t fix them for him.”

August 2021: Ye Seemingly Doxxes Drake Following Trippie Redd Collab Diss

Drake reignited his beef with Ye ahead of their album showdown with his guest verse on Trippie Redd’s “Betrayal.” The OVO mogul wasn’t considering any kind of armistice. “All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know/ 45, 45 (Burned out), let it go/ Ye ain’t changin’ s–t for me, it’s set in stone,” he raps.

Ye got wind of the jabs and appeared to dox Drake by revealing what may have been Drizzy’s Toronto address before later deleting the tweet. He entered his “Joker” era with more threats at the 6 God. “I live for this. I’ve been fucked with by nerd a– jock n—as like you my whole life. You will never recover. I promise you,” he declared.

Drake didn’t take anything too seriously, as he shared an Instagram Story laughing off West’s latest antics.

August-September 2021: Ye & Drake Go "Back to Back" With Album Showdown

The feud reached a head with Ye stepping on another Drake release date by cutting him in line with Donda arriving four days before Certified Lover Boy . Both albums debuted atop the Billboard 200. Donda moved 309,000 album-equivalent units in less than a full sales week before being replaced at the summit by Drake as CLB sold 613,000 album units .

December 2021: Kanye West & Drake Reunite for Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert

Drake and Ye agreed to put their differences aside for the greater good in a prison reform fundraiser spreading awareness surrounding the incarcerated Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover. Rap-A-Lot Records co-founder J. Prince helped broker a meeting to arrange the unlikely peace treaty as Ye and Drizzy agreed to hit the stage for the Free Larry Hoover Benefit concert.

The pair of rap titans put on a united front while running through plenty of hits from their decorated discographies at the Coliseum show in Los Angeles.

“I appreciate Kanye for having me up here tonight,” Drake said on stage of the surreal scene that didn’t seem possible a couple of months earlier. “It’s important that we make this happen. When we were walking through the arches right there it felt like a dream. It felt surreal. It was something I always wanted to do being on stage with my idol as he’s running through one of the best catalogs in music, period.”

Forever 🕊🦉 pic.twitter.com/FXlf02TNqH — Donda’s Place (@dondas___place) December 10, 2021

Ye x Drake walk out #FreeLarryHoover pic.twitter.com/wH0UGfcUXr — Donda’s Place (@dondas___place) December 10, 2021

April 2023: Drake Samples Kim Kardashian for "Search and Rescue"

Drake stirred the pot with Ye once more with his “Search and Rescue” single. Drake elected to use himself and a mystery woman in motorcycle helmets as the cover art, which some speculated to be Kim Kardashian. However, it was quickly debunked and uncovered that the woman in the artwork is artist and model Lilah Pi.

Although Kardashian’s voice is sampled on “Search and Rescue,” it was a quote from the reality star talking to her mother on Keeping Up With the Kardashians about her divorce from Kanye that ended up making the cut. “I didn’t come this far, just to come this far and not be happy,” she cryptically said on the series finale.

November 2023: Drake Blasts Yeezy's Truce on "Red Button"

2023 couldn’t expire without Drake getting another dig in at Ye. The 6 God returned in November 2023 to deliver his For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition . Drake blasts West on “Red Button” for using their truce as a setup to go behind his back, and he’s not falling for any of his olive branches anymore.

“Every time you need me for a boost, I never hesitated/ Every time that Yeezy called a truce, he had my head inflated/ Thinkin’ we gon’ finally peace it up and get to levitatin’/ Realize that everything premeditated,” Drake raps.

April 2024: Ye Releases "Like That" Remix

West was only going to stay quiet so long as a rap war waged, especially with a plethora of rappers ganging up on Drake. Yeezy delivered a remix to Future and Metro Boomin’s Kendrick Lamar-assisted Drake diss track “Like That” on April 20.

The remix isn’t on streaming services, but is available on West’s website. Ye took aim at Drake and brought up the 6 God’s reported massive licensing deal with Lucian Grainge’s Universal Music Group.

“Where’s Lucian? Serve your master, n—a/ You caught a little bag for your masters, didn’t ya/ Lifetime deal, I feel bad for n—as/ Y’all so outta sight, outta mind/ I can’t even think of a Drake line,” he raps.

Days later, on April 22, Ye hopped on Justin LaBoy’s The Message podcast, where he credited the “elimination of Drake” as his inspiration for dropping the remix.

“[Future] called me and I went to the studio and laid that. We went through the creative process of adding the chords and called the Hooligans out in London to get on the joint,” Ye explained. “Everybody was very, very energized about the elimination of Drake.”

He continued: “You say rich baby daddy it’s like Drake has a rich baby daddy named Lucian and Universal. It’s like, ‘My daddy got it. My daddy control the spins. My daddy got the DSPs.’ Drake has a rich baby daddy named Lucian.”

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Drake And Kendrick Lamar Feud Timeline: Lamar Labels Drake A ‘Certified Pedophile’ In Latest Diss Track ‘Not Like Us’

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Kendrick Lamar continued his long-running—but quickly escalating—beef with Drake on Saturday night by releasing the diss track “Not Like Us,” his third release in 36 hours, as the feud continues to rapidly grow to include other rappers.

Drake appeared to respond to Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Euphoria" in an Instagram Story post ... [+] Wednesday. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Oct. 6, 2023 Drake and J. Cole released collaboration “ First Person Shooter ,” in which J. Cole raps that himself, Drake and Lamar are the “big three” of rap.

March 22 Lamar responded on his verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s song “Like That,” slamming the rappers for “sneak dissing” and rejecting their idea of the “big three,” instead rapping: “It’s just big me.”

April 5 J. Cole dropped his own Lamar diss track, “ 7 Minute Drill ,” in which he fired “warning shots” at the rapper, accusing him of seeking “attention” and slamming his latest music releases as “tragic.”

April 7 Just two days after releasing “7 Minute Drill,” J. Cole backed down from the feud, stating he felt pressured to respond because “the world wanna see blood.”

April 13 Drake’s response to Lamar, “Push Ups,” leaked online (before its April 19 release), with lyrics slamming Lamar’s shorter stature and his mainstream collaborations with Taylor Swift and Maroon 5, while also dissing other artists including Rick Ross and The Weeknd.

April 15 Ross responded to Drake with “ Champagne Moments ,” alleging that Drake had multiple cosmetic procedures done including a nose job and ab surgery, while also accusing him of using ghostwriters (an accusation Drake has repeatedly denied).

April 19 Drake released another diss track, “ Taylor Made Freestyle ,” using AI-generated voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur to diss Lamar, daring him to respond: “We waitin' on you,” Drake rapped.

April 21 Kanye West jumped into the beef on a remix of “ Like That ,” taking shots at Drake’s music and his deal with Universal Music Group, stating he and his collaborators are “ energized ” for the “elimination of Drake.”

April 30 Lamar dropped “ Euphoria ,” a six-minute long diss track in which he lambasts Drake’s biracial identity (suggesting he shouldn’t be able to say the n-word), slams the rapper’s ability as a father and calls Drake a “scam artist,” questioning his authenticity as a rapper.

May 1 Drake seemingly responded to Lamar’s diss by posting a clip from the 1999 film “10 Things I Hate About You” on his Instagram story in which Julia Stiles’ character Kat lists all the reasons she hates Heath Ledger’s character Patrick—possibly mirroring a part of “ Euphoria ” where Lamar lists reasons he hates Drake.

May 2 “Euphoria” jumped from No. 19 to No. 1 on the daily U.S. Spotify chart , while Drake’s “Push Ups” rose from No. 15 to No. 11, marking a big increase in streams for both rappers—Drake ranks No. 2 on the Spotify artists daily chart , while Lamar rose from No. 9 to No. 3, both behind Taylor Swift.

May 3 Lamar dropped a second Drake diss track , “ 6:16 in LA ”—likely a play on a format Drake has often used for song titles, including his “8am in Charlotte” and “5am in Toronto”—in which Lamar alleges Drake’s own team is against him, rapping that “everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it,” and stating Drake “can't ‘Toosie Slide’ up out of this one,” a reference to his 2020 song.

May 3 Drake released a new single “ Family Matters ” Friday night—and Lamar then hit back with “ Meet the Grahams ,” a reference to Drake’s legal name, Aubrey Drake Graham. (Read more about the two new diss tracks ).

May 4 Lamar dropped yet another diss track, his third song in 36 hours, titled “Not Like Us” early Saturday evening in which he alludes to Drake’s alleged affinity for younger women and calls him a “certified pedophile.”

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What To Watch For

Whether Drake will respond with a new diss track. Drake hinted on his previous diss tracks that the feud is only just beginning. “The first one really only took me an hour or two/ The next one is really 'bout to bring out the coward in you,” Drake rapped on “ Taylor Made Freestyle ,” possibly a nod to future diss tracks. He also rapped on “ Push Ups ” that he’s just “heating up.”

Surprising Fact

Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” is no longer available to stream after Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened legal action for the AI-generated use of his voice. Drake posted the song to his X and Instagram accounts on April 19, but deleted them a week later.

Key Background

Drake and Lamar’s beef spans more than the past decade. The two once had a seemingly friendly relationship, collaborating multiple times between 2011 and 2012. But in 2013, their relationship appeared to change after Lamar featured on Big Sean’s song, “ Control ,” in which he called out Drake and many other rappers, including Pusha T, Mac Miller and A$AP Rocky. “I got love for you all, but I'm tryna murder you,” Lamar rapped, adding he’s “tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you.” Fans have since theorized that the two have taken subtle shots at each other in their raps throughout the years. Some interpreted Lamar’s shots at artists who use ghostwriters in his 2015 song “ King Kunta ” could be a dig at Drake. Fans and observers of Lamar and Drake’s beef have interpreted the feud to be over who could be considered the greatest rapper of today—though a Rolling Stone analysis of their feud noted the two have different strengths and different claims to the title of “greatest” rapper. Lamar has long been known for his critically acclaimed work, including 17 Grammy Award wins and a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album, “DAMN.” Drake, meanwhile, is commercially dominant: He was the most-streamed artist of the 2010s on Spotify, and he has the most certified digital singles of any artist, according to the Recording Industry Association of America .

Drake, Lamar and other artists involved in the feud have found recent success on the charts, possibly thanks to the publicity offered by the feud. “Like That” has dominated the Billboard Hot 100 since release—it topped the chart for three consecutive weeks (though it fell to No. 17 this week, behind 14 tracks from Taylor Swift’s new album “The Tortured Poets Department”). “7 Minute Drill” debuted at No. 6 on the Hot 100 after its release, while “Push Ups” debuted at No. 19 this week (the fifth-highest non-Swift song). Lamar’s “ Euphoria ” is the No. 1 trending video on YouTube one day after release with 8 million views. Drake rose from No. 18 to No. 3 on this week’s Billboard Artist 100 , which measures the most popular artists in a given week based on sales, streaming and radio airplay numbers.

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Drake and Kendrick Lamar Is the Last Great Rap Beef. Thank God.

“Family Matters” and “Meet the Grahams” pushed this feud into nuclear territory. This may be the last time a beef ever matters this much—and depending on where you sit, that may be a good thing.

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Editor’s note: This piece was published about an hour before Kendrick dropped another Drake diss— “Not Like Us” —his fourth in four days and third in 36 hours. We can assume it won’t be his last—in fact, he raps on the latest track: “How many stocks do I really have in stock? / One, two, three, four, five, plus five,” so that means we may be getting 10 … total? Ten more? You have to admire this level of dedication to pettiness, even if it’s running our copy editors and production team ragged.

Rap isn’t the NBA. There’s no Anthony Edwards or Jamal Murray capable of sending our washed stars to Cancun. Bronny’s biggest opps are bored NBA writers and the ESPN ticker tape. Meanwhile, Adonis has witnessed two generational MCs scold his father for his child-raising abilities while taking buzz saws to his family tree before the age of 7. Commercial hip-hop—like most of the modern music industry—has become too fat, old, neutered, and niche to launch a new household name and thus more desperate and existentially bloody. This is what happens when the old guard becomes the only guard.

In 2024, with Kanye solely devoted to harvesting Ty Dolla $ign’s life force, only two rappers are capable of hoarding this much cultural real estate. Over the past month, Beyoncé dropped a country record, Quavo and Chris Brown are beefing over who terrorizes women more, and Taylor Swift tried to drive her DeLorean to the 1830s (apparently without all the slavery) . Yet all of these moments pale in comparison to what unfolded Friday night when two members of rap’s “Big Three” finally unleashed their Trinity test.

After weeks of threatening theoretical nukes, Drake finally donned the Oppenheimer hat with “Family Matters.” On the seering, seven-minute diss track Aubrey says that Kendrick assaulted his wife, while Kendrick’s close friend and label cofounder Dave Free sired a child with her. Seeing the mushroom cloud from Lucali’s, Kenny S. Truman said “bet” and immediately dropped a bomb on Drake’s head with the deranged and highly cursed “Meet the Grahams.” The top-level notes are brutal: In Kendrick’s telling, Drake is hiding another child and is the head of a Toronto child sex-trafficking ring. Meanwhile, Drake says that Kendrick hired a crisis-management team to hide the fact he physically abused his partner. If you’re asking why two of the biggest pop stars of their generation are debasing themselves in a bossip beef—all of the details of which, as of press time, have not been verified—while throwing women and kids on the front line, in the words of Kendrick: “I’ma get back to that, for the record.”

In terms of size, scale, and capital, we’re witnessing the last rap beef of this magnitude. And while too much critical ink is wasted on the monoculture—or lack thereof—it bears mentioning there will never be another rapper that occupies the same cultural space as Drake or Kendrick. There probably won’t even be another J. Cole. (Some subscribe to the belief that Jermaine belongs in the same conversation as Drake and Kendrick … I don’t.) As hip-hop becomes more diffuse and hyper-regional, Drake and Kendrick represent the last artists popular enough to suck up this much oxygen, even as the quality of their music has dipped to the point of feeling irrelevant next to their all-consuming celebrity.

The shenanigans started in March, when Future and Metro Boomin dropped their first of two albums this year, We Don’t Trust You . The main headline from it was Kendrick finally emerging from the therapy haze of Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers with a feature on “Like That,” in which Kendrick proceeds to do to Drake what the Canadian has done to his peers and well-endowed exes: turn a barn-burning diss into an inescapable smash hit. “Like That” spent five weeks atop the Hot 100, becoming Kendrick’s longest-running no. 1 in the process. It wasn’t long before an emboldened Metro Hoffa unionized the aging vets of the blog era against Big Drake and OVO industries. A$AP Rocky, the Weekend, Kanye, and Rick Ross happily jumped in.

J. Cole was the first to take the Kendrick bait on the underbaked “7 Minute Drill.” Over two rushed and wonky beats, hip-hop’s resident laundry man got high off the fumes of his overhyped feature run and claimed he wasn’t that jealous of Kendrick before mentioning that 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly is trash. But just days later, Jermaine decided to Summer Jam–screen himself at his annual hometown festival by admitting to a crowd of thousands that he was tossing and turning at night over the entire debacle. After (prolly) letting Nas and the general public down once again, Cole smartly ceded his time and the floor to the Big Two.

Since then, Drake and Kendrick have traded six records back and forth of varying degrees of quality and lucidity. Drake called Kendrick a short, hobbit-sized cuck, so Lamar lobbed back that Toronto’s finest has his braids pulled too tight and isn’t allowed to say the N-word anymore. One man desecrated Tupac’s grave with AI, while the other pissed all over a timestamp record while reportedly getting fed information from Roy Woods and OB O’Brien. “Push-Ups” and “Taylor Made” bled into “Euphoria” and “6:16 in L.A.” But after Friday’s squabble, all of them have been rendered inconsequential. To continue with the nuclear analogy: With “Meet the Grahams” and “Family Matters,” the Doomsday Machine has been activated, so maybe it’s best to hide underground. (J. Cole certainly agrees.)

If this all sounds exhausting, it should. Drake is 37 and Kendrick is about to be. Both these men have kids and families they could be tending to, but instead we’re treated to a beef that started over essentially nothing—if we’re to believe Kendrick, over Drake and Cole linking up in “First Person Shooter” and invoking the idea of a rap “Big Three.” But not a single song released since “Like That” lives up to the expectations each of these men stoked through their years-long Cold War. Nothing measures up to the base-level quality of “Control,” “Back to Back,” or “Stay Schemin.” Instead, we’re treated to two aging rappers squabbling over … who’s cornier? Or maybe it’s about who is or isn’t Kobe? Or even who should be able to buy Tupac’s ring at Sotheby’s for a million dollars?

Even the beef’s most damaging revelations are disingenuous at best—and outright craven at the worst. Drake’s faux-outrage over the account of Kendrick’s treatment of his partner doesn’t mean much when Drake was cosigning Chris Brown’s gang ties a few bars earlier and was caping for Tory Lanez to be freed a few months ago. Similarly, if Kendrick is so concerned with sexual assault and protecting young women from the OVO compound, why did he spend his last album crying about cancel culture and propping up Kodak Black?

Drake and Kendrick don’t have the politics to be doing all this. Is Drake wrong that Kendrick, “always rappin’ like you ’bout to get the slaves freed?” Not really. But also Drake stands for nothing and has never committed an interesting political thought to record in his life. And if Kendrick knows incriminating information about Drake, why has he withheld it until it was this advantageous? As with most hip-hop beefs, we’ve ended up where we were always destined to—men using women, wives, baby mothers, parents, and children in increasingly gross and depraved ways to satisfy their rabid egos.

The microaggressions, subliminals, and shots that got us to this moment date back to a time when GQ still had enough juice to terrorize rappers into dressing like Williamsburg hipsters . What person under 30 even recalls that Drake invited peers like Kendrick, Rocky, Cole, and Meek to open for him on tour in 2012 and then spent the next decade treating the aforementioned like his sons for taking him up on the offer? How many people still remember all the blog mainstays Kendrick shot at on 2013’s “Control”? If Drake is still upset because Compton’s resident good kid threatened to “tuck him into his pajamas clothes” during a BET cypher, there’s no helping my man. The only entities profiting from this scuffle are Universal Music Group, the Joe Budden extended podcast universe, a bunch of teenage streamers I refuse to Google, and the collection of rap publications that haven’t been nuked by private equity firms.

The most straightforward and generous read of this entire beef is that Drake and Kendrick are rappers lost to time. They’re formalists in a genre that’s moved past the tradition. They came up in a time when cosigns were necessary (Lil Wayne, Dr. Dre), radio runs were crucial, and albums still mattered. Drake belongs to a long lineage of rappers turned pop stars (e.g., LL Cool J, Nelly, 50 Cent), while Kendrick is marketed as a conscious alternative (e.g., Nas, pre-MAGA Kanye, Tupac). Even the duo would love you to believe this is Michael Jackson vs. Prince—numbers vs. “real” art.

Perhaps that’s why the beef feels so toothless. Drake and Kendrick aren’t fighting the same war; they’re two grown men arguing past one another because there’s no one left to challenge. One views dominance—via streaming numbers and celebrity—as inextricable from the art, while the other envisions himself as a purist responsible for upholding a grand tradition. And yet, each rapper has ended up in a similar place.

There’s very little compelling about two men who signed to major labels in their 20s debating who got extorted when the most obvious answer is both. Drake mocking Kendrick for his cringeworthy Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 features doesn’t mean much when he was spitting water-carrying lyrics like “Taylor Swift the only nigga that I ever rated” a year ago and starring in Apple commercials with the pop star. Similarly, can Kendrick really talk about Drake running to Yachty (the recovering “King of the Teens”) for swag, when he found his own nepo-version of the Atlanta rapper in Baby Keem?

At the time of publication, Kendrick is in the lead in this battle, even if that distinction feels hollow. Drake has dropped 13 projects in 13 years, compared to Kendrick’s six. Of course when Cornrow Kenneth descends from his Pulitzer perch to wrestle in the mud with the other aging degenerates it’s going to mean more. But Kendrick is also beating his rival in a way that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago.

When Drake triumphed over Meek Mill in 2015 it was because he understood the internet better than any of his peers. Meme culture was new and novel. The impact of “Hotline Bling” and the dancing Drake GIF apocalypse was still months away. Meek was having an argument about authenticity when his own label boss triumphed over 50 Cent years priors despite being outed as a correctional officer. A ghostwriter reveal and an alleged incident in which a T.I. associate pissed on Drake’s leg should’ve been enough for the Philadelphia rapper to eke out a win, but Meek wasn’t ready to accept that the internet (and by extension the nerds) won.

Almost eight years later, Kendrick has rendered Drake’s biggest advantage obsolete. The meme economy got a reality TV show host elected to the White House and almost toppled American democracy in the process. Our relationship in 2024 to hyper-online celebrities is no longer cute and interesting. It’s not just that Kendrick has been funnier—“is it the braids?” is an all-timer—it’s that he’s less accessible than Drake. Unless you have the comedic timing of Rick Ross, taunting another man over IG stories is never going to be as cool as someone who refuses to use the internet. The quality of the most recent diss tracks became irrelevant the minute Kendrick outmaneuvered Drake by releasing “Meet the Grahams” about an hour after “Family Matters” dropped. (And especially after Drake was left deflecting Kendrick’s “hiding another child” accusations on Instagram instead of taking a victory lap for his own track.)

Barring a RICO case or something even more horrific—and potentially verifiable—coming to light, nothing released in the past two months will help or hinder either man’s legacy. Unless Drake and Kendrick are half as sick, perverted, abusive, and morally repugnant as these records claim, the most likely outcome is that UMG will cut both a massive check for the streaming boom this animosity fueled. But this is a post-truth beef. Kendrick stans will believe that Drake has a kindergarten class of unclaimed sons and daughters because it’s funny and convenient. And unless a more reputable source than The OVO Post finds that Kendrick does have a history of physically assaulting women, the chances of it impacting his sales and critical stature are practically nonexistent.

Cover-art Ozempic receipts aside, most of the scars from this tantrum will be reserved for the family and friends who have now been immortalized in rushed and harried songs that have already begun to lose their luster. And the only rapper who has sustained real damage thus far did it to himself, and his stans are still convinced rap’s Charlie Brown will kick the football next time. But Drake and Kendrick aren’t held to the same standard as other artists. They aren’t just the most popular rappers of their generation—one could argue they’re among the most consequential musicians of the 21st century. A Canadian child actor and Tupac’s shortest stan went from the Zippyshare trenches to the last remaining superstars of a genre that’s going the way of rock. The perch seems lonely—two rappers bold enough to use their government names unable to connect with the only other person in the world who could relate. Call it poetic justice .

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TikTok’s Boss Goes From Reserved Tech Exec to Met Gala Chair

With the company facing a ban in the U.S., Shou Chew is expected to join Zendaya, Bad Bunny and Anna Wintour on the red carpet.

Shou Chew and Vivian Kao stand pose by side in formal wear on a red carpet. A cluster of photographers stands in the background.

By Jacob Bernstein , Madison Malone Kircher and Sapna Maheshwari

Although the Met Gala serves as a branding event for Vogue, it has long accepted sponsorships from the tech giants that have threatened the very survival of legacy media publications.

Jeff Bezos , the Amazon founder, appeared as the ball’s honorary chair in 2012. Four years later, when Apple was a Met Gala sponsor, its chief executive, Tim Cook , showed up in tux and tails. And Instagram supplied cash in 2022.

The 2024 event is sponsored, in part, by TikTok, the social media goliath whose future looks murkier than that of Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker and other magazines, which has laid off employees and shuttered or sold off some of its publications in recent years.

TikTok found itself in jeopardy last month, when President Biden signed a bill that gave ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, nine months to sell off the app or face a ban in the United States. In the wake of that political firestorm, Shou Chew, the 41-year-old chief executive of TikTok, is expected to join dozens of celebrity guests at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan on Monday evening.

He was selected by Anna Wintour as an honorary chair for the benefit, which raises tens of millions of dollars each year for the museum’s Costume Institute. Ms. Wintour, the global editorial director of Condé Nast and the editor in chief of Vogue, has run the event for a quarter of a century, using her sense of celebrity and fashion synergy to create a splashy showcase of some of the world’s most influential people, a group that has come to include more social media influencers and fewer one-name stars (Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna) in recent years.

TikTok may be loathed by Washington lawmakers who have raised concerns about the Chinese government’s access to its 170 millions users in the United States, but it remains an undeniable cultural force in American life , especially among Gen Z. The app is also a fashion force, and the Met Gala provides many TikTok creators with plenty of fodder. That makes the little-known Mr. Chew at least as powerful as the much more recognizable co-chairs of this year’s party — Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Ms. Wintour herself.

Along with TikTok, the luxury fashion brand Loewe is a sponsor; its creative director, Jonathan Anderson, will serve alongside Mr. Chew as an honorary chair.

TikTok declined to reveal its financial contribution to the star-studded event. In previous years, a sponsor is known to have kicked in roughly $5 million .

Mr. Bezos and Mr. Cook were known quantities when they greeted the likes of Rihanna and Beyoncé at previous Met Galas. Mr. Chew, on the other hand, is likely to go unrecognized by most of the gawkers who line up behind the barricades along Fifth Avenue, many of whom may be making TikTok videos on their phones.

A Charm Offensive

Starting in 2022, when U.S. lawmakers were turning up the heat on TikTok, the company changed its public relations strategy. Instead of keeping a low profile, it embarked on a charm offensive, with the fresh-faced Shou (pronounced “show”) Chew front and center.

As TikTok plowed millions into its lobbying efforts, Mr. Chew met with the heads of think tanks in Washington and global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. At The New York Times’s DealBook conference in November 2022, he fielded questions about national security concerns while wearing jeans, a casual blue blazer over a white T-shirt, and white sneakers that looked fresh out of the box.

His expected appearance at the Met Gala — once a staid affair for New York blue bloods that has become an East Coast Oscars on Ms. Wintour’s watch — can be viewed as part of TikTok’s shift in how it presents itself to the public. But this time around, instead of sitting down with those who have influence over matters of policy, the TikTok chief will be standing on a red carpet before a squadron of photographers.

Mr. Chew, who declined through a TikTok representative to be interviewed for this article, grew up in Singapore. That is where he has his main residence with his wife, Vivian Kao, 42, a onetime Goldman Sachs associate, and their three children. In 2021, the couple spent more than $60 million on a house in the Queen Astrid Park area of the island nation, according to The Business Times of Singapore.

The family is intensely private. A rare glimpse of Ms. Kao and one of their children appeared in a video that Mr. Chew posted on TikTok from a recent Taylor Swift concert at Singapore National Stadium.

Mr. Chew has said that his father worked in construction and that his mother was a bookkeeper. After attending one of Singapore’s top secondary schools, he completed two years of mandatory national service in the Singapore Armed Forces, where he was an officer. From there, he enrolled at University College London.

After graduating in 2006 with a degree in economics, he took a job in the London office of Goldman Sachs. That was where he met Nathalie du Preez, who remains a friend of his.

“We sat on the same floor, and he was walking past,” Ms. du Preez recalled in a phone interview.

In an early conversation, they found that they had both applied to Harvard Business School. They took coffee breaks together at Leonidas Chocolates around the corner from the office.

When they arrived at Harvard in the fall of 2008, Ms. du Preez and Mr. Chew shared a ride with a group of people bound for Ikea. They were just two of the many students on the lookout for reasonably priced home décor items.

“He’s come a long way since then,” she said.

Ms. du Preez and several other Harvard Business School classmates interviewed for this article recalled Mr. Chew as someone who was funny, although they could not recall a specific funny thing he had said. They also agreed that he was razor-sharp, but offered no particular examples of his acuity.

They described him as curious about pop culture and sports, saying he was a fan of Manchester United and recalling that he had attended a David Guetta show at the Roxy in Boston. They mentioned that he liked video games, including the soccer game FIFA , and noted that he was the tidiest of his roommates.

Mr. Chew met the woman who would become his wife, Ms. Kao, when they were both at Harvard Business School. A graduate of Wellesley College, she had grown up in Bethesda, Md., and is Taiwanese American.

Mr. Chew and Ms. Kao found themselves in business school as the financial crisis arrived. “We called it the ‘just in time’ admissions class, because the markets crashed that fall,” Caren Kelleher, a fellow classmate, said in an interview.

Although it was a time when big banks were failing, some of Mr. Chew’s fellow business students were surprised when he took a summer internship at Facebook, rather than going into finance. The social media company was only five years old and years away from going public.

His classmates later realized he had made a prescient choice, according to Jean Abillama, who lived across the street from Mr. Chew in Cambridge, Mass. “He was seeing this big wave of tech and e-commerce, the tech wave coming to light,” she said.

Master’s degree in hand, he joined DST Global, a venture capital firm led by Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire who was on his way to becoming one of the most important private investors in Silicon Valley companies . Mr. Chew served as Mr. Milner’s point man in China, where he helped lead investments in Alibaba and the Chinese ride-sharing service DiDi.

During that time, Mr. Milner provided a reported $10 million in financing to a news-aggregation app founded by the entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, who developed a rapport with Mr. Chew. The app would become ByteDance. Mr. Chew also helped with DST Global’s investment in Xiaomi, one of China’s largest phone manufacturers.

In 2013, Mr. Chew and Ms. Kao were married. Two years later, Mr. Chew left DST to become the chief financial officer of Xiaomi, which he helped take public in 2018.

He Got the Job

Mr. Chew was named the chief financial officer of ByteDance in March 2021. He ascended to the top TikTok job two months later. In November of that year, he stepped down as ByteDance’s chief financial officer.

TikTok’s previous chief executive, Kevin Mayer , had resigned after less than four months on the job, citing the increasing pressure put on the company by the Trump administration because of its ties to China.

The opposition of U.S. lawmakers did not abate during the presidency of Joseph R. Biden Jr. As Mr. Chew worked to keep lawmakers at bay, he found time to attend the 2022 Met Gala with Ms. Kao. He went all-out formal, in traditional white tie and tails; she wore a resplendent floral-patterned gown.

Nowadays, Ms. Kao runs Tamarind Global, a family office that, according to its website, “manages investments and philanthropy” for a “Singaporean family.” Its shareholders include Mr. Chew and a trust linked to Mr. Chew and Ms. Kao, according to public records.

There has been debate about whether Mr. Chew — who travels with a small security detail — is the controlling force at TikTok. Company sources have told The Times that major strategic decisions were handled by Mr. Yiming , among others.

Mr. Chew displayed a sense of fun in his TikTok handle — @shou.time — which riffs on the pronunciation of his first name. But the account did not have much of a following until March 2023 , when he was grilled by Congress.

Under aggressive questioning , Mr. Chew was made to repeat that he was a citizen of Singapore, not China. He went on to stress that TikTok was not controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and noted that his wife is an American, telling his questioners, “By the way, she was just born a few miles away from here.”

That was the appearance that catapulted him into public consciousness. Before the hearing, he had fewer than 20,000 TikTok followers. He now has 3.9 million.

Users posted clips highlighting belligerent questions from lawmakers. A number of TikTokers even called Mr. Chew “zaddy,” a slang term that refers to an older, attractive man.

On Nov. 8, 2023, TikTok announced that it would serve as “the lead sponsor” of this year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit, the formal name of the Met Gala. Days after the announcement, Vogue Singapore published a rare sit-down interview with Mr. Chew.

He was photographed in Louis Vuitton jeans and a velvet Brunello Cucinelli blazer, and he spoke benignly about his mandatory service in Singapore’s armed forces in “the jungles of Brunei” and doing diaper duty for a third time. “There’s quite an age gap between this kid and the previous kid,” he said in the interview. “My wife and I are relearning everything, like changing diapers.”

Along with other top tech executives, Mr. Chew was called before Congress again in January. He stressed that he did not live in China and said he was not a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

While turning down interview requests from news organizations digging into TikTok’s Chinese ties, Mr. Chew gave an interview to another Condé Nast publication, Wired, during a TikTok music festival in Mesa, Ariz., in December 2023.

The Wired article largely kept the focus on TikTok’s pop-culture footprint while seeming to defend it against its American critics by arguing that “a thinly veiled anti-Chinese xenophobia has become a reliable part of the U.S. political playbook.” It also included an advance plug for Mr. Chew’s appearance at the Met Gala.

“It’s very cultural,” Mr. Chew told Wired. “Fashion is an incredibly important part of TikTok. Louis Vuitton has 12 million followers on our app.” (The fashion house now has more than 13 million TikTok followers.)

Ms. du Preez, the Goldman Sachs colleague and Harvard classmate, said she was not surprised that Mr. Chew would be interested in teaming up with Vogue and Ms. Wintour, particularly at a time when the company he leads is trying to show that it is not controlled by China.

“The Met Gala is an incredibly well-followed evening,” she said. “In terms of making friends in the U.S., I think it would make sense to do that, and everyone who is going will have a TikTok account.”

Not that she expected him to pick out a memorable ensemble.

“I have no doubt Vivian will dress him in something beautiful,” Ms. du Preez said. “And at this point he can get a lot of advice from anyone about what to wear. I’m sure Anna Wintour can give him tips.”

For the record, Mr. Chew is slated to wear something from Ralph Lauren , the American designer whose fondness for red, white and blue has made him a natural choice to outfit U.S. Olympics teams in patriotic garb.

Ryan Mac contributed reporting. Kirsten Noyes contributed research.

Jacob Bernstein is a reporter for the Styles desk. In addition to writing profiles of fashion designers, artists and celebrities, he has focused much of his attention on L.G.B.T. issues, philanthropy and the world of furniture design. More about Jacob Bernstein

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