Keep this tab open and go get yourself a drink. Hot, cold, doesn’t really matter. When you’ve got it, sit down, settle in, and get ready to feast your eyes on one of the most bizarre Twitter wars of all time.
Think Kim, Kanye, Kanye’s charity – now owned by his (former) friend and fellow rapper Rhymefest, Drake, Pusha-T and more. This really is quite something.
So. Now you’re settled down, let’s begin. This whole farcical festival began with an Instagram post by Pusha-T, a rapper signed to Kanye’s record label, GOOD music. The tweet in question was promoting his new album which features Drake diss track, Infrared.
In the track, Pusha-T raps:
It was written like Nas but it came from Quentin / At the mercy of a game where the culture’s missing.
The line referenced Quentin Miller – a ghost writer who’s rumoured to have written many of Drake’s songs – for which he’s been criticised by many in the past, reports Buzzfeed.
Part two. Drake hits back instantaneously with his own diss track against Pusha-T, in which he threatens to send an invoice to GOOD music. He then did. A $100,000 invoice for ‘promotional assistance and career reviving’.
Not only that, but in the same diss track, Drake also hit out at Kanye saying:
So if you rebuke me for working with someone else on a couple of Vs / What do you really think of the n**** that’s making your beats?
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.
Said lyrics seem to suggest Drake wrote numerous lines for Kanye so what does it matter if Quentin wrote some for him?
Now, all of this was said in the past two weeks but now we have much more fuel to add to this preposterous fire.
The invoice Drake sent Pusha-T prompted Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith, the co-founder of Donda’s House – a charity named after Kanye’s late mother – to ask Drake for some help to fund the not-for-profit charity.
Rhymefest claimed despite the charity, (which aims to help the youth of Chicago, being set up by Kanye and named after his mother), Kanye had distanced himself from it and even said ‘f*ck the youth of Chicago’.
Check the tweet out for yourself:
I’m asking @Drake to help the part of Chicago Kanye has Abandoned! Please contact @DondasHouse
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) May 26, 2018
@Drake when G.O.O.D. Music sends the money they owe you, will you please help us rebuild Kanye’s mothers house for the youth of Chicago. I spoke to Kanye about it. His response was “fuck the youth of Chicago”
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) May 26, 2018
And then, of course, Kim Kardashian just had to get herself involved, posting a series of tweets:
U haven’t been right since u got kicked out of the studio in Hawaii wearing fake Yeezy’s @RHYMEFEST ? You’re over levergenging Kanye’s name & asked Kanye to donate money to u so stop w your fake community politics & lies. Truth is you haven’t been able to sustain the foundation
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
I saw you at our studio a few weeks ago so why didn’t you bring this up then @RHYMEFEST ? You were trying to get Kanye to listen to your sub par beats. You have the audacity to use Kanye’s mom name to try to shead a negative light on Kanye.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
You didn’t say this when Kanye paid you up front then you disappeared during Pablo #RealFriends @RHYMEFEST
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
Fuck i spelled leveraging wrong. Typing while pissed will do this to you ?
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
You better believe I will make it my mission to take Donda’s House from you and let my children run it the way it should be run! @RHYMEFEST
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
Oh and lastly your flight cancelled to Wyoming. You thought you were really worthy to be on this album ???
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
Sorry to all of my followers for flooding my timeline I know you have no idea who Rhymefest is.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 26, 2018
But of course, people weren’t too happy with Kim for calling out Rhymefest’s ‘fake Yeezys’ and claiming nobody knows him – despite him asking for money for a charity:
rhymefest: kanye pls help us run the foundation named after ur late mother and help the youth of chicago
kim kardashian: haha ur yeezys r fake lol— hi (@jrdnts) May 27, 2018
Kanye on TMZ: WHAT ABOUT BLACK ON BLACK CRIME IN CHICAGO!!
Rhymefest: Hey can you help out with the charity that is named after your mother in south side Chicago that you tend to take credit for?
Kim Kardashian: ….your Yeezys are fake
— Khadija (@KHNooli) May 27, 2018
chrissy teigen was egging kim kardashion on for dissing rhymefest. the same rhymefest who co-wrote "glory", a song which won her husband an academy award three years ago. everything is funny.
— effie, we all got pain. (@itssnaz_) May 27, 2018
Nobody even knows who you are RhymeFest.
But #NeverForget: pic.twitter.com/GA6Ute4sHB
— Shelby Ivey Christie (@bronze_bombSHEL) May 27, 2018
RHYMEFEST is an ACADEMY AWARD WINNER and a GRAMMY AWARD WINNER and WROTE your husbands best song lyrics and spends his days helping his community… WHO ARE YOU? You're dad was OJ's lawyer and you banged Brandy's little brother. lol. I think Rhymefest got this. hahah https://t.co/TjWvvNkZmG
— R.A. the Rugged Man (@RAtheRuggedMan) May 27, 2018
So let me get this straight:
Kanye is broke, but y’all made fun of Rhymefest for having knockoff shoes
— de bleck penta (@fivefifths) May 27, 2018
Rhymefest himself also responded – very professionally indeed – in a letter addressing all of her points stating that personally, he doesn’t care if people don’t know him, that he was personally mentored by Donda, that Kim has never had any involvement in the charity, and that Kanye quite happily takes praise for the charity’s work, despite himself having nothing to do with it.
Hey @KimKardashian good to hear from you. Here’s my response pic.twitter.com/dWvwZfr1b5
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) May 27, 2018
Then, out of nowhere, Donda’s House responded claiming they’d decided to change their name after Kim’s outburst:
Please read the attached final statement regarding the future of @DondasHouse, effective immediately: @kanyewest & @KimKardashian. pic.twitter.com/aNVWbJ1h49
— Donda's House, Inc. (@DondasHouse) May 27, 2018
A second statement by the charity also claimed:
We ask that as you boycott and protest Kanye West, that you not forget that we are a non-profit organisation that, like other non-profits, needs donations, corporate support, and volunteers.
We do not want your rejection of Kanye West, to be a rejection of Dr Donda West and the thousands of lives she impacted including her own son.
And then Kim responded again:
Let me break this all the way down …
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 27, 2018
Kanye and Donda started a charity called Loop Dreams. When Donda passed, they changed the name to Donda’s House. Kanye paid Rhymefest a salary to run it.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 27, 2018
After several years of lack of performance from the organization and Kanye going through personal financial issues, he could no longer fund salaries. Rhymefest asked to take it over and Kanye agreed with no financial strings attached.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 27, 2018
Kanye gave his “friend” an opportunity to run an organization on his own. So now that Kanye is being publicly shamed for not being involved makes no sense and, at this exact time, just seems very calculated.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 27, 2018
I have and will always applaud any efforts to give back to the community. To fight for justice and to help uplift the youth. But I will never tolerate someone who was close to Kanye who attempts to use his late mother’s name to publicly shame him while pretending to do good.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 27, 2018
I will always ride for my man!
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 27, 2018
To say this all got out of hand has got to be a contender for understatement of the year.
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