Kanye West‘s spate of antisemitic feedback final yr might have been motivated by his sophisticated relationship with Drake, in keeping with Malik Yusef.

The US rapper and poet made the declare whereas showing on the Rap Right this moment With Francis podcast on Monday (September 25), when he spoke about West – who now goes by Ye – and his controversial feedback in regards to the Jewish group.

“I feel they had been for Drake,” he mentioned (by way of HipHopDX). “That’s what I feel. I don’t know who else you’d say that was. I’ve by no means straight labored with Drake ’trigger Kanye requested me to not.

“He mentioned, ‘Please don’t go work straight with Drake.’ I mentioned, ‘Okay.’ ‘Trigger Kanye’s brother, however I like Drake too, although. He requested Travis [Scott] the identical factor, however Travis mentioned no.”

Yusef additionally questioned if West’s antisemitic remarks had been respectable. “He’s saying he’s attacked by the Jews – I don’t fucking know. I see him with Jewish individuals on a regular basis. One evening, when he was going by that rant, he was in a automobile with a Jewish dude, so I don’t know, man. I feel it’s all leisure. He’s an entertainer, he’s born to be an entertainer, and I feel that’s what this shit is.”

The artist additionally shared that he felt Ye didn’t have any actual purpose to assault Drake, saying: “I feel that Drake loves Kanye, and that Kanye hates that Drake loves him.

“I don’t really feel like him being offended with Drake has any credence, as a result of Drake has been nothing however form and good and scholar of Kanye, so I don’t know the place the anger comes from.

“’He took my fashion!’ Okay, cool. Drake takes everyone’s fashion. To me, Drake has his personal distinctive fashion – it’s a hodgepodge of a number of totally different kinds.”

West mentioned that Drake is the “biggest rapper ever” in October final yr, which got here after the pair reconciled in 2021 after years of buying and selling barbs, with the duo placing on the Free Larry Hoover profit live performance.

In July this yr, it emerged that West as soon as mentioned that he believes Jewish individuals had been “holding him again”, in keeping with an interview in a brand new documentary. It adopted a spate of anti-semitic feedback which started when he tweeted that he was going to go “demise con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE” again in October 2022.

He has since been broadly condemned by many figures within the leisure world, in addition to a number of political figures and organisations that symbolize Jewish communities, and has misplaced model offers with Balenciaga, Adidas and Hole and had his honorary diploma from The Faculty Of The Artwork Institute Of Chicago rescinded.

Again in March, West then appeared to backtrack on his feedback by saying he “likes Jewish individuals once more” after watching Jonah Hill in 21 Bounce Avenue.