Ye, formerly known as Kanye West has done one of the most dangerous things he could possibly do. A one-on-one interview. Amid the Yeezy creator igniting problems with several of the industry’s top tastemakers, he went one-on-one with DJ Akademiks.
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Kanye Shows More Support For Diddy
One of the topics that came up during Ye’s one-on-one with Akademiks was incarcerated music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs is currently being held without bail. After being picked up by the feds for his connection to a federal trafficking investigation.
As Diddy’s trial start date of May 12 looms, Ye says he sees a lot of himself in the shamed hip-hop legend.
“I really saw the comparison of me and Puff with the Diageo and the Adidas situation. Regardless of whether they could have locked me up for taxes, they wasn’t playing fair. It’s like, ‘You leaving? You leaving with nothing. We have to destroy you.’ Even though they used us to tap into the culture and make money off of Black people and people who enjoy black culture,” he said
“I related to Puff. And then they pulled out a video with him and Cassie from 10 years ago, and then it made everyone be like, ‘Oh, Puff’s a woman beater! He’s the Devil, he needs to be in jail.’ Meanwhile, I don’t know somebody that hasn’t gotten into an altercation with their girl at one point.”
In the beginning of the interview, when Kanye opens the door for Akademiks, he is sporting a shirt from Diddy’s “Sean John” brand. Moments later, Kanye referred to the Bad Boy founder as his “Twin.”
“Puff is more like my twin,” he added. I asked Puff back in the day like, ‘How you just made it through all of the Suge Knight shit [and everything else]?’ He was like, ‘I’m the craziest one, n***a!’ We’re family, we can get into it.”
