Kanye West may be one of the most successful and influential rappers of the last 20 years, but his powers aren’t what they used to be — according to Charlamagne Tha God.
Speaking on comedian Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant podcast, the Breakfast Club host slammed Kanye for attempting to insert himself into the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar and called him musically irrelevant.
“Nobody cares about Kanye rapping,” he said. “If Kanye had done this 10 years ago, it’s like, Ooh shit, Kanye inserted himself in the beef!’
“Nobody gives a fuck about Kanye rapping in 2024. Especially when the guys that are rapping are the rappers you actually want to hear from.”
Charlamagne Tha God says that nobody cares about Kanye West rapping anymore
“if Kanye would’ve done this 10 years ago… (insert himself in the Drake & Kendrick beef) its like OH SH*T…. (but) nobody gives a f*ck about Kanye rapping in 2024”
– via Flagrant Podcast pic.twitter.com/SxVxGsnAAq
— SOUND (@itsavibe) May 29, 2024
Despite Charlamagne’s comments, Kanye scored his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in over a decade earlier this year with “Carnival,” from his joint album with Ty Dolla $ignVultures 1.
It marked his first chart-topper as a lead artist since 2007 when he reached the summit with “Stronger,” which has since been certified diamond.
Vultures 1 also topped the Billboard 200 following its release in February but has since fallen to No. 95 on the chart, while other semi-recent rap releases like Future and Metro Boomin‘s We Don’t Trust You, Travis Scott‘s Utopia and Drake’s For All the Dogs have held firm in the top 25.
Charlamagne Tha God previously criticized Kanye after he dissed Drake and J. Cole on a remix of Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That.”
“Kanye West is the leader of the legion of lame. What a hating-ass human,” he said on The Breakfast Club in April. “What type of man sits around saying, ‘We were all energized by the elimination’ of another man?
“This man is so miserable and has never dealt with whatever hurt and pain he’s feeling that he just wants to project it onto other people. I don’t even want Kendrick to respond no more because on ‘Like That,’ he clowned Drake and Cole for cliquing up.”
He continued: “Don’t be a part of the legion of lame, Kendrick. Metro, what are you doing? All of y’all should be running from Kanye West. Have you not read The 48 Laws of Power? Avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
“Kanye done made the whole thing corny. It was entertaining until he brought his jealous, envious ass into the picture.”
Charlamagne also revealed that Kanye edited out disparaging comments about Drake and Virgil Abloh in their 2018 interview.
“When I interviewed him back in the day, he was hating on Drake and Virgil then talking about how they took the culture from him,” he said. “And this was when he was up and he was still hating. He actually edited that part of the interview out when he was hating on Drake and Virgil.”
Despite taking more shots at Drake in an interview with Justin Laboy last month, Kanye has remained silent since the 6 God’s beef with Kendrick escalated with diss songs like “Not Like Us” and “Family Matters.”
