Kanye West Claims Kendrick Lamar Was Almost Featured On ‘Donda’

Ye has made his feelings for Kendrick Lamar very clear these last few months, but, per a recent revelation, he wanted to work with the Compton rapper just a few years ago. He recently claimed that K. Dot was almost part of his 2021 album Donda.

In another series of random tweets, the artist formerly known as Kanye West showed love to Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith for his birthday. “I just saw Top Dawg had the same birthday as Hitler Man that’s sooo fire,” he began on X. “Man Top Dawg has always been such a good dude great energy and it fell upon my heart to bring this up amidst all of my Kendrick slander And it’s love to Kendrick and all his people.”

He continued, bringing up a gripe he had with the Pulitzer Prize winner. “Kendrick could have sent that Donda verse in though when I needed him,” he wrote with an eye emoji before taking accountability on letting a few other rappers down. “And I should have sent in my verses to Keem and to Don Toliver when they asked me and I apologize to both of them for that.”

Ye pivoted to giving himself praise in the middle of the lengthy tweet. “All that said I am King I am the leader as ordained by God,” he wrote. “Don’t get [none] of the Cousin Song Red Hat Mental Health Wild tweets sh*t f**ked up And Wack know… Kendrick or nobody could beat me at nothing.” Later in the tweet, he took another shot at Jay-Z. “Jay Z took the deal with them people and you know that he ain’t finna help us get no where but under they wings and on they fields,” he wrote. “God gonna use me to bring the prosperity I feel it and see it.”

Of course, this comes confusingly after the Chicago producer has been bombing on Kendrick Lamar for months, mainly since he headlined the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX halftime show. When Playboi Carti put out his new album, Music, West said that he did not like hearing Lamar and Carti work together, on top of being upset that he was not featured on the album. In his recent interview with DJ Akademiks, he expressed his issue with the GNX rapper calling Drake a pedophile and being used as an industry pawn.

He also believes that the music industry is trying to replace him with K. Dot. “Look man when I was dropping Graduation I had the whole building behind me too. That’s the way this profession is,” he wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “He got 24 Grammies. They are strategically trying to erase what I did and earned with ni**as that won’t even be remembered 100 years from now. I’m by faaaarrr the most important artist of our lifetime. Everyone that works with the Super Bowl and Grammies can suck my d**k foreevvveeeerrr ni**a.”