Kanye West has had many eye-raising moments on social media, and one in all them was when he lashed out at fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa on Twitter (now X) in 2016.
Khalifa, 38, lately touched on the incident throughout a dialog with Benny Blanco and Lil Dicky for his or her Pals Maintain Secrets and techniques podcast after he was requested about his tweet that triggered Kanye, 48, to go on that rant, Complicated reported.
Kanye went on the Twitter rant in January 2016 after Khalifa informed him to “hit this kk and grow to be your self.” Khalifa, on the time, had registered his displeasure with Kanye’s determination to call his album Waves. Khalifa felt that the time period “Waves” was affiliated to Max B, and Kanye was biting the phrase from the then-incarcerated rapper.
“[Ye] was making an album, and he was going to name it Waves,” Khalifa recalled. “I publicly stated that no one must be making an album known as Waves as a result of Max B is in jail, and that’s his phrase. And I used to be like, ‘No person was f*cking with Max B. Don’t make an album known as Waves… Acknowledge him, don’t take his f*cking phrase and attempt to revolutionize it.’”
“So [Ye] acquired mad at me, which he ought to have as a result of I used to be coming at him,” the Black and Yellow rapper added. “He stated one thing on Twitter and I used to be like, ‘Simply hit the KK and loosen up.’ And he was like, ‘Don’t ever disrespect my spouse, blah, blah, blah,’” Wiz stated in reference to Kanye pondering that he had talked about his then-wife Kim Kardashian.
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“And I used to be like, ‘KK is Khalifa Kush. It’s weed, idiot. Simply loosen up.’ After which everyone simply went loopy after that as a result of he went on a complete rant,” Khalifa continued. The 38-year-old additionally emphasised that Kardashian was by no means known as KK.
However Kanye went after Khalifa in 27 tweets, as he known as out Amber Rose, who’s Khalifa’s ex-girlfriend, and their son, Sebastian. In one in all his tweets, Kanye informed Khalifa that “nobody I do know has ever listened to one in all your albums all through.” The 48-year-old additionally referred to Rose, who can be his ex-girlfriend, as a “stripper,” per Complicated.
Kanye lashing out at Khalifa got here after the previous stated he has going to call his 2016 album Waves. Kanye had initially stated that the album in query was going to be titled Swish. Khalifa subsequently took difficulty with Kanye’s determination to rename the album Waves. However the 48-year-old in the end named his album The Lifetime of Pablo.
“Max B is the wavy one. He created the wave. There isn’t any wave with out him,” Khalifa tweeted on the time.
Max B was handed a 75-year jail sentence in 2009 after he was discovered responsible of armed theft, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and homicide. His conviction was, nonetheless, vacated in 2016, and his sentence was trimmed down to twenty years. He gained his freedom in November 2025.
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