Accused of “Betrayal” By Drake, Kanye West in Hot Waters Yet Again on Mike Tyson’s Podcast

Mike Tyson, on his podcast hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson, hosts a lot of different celebrities from different fields. Recently, singer, songwriter, and actor Ne Yo appeared as a guest on an episode of the podcast. At the beginning of the episode, Ne Yo gave a brief description of how he was able to reach where he is now. Then the topic strays toward Ne Yo’s collaboration with Kanye West. It was then Ne Yo revealed a surprising thing about Kanye West.

This came a month after rapper Drake, reignited his beef with Kanye West with his new single. Drake released his first solo single in 2023, titled “Search & Rescue”. It includes an excerpt from a conversation between Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner about the former’s divorce from Kanye West. The single cover art also features Drake and a woman who resembles Kardashian, wearing black helmets. This move is seen by many as intentional trolling against West.

Previously, Drake also did a verse on Trippie Redd‘s “Betrayal”, where he indirectly referenced Kanye West and Pusha T‘s ages, along with their album release delays. He rapped, “All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know/Forty-five, forty-four, let it go/Ye ain’t changin’ s**t for me, it’s set in stone”. Consequently, took to Twitter and wrote, “F**k a Betrayal. It’s the disrespect for me, dawg.”

In the last year, West has not mentioned Drake frequently, possibly due to his entanglement in multiple controversies. Nevertheless, despite the lack of public interaction, tensions between the two rappers persist. The ongoing social media disputes among their associates suggest that the longstanding feud between these two hip-hop icons remains unresolved.

Ne Yo shares how Kanye West kicked him off the record

Ne Yo was talking about how he feels like he is “living the dream”. Tyson then pointed out that Ne Yo has worked with so many artists throughout his career. He goes on to ask which among these artists, he found to be his favorite one. Ne Yo then gave the question some thinking and said, “It’s hard to pick a favorite”. Tyson interrupts him and asked him about the song that he did with Kanye.

Ne Yo then told Mike that, Kanye did the remix of his song “Because of You”. He said, “He jumped in that remix for me, that was real cool”. Ne Yo then went further and told Tyson what he described as a “funny story” about the time he was supposed to do a song with Kanye. He revealed that he was supposed to do a collaboration with Kanye on his song “Good Life”. He shared that Kanye took him off and put T-Pain on the record.

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Ne Yo went further and said, “I wasn’t mad, it was what it was”. He then joked about how it was the first time he got to work with Ye. He described Ye as an “interesting cat”. Tyson agreed to the statement, he has previously been very honest about his opinion of Kanye. What do you think about the situation? Do share your thoughts in the comments.

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