There’s a lot to unpack in “Championships,” the studio album Meek Mill released Thursday night. But many folks immediately zeroed in on a Jay-Z verse on the track “What’s Free,” which named Kanye West.
Jay-Z and West have had a long and complicated relationship. West first became big on Jay-Z’s label. They’ve collaborated together. There’s also been plenty of tension.
More recently, West landed in a series of controversies this year after he wore a “Make America Great Again” hat on TMZ Live as he said slavery was a choice. Since then, he apologized for the slavery comments and doubled-down on his support for President Trump, mostly in the form of a rambling, bizarre Oval Office visit.
“It was something about putting this hat on, it made me feel like Superman,” West told Trump about that red MAGA hat. West has since said he’s distancing himself from politics after a dust-up regarding designing logos for a pro-Trump activist’s organization.
Kanye’s public controversies have rankled many of his fans and his famous friends. For Jay-Z’s part, he has not publicly commented on the drama, but he has clearly been on the opposite side of the political spectrum. So when he spoke about West and Trump in “What’s Free,” people took note.
“No red hat, don’t Michael and Prince me and Ye / They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA, uh,” Jay-Z raps. Then, after rapping about not being a house slave, he adds, “my house like a resort, my house bigger than yours” and later, “enjoy your chains, what’s your employer name with the hairpiece?"
Source : By Elahe Izadi
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