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Key Takeaways:
- Child Cudi says Kanye West’s “vile” feedback about Virgil Abloh had been the ultimate straw of their friendship.
- Regardless of previous reconciliation makes an attempt, Cudi says West broke his coronary heart “again and again.”
- He displays on the artistic freedom they as soon as shared, saying it’s going to by no means occur once more.
Child Cudi says he’s executed attempting to sort things with Kanye West. Talking with “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday (Aug. 13), the “Day ‘N’ Nite (nightmare)” artist opened up about why he walked away from their friendship for good after the Chicago rapper’s “vile” feedback about Virgil Abloh.
“It’s a tragic factor,” Cudi stated when requested about their falling out. When CBS Information’ Anthony Mason pressed him on how, he defined, “The liberty that we skilled once we had been creating, it simply won’t ever occur ever once more. That’s the heartbreaking facet of issues.” It’s a sentiment we’ve heard from a number of of Ye’s former collaborators, most lately from Pusha T.
“I had a whole lot of issues in my life break my coronary heart, and I’ve been capable of survive and transfer previous it,” he continued. “I feel [West] has [broken mine] again and again, a number of occasions.” Regardless of a handful of reconciliation makes an attempt over time, the KIDS SEE GHOSTS collaborators couldn’t make it stick for higher or worse.
“We’ve tried since then, however we all the time have a falling out,” Cudi admitted. He then pointed particularly to Ye’s remarks about Abloh, who died in 2021 after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma. “He stated some issues that there’s simply no getting back from. The feedback that he’s had about Virgil Abloh are simply a number of the most evil, vile, disturbing, f**ked up issues I’ve heard.”
Cudi was presumably referring to Ye’s “f**okay Virgil” tweet from February, which he posted amid a spree of anti-Semitic rants. In that exact same publish, the “Flashing Lights” rapper additionally referred to as out “any of those different n**fuel that labored for me, [then] used me, then went in opposition to me.”
In line with Cudi, it was the ultimate straw. “Each time he took a dig at Virgil, it simply made me tremendous indignant,” he defined. “Virgil was an angel to everybody. There’s no getting back from that, man. Like, I’m executed with you, and it breaks my coronary heart as a result of I liked Kanye.”