Making sense of West, Drake’s wild dispute

All of the lights are on Kanye West and Drake after a heated dispute between the rap stars spilled into the public.

West unleashed dozens of tweets directed at his past collaborator on Thursday, including some claiming Drake had “threatened” him and that he owed him an apology for mentioning his line of Yeezy shoes in a song.

The online mayhem began with West sharing a screenshot of a text he’d received, apparently from someone he works with, that reads, “Drake sent in a clearance request for Say What’s Real. Do you wanna clear?”

Say What’s Real is a 2009 song by Drake that samples West’s track Say You Will, which would explain why Drake would need to request clearance from West to release it.

Clearly, the request didn’t set with West.

“Been trying to meet with you for 6 months bro,” West wrote in one of the earlier tweets of his outburst. “You sneak dissing on trav records and texting Kris talking bout how’s the family.”

His mention of “Kris” appears to refer to West’s mother-in-law Kris Jenner, while “Trav” would refer to Travis Scott, a rapper who has collaborated with both West and Drake and is in a relationship with Jenner’s daughter Kylie.

West also seemed to take issue with Drake rapping about Kanye’s popular sneakers, the Yeezy Boost 350s, in a verse on French Montana’s song No Stylist.

“Yeah, keeping it G, I told her, ‘don’t wear no 350s around me,’” Drake raps in the song.

West on Thursday wrote, “Still need that apology for mentioning the 350s and trying to take food out your idols kids mouths.”

The father of three continued to say that he was not the one who informed fellow rapper Pusha T that Drake had secretly fathered a child. Pusha made headlines over the summer when he accused Drake of having a kid in his song The Story of Adidon.

Shortly after that song was released, Pusha released an album, Daytona, produced by West, that also included a diss track that touched on the claims that Drake has used a ghostwriter.

“I told you I ain’t tell Pusha about your son,” West tweeted Thursday.

West added in a subsequent post that he hadn’t heard “any of the diss records” and that he’d “never intentionally try to hurt Drake.”

He later wrote that Drake finally called him following the barrage of tweets.

“Drake called trying to threatened (sic) me,” West wrote.

“There would never be a drake without a Kanye west so never come out your mouth with a threat,” read another tweet from West.

The Famous rapper added that he wasn’t going to clear Drake’s request.

“How you gone be on Trav’s song coming at me,” West wrote. “Trav should have never allowed that.”

All in all, West shared over 100 tweets during Thursday’s posting spree. Drake, meanwhile, cryptically shared a series of laughing-face emojis to his Instagram story Thursday night.

West ended his rant by sharing multiple tweets preaching positivity.

“All positive vibes,” he wrote. – New York Daily News/TNS