8 Things We Learned From Ye’s Interview With DJ Akademiks

Kanye has targeted Kim Kardashian and the Kardashian family as a whole when it comes to the custody of his children. West, who married Kim in 2014 and finalized their divorce in 2022, revealed he actually never wanted to have children with Kardashian. The former couple shares four children (North, Saint, Psalm and Chicago).

“No, that was my fault. I take it,” he said. “I didn’t want to have children with this person after the first two months of being with her. But that wasn’t God’s plan.”

Ye and Drake have enjoyed a love-hate relationship over the years, and West seemingly flipped sides in the Drizzy-Kendrick Lamar battle. Now, Ye is defending Drake, while saying he’s “a million times better” and “more important” of an artist than Lamar.

“One thing is, Drake is a million times better than Kendrick and a million times more important,” he said. “What Future has done, [Young] Thug, Drake, culturally — that s–t last year, I could barely sit through that s–t. That s–t was insane, bro. Had Lucian Grainge, Universal, Drake lawsuit s–t written all over it.

Ye added: “At the end of the day, all this s–t I’m saying – Jim Jones, Kendrick, all these celebrities – the funny thing is, we’re all in the same boat.”

Kanye felt betrayed by being allegedly removed from Playboi Carti’s Music album. His anger was taken to another level when Carti reposted Kim Kardashian following his Skims shout-out on the project, which led to him asking for his “niece” North West to send over some vocals. West felt the Atlanta rapper crossed the line by that point.

“What one of my actual friends or someone that can call my daughter their niece would reach out to a woman that I got issues with?” West asked. “I know that is not street code.”

“You’re reposting my baby momma and not even reposting me,” he said. “You were the first feature on Donda. It’s like the Carti s–t is like the final heartbreak.”

West also revealed that he was working on a joint mixtape with Carti prior to Music‘s arrival.

West doubled down on his insulting of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s twins, Sir and Rumi, who he flagrantly called “r—–ded” in a since-deleted tweet earlier in March.

“Everything is like, ‘But you offended Jay-Z.’ F–k him,” Ye bluntly told Akademiks. “Put it like this — let’s take it to money — how much money you think Jay-Z makes off my catalog versus what I make off it? Next subject.”

Ye has continued to diss his former friend and collaborator in the late Virgil Abloh, who passed away from a rare form of cancer in 2021. In a series of recent tweets, he said it’s still “f–k Virgil.” When asked about his animosity toward the Louis Vuitton designer, Ye succinctly replied: “I’m evil.”

Frank Ocean hasn’t released an album since Blonde in 2016, but Kanye believes Donda‘s “Moon” featuring Kid Cudi and Don Toliver officially ended his career five years later.

“Like when I made, ‘Moon,’ it basically ended Frank Ocean’s career. He ain’t have a song since then. He talking, ‘Sipping some wine.’ I knew it I heard it, I was like, ‘Oh, this n—a not gonna be able to make another album again,’” he claimed. “Any genre of music that anyone has, I make a better version of it. I’m 10 times stronger at music than anyone living.”

In February, Ty Dolla $ign released a vague statement denouncing hate speech to his Instagram Story. He didn’t name Ye specifically, but many believed it was tied to West’s recent statements as the pair collaborated on a pair of Vultures joint albums in 2024.

“I do not condone ANY form of hate speech against ANYONE,” he wrote at the time.

West claimed that Ty Dolla was threatened by his record label, that he had to denounce Ye in some fashion publicly or they would allegedly cancel his tours and drop Leon Thomas from his EZMNY Records imprint.

“They literally called Ty Dolla and said — and this is coercion, that’s why these n—as are gonna be locked up one day — they said you have to denounce Ye publicly or we’re gonna drop your artist, Leon [Thomas] [and] cancel all your tours,” he said. “They on some mob s–t.”

Ye continued: “They up here threatening n—as, stopping they money. This is real-life s–t off of a statement. Off of me wearing a motherf–king chain. Off of me wearing they pain. But they playing, turning up, promoting off of our pain.”