Lupe Fiasco has dismissed Kid Cudi‘s apology as the duo’s ongoing beef intensifies.
On Friday (January 19), Cudi issued an apology for feedback he made about his interactions with the Chicago rapper within the INSANO rapper’s pre-fame days.
“Love u g,” wrote Cudi, taking to X (previously Twitter). “Im sorry if i hurt u man. Life is too short. Hope u can find it in ur heart to get past this,” he added, informing Lupe in a separate thread that he despatched him a DM.
“Im so happy in my life right now. If I did something to hurt someone and I can fix it, ill fix it,” he added, in response to a fan encouraging Cudi to seek out “growth, peace, and happiness…”
However, Lupe wasn’t having it and knowledgeable Cudi he hadn’t acquired a DM. To make amends, Lupe mentioned, Cudi wants to talk with him instantly.
“On second thought homey, this ain’t enough…you need to talk to me,” he added, in response to Cudi’s plea.
The newest fracas between Lupe Fiasco and Kid Cudi comes on the heels of a brand new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the place the INSANO rapper recalled a near-encounter with Lupe in 2008 on the BAPE retailer in New York City, the place he labored earlier than his music profession took off.
Cudi defined that he made an effort to remain out of the way in which if any well-known rappers swung by way of the shop for worry they’d use his retail job as ammo towards him in a future feud.
“Lupe Fiasco came to the store one day. I was in the back and they were like, ‘Yo, Lupe’s here.’ I was like, ‘Oh shit!’” he mentioned. “Stayed down the stairs [in the stock room], waited until he left. [My colleagues] were like, ‘What you down here for?’
“I explained it to my dude the same way I explained it to you. I was like, ‘Yo bro, if I get famous one day, I don’t ever want this n-gga saying like, ‘He sold me clothes. You my son!’ We can’t have that!’”
Cudi continued: “If you think about it, he hates me to this day! He hates me. So I was right, I was onto something. I sensed something in the universe. I was like, ‘Fuck this, I can’t have nobody making a diss record like, ‘Yeah, you rang me up, muthafucka.’”
Upon catching wind of the interview, the “Battle Scars” rapper fired off a sequence of tweets through which he known as Cudi out his title, earlier than making a direct reference to his latest statements about his pre-fame profession.
“Kid Cudi is a bitch,” Fiasco wrote. “And continues to be a bitch. Ain’t nobody finna bring up he used to work at the Bape Store to diss his bitch ass for having a regular job before he was a famous bitch with a cool job.”
When a fan tweeted that they wanted to listen to “the full story” about their fallout, Lupe went into nice element concerning the historical past of their beef. After explaining that they’d been cool for years, going as far as to even contemplate Kid Cudi a buddy, Lupe Fiasco mentioned he felt blindsided by Kid Cudi calling him out in 2014 over charging followers $500 for a customized verse.
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Lu even mentioned that he tried to confront Cudi about it instantly however might get no satisfaction.
“Till this day this bitch won’t get on the phone and even when we at the same festivals they won’t allow me to go to his stage. He ducks calls, face to faces,” he wrote. “All I wanted was an explanation at the least a my bad. Cuz I’ve never done anything to him except support. Now it’s fuck him 4 life and keep my name out your mouth bitch…”
Finally, a fan addressed Lupe Fiasco instantly, claiming that Kid Cudi’s prediction again in his retail clothes days got here true.
“He’s not saying you were mad at him then,” he clarified. “He’s saying he would duck all rappers out of insecurity, just in case there might be potential beef in the future. And he was laughing that it came true w you.”
Lupe, nevertheless, wasn’t having it. “A beef he started with a n-gga who actually looked out for him? Make that make sense. Cudi a bitch,” he responded.
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