Chance the Rapper has admitted that it’s been a long time since he was close with Kanye West.
Speaking on the New Rory & Mal Podcast, Chance discussed his relationship with his fellow Chicagoan.
He said: I was gonna say honesty is the best policy — I haven’t talked to him in a long time. He’s one of the most influential people in my music. He was at my wedding, our kids have hung out together.
“I’ll always love Kanye, but just being honest, I haven’t talked to him in a while. I feel like I’ve been hella busy. I’m working on shit. He’s obviously been busy. I be trying not to take opportunities to diss motherfuckers or add too much to the story.”
Chance also refused to commit to trying to build a bridge with his one time collaborator: “The way that I think about my world is, I be thinking about my day. So, what I gotta do that day and what I’m working on for the next two weeks, maybe six months.”
He added: “My relationships and how I view people as friends and stuff is just, ‘Have I loved this person? And have they ever willfully and intentionally betrayed me?’ I got friends that I haven’t talked to in five or six, seven years. It’s not like I’m anticipating some conversation, some thing where it’s like, ‘All right, now it’s my time to fix you and tell your a– what you’ve been tweaking on.’ No sh– like that.”
Chance also attempted to explain the dynamic between himself and West: “I’m also a lot younger than them n-ggas. There’s also different ways that people can even have friendships, because we’re not necessarily peers. My first album that I consciously wanted to have was The College Dropout. So I have a different reverence for him, or just understanding of how my life went and how it influenced things I do. I think most rappers got a rapper that was they first album, and probably from they city. So, imagine if yours was Kanye West, and imagine if you worked with them, and imagine all that shit.”
