Kanye West wants his credit when it comes to livestreaming culture and he thinks Kai Cenat owes him some props. In a recent clip posted by AkademiksTV, Ye doubled down on his belief that he pioneered the kind of livestreams that have helped launch Kai Cenat’s career to new heights.
“I invented the streaming s**t with Donda,” Ye said, referencing the high-profile livestreams he held from inside Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium while finishing his 2021 album. “No, this n***a gon’ tell me, ‘Oh, Kai Cenat had n***as in the prison.’ I said, ‘Jews been had n***as in prisons.’ I was like, n***a, that was my whole s**t. Sleeping in the stadium. N***as is taking the whole swag and running with it.”
Though livestreaming is nothing new, Kanye feels he helped redefine it with the Donda experience and isn’t happy others are borrowing from the playbook without acknowledgment. He went on to say, “That’s one thing that old n***as be doing. N***as will pull up and want you to remember some s**t. That’s how n***as get out and get shot and s**t. ‘Man, you remember?’ ‘No.’ Bow. You out of here.”
This isn’t the first time Ye and Kai have clashed. Their tension dates back to the VULTURES era, when Kanye sent Cenat a merch box that didn’t fit. Kai clowned it on his stream, and Kanye fired back. “F**k that n***a corny,” Ye recently said about the streamer.
Still, despite the jabs, the two have also shown mutual admiration in the past, making their back-and-forth feel more like a love-hate saga than a full-blown beef. Whether this turns into a real feud or just more viral moments remains to be seen.