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Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West didn't have much of a relationship during the Yeezus tour - a New York Times feature reports the pair barely spoke.
In the New York Times' recent profile on Lamar, writer Lizzy Goodman follows the TDE rapper as he opens for West for the majority of the Yeezus shows. Lamar tells Goodman Kanye personally asked him to be his live support act, but it seems the communication stopped there.
Goodman spent 3 weeks on the Yeezus tour with Lamar, and saw the two rappers talk to each other just once. "As the two men greeted each other, their respective posses fell back - except for Lamar’s videographer and his counterpart in West’s camp, both of whom acted as if this was the moment they’d been waiting for all tour," wrote Goodman.
"They traced a tight circle around the men, lenses open to capture every word of a conversation that lasted less than 30 seconds. The two rappers embraced, then Lamar paused, allowing West to proceed down the hallway first, before continuing to the stage to play his set," she continued.
"It’s tempting to imagine that tour partnerships between an established star and an up-and-comer result in lots of communal bonding… But a mentor-mentee relationship wasn’t what was expected or desired, and it certainly was not what was happening."
Watch the video for Kendrick Lamar's 'Poetic Justice' below:
What's more, it seems that Kendrick's camp weren't keen on doing the Yeezus tour in the first place. Terrence Henderson, president of Kendrick's label TDE, told the New York Times: "Believe it or not, we were actually trying not to do the tour," said Henderson. "We wanted Kendrick to be recording that whole time." Kanye, who "wouldn't take no for an answer", got his own way in the end.
Other revelations from the profile, which you can read in full here, include the fact Lamar used to have a stutter, has a secret girlfriend, and is partial to a Lunchables snack pack. Aren't we all?
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