EST Gee has a bone to choose with Ye. The Louisville, Ky. rapper featured a pattern of Ye’s traditional “Flashing Lights” beat on the bonus version of his new album, I Ain’t Feeling You. On the aptly titled tune “Flash” that includes Chicago rapper Bloodhoud Q50, Gee delivers his point-blank bars over a flip of the hovering “Flashing Lights” beat. The worth for utilizing a part of Ye and producer Eric Hudson’s authentic manufacturing? $70,000, in line with EST Gee, who reveals the fee in XXL‘s new collection No Filter, during which artists maintain it actual about what they’d say in the event that they have been within the room with sure well-known figures.
“Ye, why you charged $70,000 for that muhf**kin’ pattern I acquired,” Gee says. “You simply posted that you simply acquired $5 billion. I perceive. I am not the institution although.” Do not take Gee’s phrases like there’s some beef or one thing deeper right here although. The 30-year-old MC says all of it with a smile on his face, and nonetheless has nothing however respect for Ye. Some rappers have a mutual understanding with one another that they do not cost for options, however with Ye, he is placing enterprise first to make a revenue.
Loopy prices for samples are nothing new in hip-hop. Two years in the past, Diddy confirmed that he pays Sting $5,000 per day for sampling The Police’s “Each Breath You Take” on the 1997 hit “I’ll Be Lacking You,” a tribute to The Infamous B.I.G. That is an entire different tax bracket proper there.
Other than Ye, EST Gee additionally has some phrases for President Donald Trump. Kodak Black and Lil Wayne acquired presidential pardons from Trump again in 2021. So Gee desires to look out for some pals who’re at present locked up.
“Donald Trump, for an undisclosed quantity of favor, how a lot undisclosed quantity of favor, no matter sort of object, wouldn’t it be to get like 15 federal pardons for inmates already proper now convicted,” Gee asks. “Let’s determine it out.”
Gee’s acquired an entire lot extra to say to actor Tom Cruise relating to a Bobby Shmurda lyric, Lil Child because of addressing folks beneath him, former NFL participant Michael Vick a couple of letter Gee wrote to him years in the past and extra. Take a look at EST Gee with no filter beneath.