André 3000 thanks Drake for leaking Kanye West’s ‘Life of The Party’

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André 3000 has spoken about his feature on Kanye West‘s 2021 album ‘Donda‘ and why he wants to thank Drake – see what he had to say below.In 2021, André 3000 was approached by Kanye for his album ‘Donda’.

Together, the two put together a track titled ‘Life Of The Party’. However, the song never made the final cut of the album as the two rappers were not able to come to an agreement on censorship.At the time, Kanye was adamant on not including swear words on the record, while André’s verse included profanities.

André was unwilling to cut out the vulgarity as he felt that the verse would lose impact, and the song was left on the cutting room floor, though eventually being included in the record’s deluxe edition after it was leaked.Now, André has revealed while appearing on The New York Times‘ podcast that Drake – who was beefing with Kanye at the time – had a part to play in the song’s release.“Ye was at a point where he didn’t want any curse words on the album and I said, ‘Yeah I’m cool with it.’ I’m totally fine with no curse words.

But take me off the song because I’d written it a certain way,” André said of the collaboration. “I was cool with beeped versions but you have to put the dirty version of it out too.“He told me, ‘I told my daughter that I would not have any curse words on the album’.