A new Drake song, titled “Rescue Me,” features Kim Kardashian talking to mom Kris Jenner about when she knew she wanted a divorce from Kanye West, a conversation that aired on the 2021 finale of the E! reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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A new Drake song hit SiriusXM on Friday, and an audio clip in the track should sound familiar to any Kardashians fan.
The track, titled “Rescue Me,” debuted on SiriusXM’s Sound 42 and later hit YouTube. Around the one-minute mark of one YouTube upload, listeners can hear Kim Kardashian talking to mom Kris Jenner about when she knew she wanted a divorce from Kanye West, a conversation that aired on the 2021 finale of the E! reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”
“I didn’t come this far just to come this far and not be happy,” Kardashian says. “Remember that.”
“OK, that’s fair,” Jenner responds. “You didn’t come this far just to come this far.”
The excerpt seems to be the latest development in Drake’s ongoing feud with West, whom he once described as “the most influential person” in his career, as People recaps.
Drake and West have collaborated several times in their rap careers, but their relationship seemed to sour around 2016, when West ranted about the amount of radio play Drake and DJ Khaled were getting.
“I went from … like, working on a project with him, to him sorta publicly s—ting on me and DJ Khaled for being on the radio too much,” Drake said in a subsequent interview, per People. “I’m not sure why we’re the target of your choice that you made that night.”
In 2018, rapper Pusha T released the West-produced album “Daytona,” which featured a diss about Drake on the track “Infrared.” West later apologized to Drake on Twitter, writing, “There should have been no songs with my involvement that had any negative energy towards you.”
Just weeks later, though, West lashed out at Drake about the fan speculation that Kardashian was the “Kiki” the Toronto rapper mentions in his hit “In My Feelings.”
“People making rumors or thinking you f—ed my wife and you’re not saying nothing… that don’t sit well with my spirit,” West said.
The two men reunited at a benefit concert in Los Angeles in 2021. And when Drake claimed in one track that the get-together wasn’t the friendly reunion it seemed to be, West responded on Twitter to say he had “love” for Drake, according to TMZ. West even hailed Drake as “the greatest rapper ever” in an October 2022 podcast episode, per NME, but it would seem Drake isn’t ready to bury the hatchet.
