Kanye West wants no part of the feud between rappers Bhad Bhabie and Alabama Barker.
Bhad Bhabie, 21, released her diss track, “Ms. Whitman,” on Tuesday, February 25, and in it, she samples the instrumental from West, 47, and Ty Dolla $ign’s single, “Carnival.” The “Hi Bich” rapper took it a step further via Instagram Live later on Tuesday when she played an apparent remix of the track that includes vocals from West.
West denied taking part in the track and accused Bhad Bhabie of using AI to sample him.
“I’m not in the middle of none of this A.I. beef, people throwing my voice on things, the whole ‘Carnival’ sample,” he said Tuesday night via his Instagram Story, adding that he talked to Alabama Barker’s father, Blink-182 drummer (and West’s former brother-in-law) Travis Barker.
“I just talked to Travis Barker, I would never be in the middle,” he insisted. “I don’t even know what’s going on. I just got sent a song and asked if I could clear the sample.”
“I’m not in the middle of none of this A.I. beef, people throwing my voice on things, the whole ‘Carnival’ sample,” he concluded.
The “Stronger” rapper added that he only cleared the instrumental sample because “so many people try to stop me, they stop clearances.”
Bhad Bhabie also released a video with the track, which features a Travis lookalike playing the drums while she twerks around him. Meanwhile the lyrics invoke Kourtney Kardashian, Travis’ wife, with the line, “Your stepmom burnt out, why she took her sister’s second-hand? (Wow) / I know your route, you’re reaching out, you need my name for clout (Clout).”
“Ms. Whitman” also takes shots at Alabama’s rap style, her lack of musical accolades and her rumored relationship with Soulja Boy. Alabama and Soulja Boy have both denied a relationship.
The public feud between Bhad Bhabie and Alabama, 19, began in December when Bhabie accused Alabama of interfering in her relationship with Le Vaughn.
Alabama fired back, claiming Le Vaughn had been reaching out to her and she did not know he was already in a relationship at the time.
“I want to be clear: I have no interest in this man,” she said at the time via her Instagram Story, before expanding on ““the way this situation has been misrepresented and the damage it has done to my character.”
When Bhabie called her out in her track Overcooked in January, Alabama responded with a diss track of her own, “Cry Bhabie.”
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