UPDATE 1/19/23, 9:34 p.m. ET: After Kid Cudi said he'd send a DM to straighten things out between him and Lupe Fiasco, the latter claimed he'd never received a direct message.
"I didn’t get a DM from you. 🤷🏾♂️," Lupe wrote in response to Cudi's message on X saying he'd reach out.
In a subsequent post, the Chicago rapper added, "This lying ass bitch ass nigga… Aight…"
This came after Cudi initially sent an apology to Lupe, to which the latter responded that "this ain't enough...you need to talk to me."
After catching wind of Lupe's messages on X, Cudi posted another message in which he asked Lupe to stop calling him names. The post also contained a screenshot of the alleged DM to the "Kick, Push" rapper that read, "Hey brother. Would love to talk. Sorry about everything man."
"Hey brother, please refrain from callin me out my name," Cudi wrote in the X post. "I come w love. Heres the dm i sent, u cant recieve messages. Just noticed. I have no reason to cap. Now if u wanna keep the same negative energy we cant speak. I have no room in my life for that. Im tryna move past this. Ima talk w u tomorrow w Ibn."
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UPDATE 1/19/23, 5:34 p.m. ET: The Cudi and Lupe saga continues. The latest update comes by way of a tweet from Cudder, who struck a reconciliatory tone in a series of posts.
"Lupe love me yall dont get it twisted," Cudi wrote in response to Lupe's barrage of tweets aimed at him. "He just hurt. He beefin w himself at this point. Holdin that much hate in ur heart for someone for so long holds u back in life bro. Thats the devil using u. Hope he finds some peace man. Now its just sad."
"Love u g. Im sorry if i hurt u man. Life is too short. Hope u can find it in ur heart to get past this," Cudi wrote in another.
Cudi also extended an olive branch in another message mentioning Lupe, writing, "Just sent u a dm lets talk @LupeFiasco."
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Kid Cudi and Lupe Fiasco go way back.
In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Cudder reflected on working at BAPE in New York City—and a time when Lupe walked into the store. He revealed that he hung out in the back while the Chicago native shopped.
"I had this phobia that rappers would come into the store and see me working there and then have beef with me later and bring up the fact like, 'N****, you sold me clothes.' So I would always hide in the stockroom," Cudi said around the 34:35 minute mark.
When he was asked by a coworker why he didn’t come out to chat with Lupe, Cudi replied, “‘If I get famous one day, I don't ever want this n***a saying, “Yo, you sold me clothes, you my son.”’ You know what I'm saying? We can't have that. This was my explanation, and yo, bro, when you think about it, [Lupe] hates me to this day. He hates me. So it's like I was right. I was on to something. I sensed something in the universe.”
Cudi added, “This is my plan at that time. I was totally hyper-aware that something was going to happen for me and I was just like, ‘Fuck this.’ I can't have nobody making no diss record. ‘Yeah, you rang me up motherfucker.’ You know what I'm saying?”
Lupe clearly caught wind of the story and fired back on Twitter on Friday morning, calling Cudi a “bitch.”
“Kid Cudi is a bitch. And continues to be a bitch. Ain’t nobody finna bring up he used to work at the Bape Store to diss his bitch ass for having a regular job before he was a famous bitch with a cool job.”
"I wanna beat this n**ga up so bad I’m getting a migraine…," Lupe wrote in a follow-up tweet.
This isn't the first time Lupe's called Cudi "a bitch." Back in February 2022, amid Cudi and Kanye West's fallout, Lupe chimed in when a fan called Cudi "a goat" and Ye "petty."
“Oh he a goat," Lupe replied on X. "But he a bitch.”
Lupe isn't Cudi's biggest fan and it's been like that for years after Cudi claimed that Lupe was "scamming" fans online. Lupe then said Cudi is a "disrespectful clown" who needs his "ass beat" on Twitter.
“He called me a thief. In public,” Lupe reportedly wrote in 2016. “Had all kinds of people shitting on me for no reason. Then ducked a conversation to clarify or squash it.”
Lupe continued to call out Cudi on X (Twitter) and offered some background into exactly how their relationship soured.
Of note, the interview Lupe references in his string of tweets is from Cudi's 2010 Complex cover story.
When asked about who has been there for him Cudi mentioned Lupe, as well as Kanye West and Don C.
"Besides the fam, and Yeezy and Don C, there's one artist in this game who has always had my back and had nothing but love to show, and that's Lupe Fiasco," Cudi said at the time. "Every time I see that man, it's nothing but love—I saw him a little after it, and he was like 'I'm worried about you, man, just checking in.' He's somebody who I know really genuinely gives a fuck. Noreaga also checked in."
You can read Lupe's recounting of his history and subsequent beef with Cudi below.
Elsewhere in Kid Cudi's Apple interview, when he and Lowe were talking about Ye, the rapper shared his viewpoint on how he deals with relationships these days.
“The new Scott doesn't have beef with anyone, and I just try to focus on that," he explained. "Any past thing I ever had, sometimes it's been I might fall out with somebody and never talk to them ever again, and then sometimes I fall out with somebody and might not talk for a couple years and then we reconnect and it's squashed and it's all good. So it depends. It's like friendships, really it's beyond friendship, is about when it's brotherly, sisterly shit, family shit. It's just a little bit more complicated.”
