DJ Envy isn’t a fan of Kanye West’s antics surrounding his Donda album release.
On Monday’s episode of the Breakfast Club, the radio host called the Chicago rapper a “clown.” Envy decided to explain his viewpoint further on Tuesday, saying on the show, “I called him a clown and I still stand by that, and I still mean that.”
Envy not only called ’Ye a clown, he also extended the diss to specific members of West’s team. This led to a flood of feedback.
“So many people called me—artists, athletes, OGs, newer artists, younger artists, Kanye’s team,” Envy said, “and asked me why I felt that way. And I explained to them why I felt that way. And they asked me, well, why do [I] think that the people that I named—which was Pusha-T, John Monopoly, Free, and Bu [Thiam]—are like that too?’”
Envy continued, “I said, ‘I feel like you enable him to do it. Like you don’t stop him from doing the wild-out stuff behind the scenes that I think is really disrespectful, and he should be humbled. And they told me that that’s a lie. They was like, ‘That is not true. When you’re dealing with somebody that has emotional problems and bipolar [disorder] and things like that, you can’t necessarily control them.’ It’s uncontrollable—you do what you can to make sure that things are all right and they try to stay in there as a brother. But they said yeah, they agreed that some of the things he does is foul, but they said they can’t control that man.”
Envy concluded after talking to those Yeezy associates he named, “To those brothers, yes I get it. And me calling y’all clowns was foul. But I still think Kanye is a clown for the things that he do. ... Shout out to all them individuals that were able to tell me their side. When I make a mistake, I say it.”
On Monday, Envy called Yeezy both “a clown and a circus.” The 43-year-old added, “I’m ashamed of the people around him—Bu [Thiam], Free, Pusha, Monopoly...he is a clown. And if you don’t get your guy together—like Charlamagne said seven years ago, when he came up here and said, ‘The people around you don’t love you.’ And Kanye, the people around you don’t love you. You are a clown.”
Charlamagne tha God took a more slightly amicable approach to his criticism of Donda and Kanye, calling the project “lackluster,” “exhausting,” and “dated.”
