Andre 3000 Explains How Drake Saved Him From Weirdo Kanye West

Andre 3000 hasn't done a lot of rapping over the last fifteen years.

But he did drop a verse on the 2021 Kanye track, "Life of The Party".

As Andre told the New York Times, the only reason the verse saw the light of day is that Drake -- who was beefing with Ye at the time -- leaked it.  If he hadn't, the verse would have been scrapped because of a policy against profanity that Ye briefly held.

André 3000 says he asked Kanye to remove his verse from 'Life of the Party' because Kanye wouldn’t allow curse words on Donda 👀

He thanks Drake for leaking the song, which gave it a chance to be heard.

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"Drake got a hold of the song before Kanye could put it out.  And Drake released it on his radio show," Andre said.  "What people don't know is that at that point, Kanye and I really weren't in agreement of how the song would be released.  I'm not sure if it was even going to come out.  So I don't know if Drake found the song was not going to come out and was just saying 'I'm going to put it out.'  Because it was a thing about Kanye was at a point in his life because he didn't want any curse words on the album.  And I said, yeah I'm fine without no curse words but take me off the song because I had written it in a certain way.  And I was cool with beeped version, but you have to put the dirty version out and he didn't want to put a dirty version out.  He said I told me daughter I would not have any curse words on this album.  And I said, OK take me off.  And we weren't in agreement, so finally Drake puts it out.  So kinda have to thank Drake for letting that song see the light of day."

Here's what Drake saved: