The artist formerly known as Kanye West says he’s been having dreams about “apologizing to Jay-Z.”
In an X update on Saturday, Ye, who gets an unflattering mention on Clipse’s Pharrell-produced new song, again brought up HOV, an inarguably crucial fixture in his early trajectory. Earlier this year, Ye made unfounded claims about Jay and Beyoncé’s seven-year-old twins.
“All my dreams have been about apologizing to Jay-Z,” Ye wrote in the since-deleted tweet.
While Ye did not go on to specify the focus of this allegedly dreamed-about apology, many were quick to connect it to the widely criticized remarks he made about Jay and Bey’s youngest. As previously reported, the latter’s mother, Tina Knowles, appeared to respond to Ye by asking her Instagram followers, “What happens when a snowman throws a tantrum?”
The Matriarch author went on to give fans an answer (“He has a meltdown”) before calling out unspecified “ignorance and evil.”
Ye did, in fact, previously offer an X-shared apology to Jay. In April, he wrote, “I’m sorry,” though it wasn’t immediately clear at the time whether this was specifically in reference to his prior remark about the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder’s children. Prior to that vague apology, Ye had said that he would “never” offer an apology to the Carter family “until they help me with my children.” That same month, Ye said he “obviously” hated Jay.
Apologies and related declarations are nothing new for Ye, who just last month claimed he was “done with antisemitism.” At the time, he asked for forgiveness and told fans he wanted to “save the world again” after a FaceTime with his and ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s children. Days later, however, he very much appeared to have already upended that apology.
