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Kanye West was featured on YNW Melly's 'We All Shine' song 'Mixed Personalities' in 2019, but the collaboration almost didn't happen.

currently-incarcerated YNW Melly s Mixed Personalities in 2019, but the collaboration almost didnt happen. Mellys manager 100KTrack broke down the story to DJ Akademikson the latest episode of his Off the Record podcast. We playing music, played one or two records, hes bumping his head, 100KTrack said about their Los Angeles studio session. Then we play Mixed Personalities and he goes crazy. Hes like, Bruh! This is me! This is Ye! This is Kanye! This is Yeezy! This is me! So me and Melly looking at each other like, Damn! He fucks with it? Hes like, Bruh, I wanna jump on this' Despite Kanyes enthusiastic reaction to the record, 100KTrack initially denied his request to jump on the song due to poor timing. Melly looked at me and I looked at him. I said, I aint gonna lie Ye, you cant jump on this record,' he continued. On everything I love. Im not faking it. If you know Ye, call him. This is his reaction. He said, What? Why? No, I gotta jump on this. Hes like, Why? Why? Im like, Cause look bro. Remember, this is his album were playing. We already turned in the music. I already got Cole Bennettabout to shoot this video. This is one of the main singles that we believe in. Im not tripping. This is three to four weeks of this album about to come out. We already got the structure. We got the video treatment. A post shared by DJ Akademiks (@akademiks) Kanye West apparently loved the song so much, though, he was willing to do whatever it takes to make the collaboration happen. At this point, Im like, Bruh, Ill play more music,' 100KTrack explained. said, Nah Track, nah nah. Im not gonna lie. Whatever I need to do, Ill get it done We played City Girls. We played Rolling Loud. I think we played one more song and then I played Mixed Personalities Hes like, This is really me. Im feeling a connection to it. Look Track, aint no managers, nothing. Take my number. I get his number, he texted me. Hes like, Ima do it. I said, Look, Ye bro, if youre gonna do it, you gotta do the video cause this is the song were about to do a video for. Hes like, Ima clear it. Ima do the video. Whatever I gotta do to make it happen.' Read more