Kanye West Calls Jay-Z Selfish for Keeping Song ‘Holy Grail’ for Himself

Kanye West had a whole lot to say during the Drink Champs podcast. The rapper, who now goes by Ye, reflected on the making of the Watch The Throne album. While discussing with the podcast hosts, Kanye called Hov selfish for not wanting to add his song “Holy Grail” on WTT but instead saved it for Magna Carta Holy Grail.

“I took a track off of what was gonna be my album, the follow-up to [My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy], that I heard when we all was at dinner, and it was the ‘Otis’ sample.” Kanye continued “I took ‘New Day’ off of my next album, I took ‘Otis’ off of my next album. And we got into this big argument because he had this song called ‘Holy Grail’ that he had Justin Timberlake singing on. And I was like, ‘We need to put this on this album.’ And then he was like, ‘Nah.’ Everybody knows Jay is very selfish … We all love him but, you know, he’s very selfish. He’ll say like, ‘Man, I’m selfish.’ So he wouldn’t give that song. I’m like, ‘Man, how I’m giving all of this?’”

Now Kanye did clarify that “Holy Grail” wasn’t supposed to be a part of the Watch The Throne album. However, he did want to include the song because he wanted to make the album better, but HOV had other plans.

“I wanted to make the album better, he wanted to save [it for] his album. We fell out many of times, he’s my brother. Whenever he does some Jay sh*t and I do some Ye sh*t, we don’t say sh*t. That’s some real sh*t.”

Watch Kanye’s entire episode on Drink Champs below.