Kanye West’s collaborator Digital Nas has expressed his frustration over the crediting for Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s hit single “Carnival” alongside Rich The Kid.
Taking to social media in a fiery post, the producer shared a screenshot of an email from A&R Matt Geffen, revealing that his contributions to the Vultures 1 track had not been confirmed by fellow producers Traxster, 88-Keys, and Morning Estrada.
Rich The Kid shares a baffling story about how he somehow found himself in ownership of a phone that had everybody’s contacts. In an interview with Complex, the Rich Forever rapper said after the end of his deal with Quality Control, he used the contacts on the phone to prey for a new record deal. He reached out to Interscope’s Manny Smith who invited him over.
“When I was leaving QC, I had to do a buyout situation and I was really fucked up. I didn’t have any money, but I had the magic contacts, and I went to every single record label. I had every label, every exec’s [number], everybody,” Rich recalled. “So I called every label. The only person that really answered was Manny Smith from Interscope, and he told me to pull up like, ‘Yo, come play the music, let me hear.’ And that’s how I got my deal, through the magic contact list.”
Rich The Kid opens up about how Kanye West took over the responsibility of executive-producing his upcoming album, Life’s A Gamble. According to the “Save That” rapper, everything got in motion after their Vultures hit “Carnival” occupied the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
“The day the song went No. 1, Ye DM’ed me,” Rich recently told Complex. “He’s like, “I want to executive produce the project with me and Ty and shit.” So I was like, “Hell yeah, let’s do it.” So we’ve been in the studio day in, day out, cooking up and perfecting the sound.”
He added, “a lot of the project was already there. We were just reworking stuff, perfecting the sound.”
Rich The Kid didn’t take Elliot Wilson’s comments that the Rich Forever rapper was “lucky” to be featured on Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s No. 1 hit “Carnival” very well.
“I kind of felt a way about that because I made this song, we made this song. I went in the booth, I recorded it, I didn’t write it down, just freestyled it, and we made magic,” Rich explained to Complex’s Jordan Rose. “And now you’re talking about I’m lucky like the words didn’t come out of my mouth, like I ain’t say it. How the fuck am I lucky? I chose the beat. It was like, get off my dick.”
Rich added that Elliot should’ve applauded his effort on the track. “Like, ‘sounds like he perfected the sound. This is crazy. Production is crazy.’ He should have said that,” he said. “‘I’ve seen Rich work forever and he’s been grinding,’ but you going to say some shit like ‘you lucky?’ Come on bro. You too old for that shit, but it’s all love bro. It went No. 1.”
Rich The Kid is ready to bless his fans with a new album, Life Is A Gamble, slated for release this spring. The Rich Forever boss announced the project on Instagram this week writing: “LIFES A GAMBLE ALBUM SPRING 24 LET THE GAME BEGIN🎲🎲🤞🏾🚀”
The album is expected to feature the likes of Kanye West, Travis Barker, Offset, Rob49 among others.
The album will follow up his joint mixtape with Lil Wayne, Trust Fund Babies, released in 2021. His last solo album, Boss Man, arrived in 2020.
Rich The Kid has come a long way in the rap game, and has consequently worked with multiple labels in his career. What many don’t know is that he was once signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, his gateway to Interscope. The rapper confirmed this during a recent interview on Bootleg TV.
This also explains how he was able to land a collab with Kendrick Lamar with “New Freezer.” “When I first met Kendrick Lamar I was recording my album in one room, Kendrick was recording his album in one room, SZA was recording her album in another room,” Rich said after he was asked about his relationship with TDE. “And then one day they came in like ‘yo, Kendrick wants to hear like some new records,’ I played him ‘New Freezer’ and his was like ‘yeah.’”
Some of Rich’s earlier songs like “Plug Walk” and “Cocaina” were released via TDE and Interscope.
After recently teasing new music together, Rich Forever partners Rich The Kid, Famous Dex, and Jay Critch continue to hint at even a full-length project. On Wednesday (December 21), Rich shared a picture of him along with Dexter and Critch on Instagram, with the caption, “Rich Forever 5.”
Famous Dex also shared the moment on his page while reminiscing about 2017, when they broke into the scene.
The fourth installment of the mixtape series was released in 2019 with features from 83 Babies, Yung Bino, Tg3 Thr33, and ASAP Ferg. The first segment of the mixtape series dropped in 2016.
Rich The Kid, Jay Critch, and Famous Dex are making a point, Rich Forever is still here. The trio hopped on social media Tuesday night (December 13) to post moments they shared in the studio. From the videos and photos on their Instagram pages, the three made new music together and possibly shot a video.
“They said Rich forever was over?” Rich The Kid wrote under a video of them listening to an unreleased song.
Rich is currently readying to unleash his upcoming single, “No More Friends,” which drops on Friday (December 16).
The last time the three rappers joined forces was on their 2019 compilation, Rich Forever 4, which featured ASAP Ferg, 83 Babies, Yung Bino, Airi, and Tg3 Thr33.
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