Debuting his career as a local music producer, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has come a long way. Commanding the tide of influencing hip-hop, his twenty-four Grammy Awards and ten studio albums stand as stark proofs of his contributions to the music industry. Decades later, at a time when the first volume of his latest collaborated release, ‘Vultures 1’ came with shy complaints of his lyrical genius fading away, support has come running.

A popular face from the pro-wrestling community raised his voice to echo the power that the ‘Donda’ singer’s lyrics carry.

‘Runaway’, ‘Jesus Walks’, ‘Blood on the Leaves’, and ‘Gold Digger’ remain some of the beloved hits from the rapper where his lyrics resonate with the beat and transport the listener to an ethereal headspace. However, for WWE wrestler Shaun Ricker aka LA Knight, the Ye song ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing’ from his 2007 album, ‘Graduation’, holds a special place as it helps him connect with his fandom. Speaking on the March 20th episode of Busted Open Radio, Knight highlighted the line “When you try hard is when you die hard”.

On the verge of a crucial WrestleMania fixture against AJ Styles, the 41-year-old explained how he wanted to build a good rapport with his fans without coming off as “corny”. The Ye lyrics helped him realize that “I need to put in effort, but I don’t want to try hard.” Moreover, he exercised his interpretation of the lyrics in real life, wanting his fans to like him as well as stand apart from other famous personalities who “tried too hard to get people to like them.”

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The reinforcement from LA Knight also came at a point when fans stood confused about Kendrick Lamar throwing a shy shade at Ye.

Future and Metro Boomin dropped their latest collaboration, ‘We Don’t Trust You’, on March 20. While the album had its highs and lows, a major chunk of the attention went to pondering over whether Kendrick Lamar had taken a diss at Ye. The outside connection came with the ‘All the Stars’ singer using the same sample from his Ye collaboration ‘Eazy’ to diss Drake and J. Cole in the latest ‘Like That’.

Regardless, the album’s release already brought trouble for ‘Vultures 2’ as several listeners already deemed it worthy of an Album of the Year tag. Moreover, with an LP scheduled to drop in April, before the May 3 drop date of the Ye-Ty Dolla $ign collaboration, major hiccups as well as surprises could well be on their way.

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