Kanye claims Jay Z did something that ‘tore me to my soul.’

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“Why did Jay-Z have to say ‘no red hat’ on Jail?” Kanye wrote in a now-deleted tweet posted to X on Sunday, April 20. Kanye referred to the song “Jail,” the collaboration that appeared on his 2021 album, Donda.

“That [explicative] tore me to my soul,” he wrote. “We fought about it, and he told me either leave that line on there or take my verse off. Me wearing the red hat was the most stand out example of me going against ‘the program.’ Do you guys think he was instructed to say that?”

In his verse, Jay-Z revisited “Watch The Throne,”his and Kanye’s collaborative album, while referencing West’s tendency to wear a red “Make America Great Again” hat.

“Told him, ‘Stop all of that red cap, we goin’ home,’” rapped Jay-Z. “Not me with all of these sins, castin’ stones / This might be the return of The Throne (Throne) / Hova and Yeezus, like Moses and Jesus.”

Kanye famously wore a red hat when visiting President Donald Trump at the White House in October 2018, one month after he delivered an off-the-cuff, pro-Trump diatribe at the end of the Saturday Night Live season premiere. Kanye also wore his red MAGA hat in promos for his appearance.

“When he grabbed the mic, and was just wandering around, you could see that he was gearing up to say something. I was like, ‘I’m out!’” said Kenan Thompson in Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music. “It would have been cool if he just had did the music thing, and, I don’t know, just spoke through the hat, I guess, ’cause the hat was loud.”

Earlier this month, Kanye faced a public backlash over some controversial tweets he made about Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s youngest children, Rumi and Sir. Kanye used a slur to insult the children’s mental capacity. He later deleted and issued an apology.

“I’m sorry, Jay Z,” he wrote on April 10. “I be feeling bad about my tweet but I still feel I gave my life to this industry and thought so many people were my family but when I needed family on some real [explicative]  none of these rap [explicative] had my back.”