Malik Yusef Denies Ghostwriting All Of Kanye West’s “Life Of Pablo”
Malik has denied ghostwriting all of Kanye’s album. Chicago spoken-word vet and longtime Kanye West affiliate Malik Yusef recently went public with claims that the Hip Hop great may be bipolar and/or schizophrenic, which is prompting him to release a statement today.
Somewhere along the pipeline (read: social media copy-and-paste-take-as-verbatim rumor mill), accusations of him being the ink for West’s pen in the making of The Life of Pablo have went viral and he’s out to set the record straight.
“I understand that some media (not all) will embellish a story in order to create sensationalism and I’m not against that,” Yusef writes in a statement obtained by HipHopDX. “However, I am against lies, especially when they are used to intentionally hurt, demoralize, discredit character, and intentionally mislead the general public for the purpose of selling a story. I was quoted as saying that I wrote the entire Life of Pablo LP and that’s completely false. When asked about my contribution to the project, I simply stated that I contributed to every song, not that I wrote every song” Yusef explained.
