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Kanye West Was Almost Denied A Feature On YNW Melly 'Mixed Personalities' Collab

March 07, 2022

Kanye West collaborated with YNW Melly on “Mixed Personalities” off his We All Shine album in 2019, but it almost didn’t happen. Melly’s manager 100KTrack broke down the story to Akademiks on the latest episode of his Off the Record podcast.

“We playing music, [YNW Melly] played one or two records, he’s bumping his head,” he said about their studio session in Los Angeles. “Then we play ‘Mixed Personalities’ and he goes crazy. He’s like, ‘Bruh! This is me! This is Ye! This is Kanye! This is Yeezy! This is me!’ So me and Melly looking at each other like, ‘Damn! He fucks with it?’ He’s like, ‘Bruh, I wanna jump on this’ … Melly looked at me and I looked at him. I said, ‘I ain’t gonna lie Ye, you can’t jump on this record.’ On everything I love. I’m not faking it. If you know Ye, call him. This is his reaction. He said, ‘What? Why? No, I gotta jump on this.'”

He continued, “This is two hours of listening to music. I’m giving ideas, he’s giving ideas. At that point, he’s not even Kanye, I’m not Track or he’s Melly. We’re just n-ggas in the studio, you feel me? … He’s like, ‘Why? Why?’ I’m like, ‘Cause look bro. Remember, this is his album we’re playing. We already turned in the music. I already got Cole Bennett about to shoot this video. This is one of the main singles that we believe in.’ I’m not tripping. This is three to four weeks of this album about to come out. We already got the structure. We got the video treatment.”

Kanye West apparently loved the song so much, he was willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

“At this point, I’m like, ‘Bruh, I’ll play more music,'” 100KTrack explained. “[Kanye] said, ‘Nah Track, nah nah. I’m not gonna lie. Whatever I need to do, I’ll get it done’ … We played ‘City Girls.’ We played ‘Rolling Loud.’ I think we played one more song and then I played ‘Mixed Personalities’ … He’s like, ‘This is really me. I’m feeling a connection to it. Look Track, ain’t no managers, nothing. Take my number.’ I get his number, he texted me. He’s like, ‘I’ma do it.’ I said, ‘Look, Ye bro, if you’re gonna do it, you gotta do the video ’cause this is the song we’re about to do a video for.’ He’s like, ‘I’ma clear it. I’ma do the video. Whatever I gotta do to make it happen.'”







Released in January 2019, YNW Melly’s “Mixed Personalities” now has over 333 million Spotify streams and was certified 2x-platinum by July 2020. The song features Kanye West on the hook, along with brief verse.

“I think I got mixed personalities,” Kanye sings on the track. “This bitch switched up my whole mentality/This girl, she got mixed personalities/One day she’s happy, then she mad at me.”

Revisit “Mixed Personalities” below.



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