I swear I hear everyone saying the song released to taunt drake and wasting the beat, but I remember Kanye hyping it up as an Ebro diss, but just trolled tf outta him. Which one is it?

Not Ebro the other yellow dude

I think Ye was just f***ing around before release by hyping up Lift Yourself to be the track that "explains everything" specifically talking to personalities like Ebro who'd been going hard at Kanye over the Trump (and slavery) comments. This was made even more hilarious when the track released and it was just Kanye whoopity scooping for 30 seconds after a minute and a half of instrumental as a sort of "piss off I don't need to explain myself" sorta thing.

It was both

Drake wanted the beat and was asking for it via messages but instead of sending it to him he decided to waste it with the whole scoop thing. That's why the cover art was in iMessage format too.

It wasn't to taunt Drake, Kanye had no reason to do so at the time. Drake wanted the beat, Kanye instead decided to do what he did with it and that's it.

"Waste it"

Bro, u need to chill. And wash your hands

goat kanye moment no cap

Gave the beat to drake than wasted it on a troll track

He did dumbass

Kanye coulda made a crazy song out of it

these tears taste so so good ...

amazing moment

Lift yourself slaps in the corsa

lemme taste ur pagga next... .x

the song was released to troll Ebro's square ass

I think Kanye either forgot/didn't care that he'd given the beat to Drake already

You know how the cover is an audio file sent via iMessage?

Imagine he was sending it to Drake 💀

But he made a crazy song out of it.
Bro, u need to chill. And wash your hands

Supposedly he texted drake “I love you” or some s*** right before he dropped it so he knew

was Kanye deciding that he no longer wanted to be taken seriously as a musician

You need to clean your ears

honestly never mind was influenced by lift yourself

scoop

Wasn’t someone trying to say that Drake wanted it as the beat for “Nice For What” at the time? I personally don’t see how that would’ve worked out lmao.