Wale Admits His Run-In With Kai Cenat Affected His Mental Health

Wale has opened up about his awkward run-in with Kai Cenat on the BET Awards from earlier this yr. Speaking with Shannon Sharpe throughout a current look on his Club Shay Shay podcast, the enduring rapper defined that his psychological well being took a toll after the livestreamer failed to acknowledge him on the occasion.

“Kai Cenat speaking about psychological well being. He will get it now,” Wale mentioned on the present. “Imagine giving your life to this sport, you then go to assist the tradition that you just’ve been part of for 13 years. Then you log on, and everyone’s like, ‘Yo, @KaiCenat, he didn’t know who you had been.’”

Fans on social media have been having combined reactions to Wale’s dealing with of the state of affairs. “Wait is he saying his psychological was affected bc a 23 yr outdated who listens to Michael Jackson didn’t know him?” one consumer wrote on X (previously Twitter). Another added: “Kai was too younger to acknowledge somebody who shouldn’t be as related anymore, additionally Kai doesn’t take note of a variety of stuff when he’s in the course of a stream, which he was. Like simply return underneath the rock you been in bruh.”

The drama started when Kai Cenat mentioned what’s as much as Wale on the BET Awards after which rapidly admitted afterward that he had no concept who the rapper was. Wale later confronted him over the second, saying: “That sh*t making me look loopy now, simply so you already know. That’s making me look crazy, the trade we had within the hallway. I imply, they working with it, however we’ll speak later.” 

Cenat ended up apologizing throughout a later livestream. “I’mma go forward and say to Wale, I hope he didn’t take my interplay private,” he mentioned on the time. “How are you able to blame me from being who I’m? You really feel me? I’m younger!” He then famous that he was solely 9 years outdated when “Lotus Flower Bomb” got here out.