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<p>With 2024 quickly approaching, <strong>Chaka Khan</strong> won&#8217;t be entering the new year by holding onto a long-standing grudge against <strong>Kanye West</strong>.</p>
<p>Roomies, in case you weren&#8217;t aware, the funk diva hasn&#8217;t exactly been fond of Mr. West ever since he sampled her 1984 song &#8216;Through The Fire.&#8217; 20 years later, the track was reintroduced to music lovers, particularly Hip-Hop fans, when Ye sampled the classic for his 2004 debut album &#8216;The College Dropout.&#8217;</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center">Chaka Khan Didn&#8217;t Give Kanye Permission To Speed Up Her Vocals</h3>
<p>The track, titled &#8216;Through The Wire,&#8217; featured Khan&#8217;s sped-up vocals. But West never asked for her permission to use her voice in such a way, which led her to resent the Grammy winner.</p>
<p>In a recent interview with <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/chaka-khan-retirement-hall-of-fame-kanye-interview-1234926306/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a>, the 70-year-old declared that she has finally let go of her &#8220;silly grudge&#8221; against Ye, indicating her readiness to move on from the past.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m done,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;Please. I&#8217;m not hanging on to any silly grudges.&#8221; She added to her response by elaborating that she didn&#8217;t necessarily listen to Hip-Hop in general.</p>
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<p>Rap artists have commonly sampled songs from the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s, similar to how West did it on his album. But Khan explained that because she wasn&#8217;t in tune with rap music, the singer wasn&#8217;t aware of the fact that sampling other tracks in rap was very common.</p>
<p>&#8220;That was my fault, too, for feeling salty about that in any way,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Because if I understood the rap game more completely, like I do now, then that wouldn&#8217;t have been a big deal to me.&#8221;</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center">Chaka Khan Previously Called Kanye&#8217;s Version &#8220;Stupid&#8221;</h3>
<p>In 2019, Khan revealed her sentiments during a conversation on <strong>Andy Cohen</strong>&#8216;s talk show &#8220;Watch What Happens Live.&#8217;</p>
<p>When asked about her thoughts on West&#8217;s usage of her song, the &#8216;Ain&#8217;t Nobody&#8217; artist didn&#8217;t hold back. When Khan heard the song for the first time, she remembered feeling displeased and proceeded to call West &#8220;stupid&#8221; for altering the pitch of her voice, per <a href="https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-chaka-khan-through-the-wire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">XXL</a>.</p>
<p>She explained that West initially asked permission to use the song shortly after his near-fatal car accident in 2002.</p>
<p>He explained to her that listening to &#8216;TTF&#8217; had helped him navigate through some dark times during his recovery process, suggesting a deeper significance to the sample beyond just featuring Khan&#8217;s vocals.</p>
<p>But the final version unpleasantly surprised her because the song didn&#8217;t sound anything like West&#8217;s initial plan for the track. Khan felt the result didn&#8217;t fit or respect the original piece.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;He called me when he&#8217;d just got out of the hospital. He said: &#8216;You were so instrumental in my healing process. I had to change the words a little bit to the song, but I had to eat through a wire, you know, and I was wired shut, through a straw.&#8217; Blah, blah, blah. &#8216;It meant that much to me.'&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>She concluded, telling Cohen that she would have never agreed to her classic being used in such a manner if she had known how West intended to use her vocals.</p>
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