Ye believes he knows why he was never offered the chance to headline a Super Bowl Halftime Show.
In a tweet shared to his X account on Monday, the artist formerly known as Kanye West boiled it down to several moments in his career that he felt blocked him from playing the big stage.
“I never was allowed to do the Super Bowl because of 3 moments,” he wrote. “George Bush don’t care about black people. The Taylor Swift movement moment. Wearing a MAGA hat.”
“How it feel to be the best living and blocked from the main stage because of being ahead of my time,” he added. “And I mean all of this before I went full Nazi of course.”
Ye’s strained relationship with Jay-Z, who comes up with a shortlist of potential halftime performers via Roc Nation’s partnership with Apple Music, is another potential factor that could keep him from performing at the Big Game.
The closest Ye made it to the opportunity was in 2015 when he co-headlined a pre-Super Bowl concert alongside Rihanna in Glendale, Arizona.
The following year, his fans united behind the hashtag campaign #KanyeWestForSuperBowl51 in hopes of getting him to perform for Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas in 2017. Lady Gaga was chosen to perform that year.
Despite later saying he doesn’t like Kendrick Lamar’s music, Ye praised K.Dot’s Halftime performance, calling it his “favorite halftime show since like the Michael Jackson era.”