Rap superstar Kanye West is back nearly a year after suffering a breakdown — making a brief musical appearance in which he appears to keep his feud with Taylor Swift alive .
West, a once omnipresent celebrity with a prolific media presence and high-profile marriage to Kim Kardashian , abruptly ended a tour and was hospitalized in November 2016 after unusual rants on stage.
Making his most visible appearance this year, West contributed a verse on a song released Tuesday by Cyhi The Prynce, an Atlanta rapper whom West earlier signed to his label imprint.
The song, “ Dat Side, ” expounds on the perils of fame and hits back at critics , with West speaking of being African -American in his affluent Los Angeles neighborhood .
“Neighbors said they think I gave the neighborhood a black eye , ” the 40-year-old father of two raps .
He also appears to reference his ongoing rift with Swift . In his 2016 song “Famous , ” West boasts that the pop star may have sex with him as he takes credit for her celebrity — a reference to how he disrupted her at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
Swift voiced anger at the lyric and hit back in “ Look What You Made Me Do , ” a vindictive track released in August.
West on the latest track references the name of the controversial song as he raps : “ The people claim to know you… get famous on you / Then they go and blame it on you / You just good , they can ’ t ignore you. ”
West’ s last major public appearance following his hospitalization came in December when he unexpectedly showed up at Trump Tower in New York to meet then president-elect Donald Trump — whose aides said he was mulling an official role for the rapper .
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