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Did the world's most famous astrophysicist just diss Kanye West?
While Kanye has been off recording in Wyoming, First We Eat hosted Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Youtube sensation Hot Ones. For those who aren't familiar, Hot Ones is an interview show with an unusual format. As host Sean Evans delivers rapid fire questions, guests have to make their way through 10 hot wings, which get increasingly hotter as they move along.
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Around the halfway point, Evans usually does a segment where he has rappers explain their lyrics. In place of this, he had Tyson give his hot take on a few verses. First up was Kanye's line from Jadakiss' "Gettin It In". The line goes as follows:
"My apologies are you into astrology. Cause, um, I'm trying to make it to Uranus."
Initially it was hard to tell which Neil had a harder time processing: the hot wing or Kanye's lyrics.
He immediately scolded the rapper.
"Most people graduate third grade and get over their anal fixations."
Degrasse Tyson added that Ye's pronunciation was an "abomination" (the pronunciation of the word is actually ura·nus, or "ur-a-ness").
Should we expect a diss track in retort from the volatile Chicago rapper?
It's hardly the first time Kanye has heard the phrase, just look at his lyrics from his track "Power" where Yeezy spits, "They say I was the abomination of Obama's nation. Well that's a pretty bad way to start the conversation."
Watch the full clip above (remarks are at the 12:10 mark). The guy also talked a little shit about handling the hot wings with grace.
This article appears in May 11-18, 2017.