Kai Cenat is one of the biggest streamers in the world, and when a clip of him not recognizing rapper Wale went viral, the former MMG artist could not let it go.
In the original clip, Kai is seen walking through an indoor parking lot toward his vehicle, and he daps up Wale, and they briefly exchange words before hopping into the truck.
He then reads the chat on his livestream and sees that thousands of his followers are telling him that he had just exchanged a handshake with Wale, but Kai, who is only 23 years old, has no idea who Wale is.
Kai Cenat ran into Wale on his way to the #BETAwards but didn’t know who he was.
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) June 9, 2025
Later, a clip circulated of Wale confronting Kai at the awards ceremony, accusing him of making him look “crazy.” Kai, who was sitting next to Snoop Dogg and chatting, apologized to him and turned right back to Snoop as an emotional Wale walked off.
Wale confronts Kai Cenat at the BET Awards, telling him he made him look crazy earlier for not recognizing him pic.twitter.com/342kSy1l9B
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) June 10, 2025
Wale joined Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group in 2010, releasing Ambition, which included the Grammy-nominated single “Lotus Flower Bomb.” He followed with two Billboard 200 chart-toppers, The Gifted (2013) and The Album About Nothing (2015). He later released albums Shine (2017) and Wow… That’s Crazy (2019), and Folarin II (2021) and eventually transitioned from MMG to Def Jam Recordings.
Kai Cenat was born in 2001.