Kanye West made a rare public appearance in Ireland over the weekend to meet up with longtime friend and potential collaborator Steve Lacy.
On Friday (September 1), the Compton native performed on the first of three nights of the annual Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, County Laois. During his set, Ye was present in the audience and the two were even photographed hugging each another upon linking up.
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According to Kurrco, the Yeezy boss played some new music for Lacy during their time together. Only a brief clip of the song was recorded by an attendee who didn’t even point the camera up, so it seems like it wasn’t a part of Lacy’s performance.
Check out the snippet below:
Kanye West previews new music for Steve Lacy as pair link up in Ireland 👀 https://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/3kyK9nF9jQ
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) September 4, 2023
Kanye West is reportedly back in the studio and hard at work on his new album as new information surrounding the LP’s theme has hit social media.
Yeezy is said to be gearing up for his next release and, according to prominent leaker Insurge, the project is shaping up to be a combination of The College Dropout and The Life of Pablo.
There were other tidbits of info from Insurge, who claimed that Ye and Ty Dolla $ign had a recent studio session with the Opium collective in Italy. He compared finished tracks to a “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy level.”
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The project has “insane” features and is tentatively slated for an October release. Despite Ye’s blacklisting from the music industry, he has apparently been working on a tracklist that under the working title, CHANGE.
It still isn’t clear if the above clip from Electric Picnic was a Kanye exclusive or a joint effort by him and Lacy, or if it will be a part of the Ye’s new album.
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Last year, however, Steve Lacy revealed that he had been in the studio with West, though fans anticipating a collaborative project between the two will have to be patient. TMZ spoke with the “Bad Habits” singer at Los Angeles International Airport last August, and when asked if he’d been in the studio with Ye, he replied: “Always, he never stops.”
He was then asked if the duo have an album cooking up. “Nah, I mean we just got a friendship,” Lacy said. “But I’m around, he’s making stuff around me constantly.”
However, the Gemini Rights crooner did explain the meaning behind the pair’s matching “We Here Forever Technically” tattoos that they got on their left biceps alongside Lil Uzi Vert.
He said the new ink philosophically means: “We’re artists, we never die, technically.”
Kanye West has remained one of Steve Lacy’s staunchest supporters through it all and he even gave the singer some serious praise when Gemini Rights dropped in 2022.
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“Album is beautiful,” Ye, a fellow Gemini, commented on Lacy’s album announcement. “One of the most inspiring people on the planet.”
