Kanye West has dropped an early version of his new album Bully on select streaming services, but not in the way you might think.
Over the weekend, the controversial rap legend released the unfinished project as a 45-minute music video on YouTube and Apple Music.
Titled “BULLY V1,” the video is the same short film that Kanye leaked last week in the midst of yet another explosive rant on social media.
The black-and-white visual, shot by Ye and edited by Hype Williams, follows the rapper’s nine-year-old son Saint as he takes on waves of wrestlers with a mallet in the ring.
Where the streaming version differs, however, is in the music itself.
BULLY V1 features nine songs instead of 10, with the Playboi Carti and Ty Dolla $ign-assisted “Melrose” being cut from the tracklist due to Kanye’s issues with the two artists.
The sequencing is largely reworked as well as several tracks appear in a different order. The only guest on this version is Mexican star Peso Pluma who features on “Last Breath,” which finds Ye partly rapping in Spanish.
Production credits have yet to be revealed, but Yeezy previously said that he had “chopped every beat with my bare hand” for his 11th LP.
Rich with vintage soul samples, emotive loops and dusty, boom bap drums that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Griselda record, it features some of the Chicago native’s best production in years.
However, the same effort wasn’t put into the vocals, with AI technology being used to record roughly half of the singing-heavy album, as Kanye himself admitted.
The G.O.O.D. Music founder previously said that Bully would be officially released on June 15 to coincide with his daughter North’s birthday.
However, it’s unclear if that’s still the plan, especially given his recent comments on social media about potentially boycotting streaming services with future releases.
Also unclear is the planned third installment in his Vultures trilogy with Ty Dolla $ign, who he has taken shots at in recent weeks along with other collaborators and contemporaries.
Painful to my ears to listen to. Another dud from kanye
Then why did you and why comment here?
Really? You’re king Kendrick loved it and considers it a masterpiece.
@Plefa Listening to something is how a person determines if they like it or not so that was pretty stupid of you. And as far as commenting on it here? Because they can.
He produced I Am Music did you hate that? I swear all you want to do is hate. Why are you here?
Why Kanye fans always assume because you don’t like those shit sandwiches he calls albums, means you have to like Kendricks music? You know there’s more than 4 artist on the entire planet but I guess when you have no friends and meat ride for a hobby, you assume Kanye, Kendrick, Drake and Carti are the only artist on the entire planet.
Who. Cares. Idk why you care. Or why others care. Just like whatever you like. Rap beef between pop stars and radio rappers is so lame.
You ignore he did numbers with the YouTube video over 2.7 million views in a day! Also Vultures 1 had great production what are you talking about? You guys are just zionist haters!
You ever consider maybe there isn’t shit else on YouTube at the moment, stupid?
More excited for Donda 3 or Vultures 3 whichever he releases. Donda series is great and if it’s Vultures 3 hopefully we get that YoungBoy collab finally.
I feel sorry for your ears.
Fecal matter this guy, his music and 3 of his kids💯
There was a time I’d be all over it, but O I won’t even give it a spin because he’s a Holocaust supporter.
@G I’m curious which nations or leaders throughout history that you personally support. Can you name some? I’m willing to bet they have had something to do with killing innocent civilians en mass as well. Gen0cide and slavery are some exclusive things. Stalin doesn’t get nearly as demonized as H1tler, yet way more people died at the hands of the communists.
I’m a lefty Canadian, so I’ll give you Jean Chretien as one name. Not a supporter of the USA and their current dictator.
Plenty of evil in history just the same, not denying that, but downplaying this stuff and pretending it wasn’t that bad or whatever is dangerous because young and ignorant people follow Kanye and peddle the same nonsense. Millions of people being put to death in the worst of circumstances should always get the proper attention and education.
Bruh, you likely support slavery lol. We all know China has mad slaves… but I bet you willfully purchase Chinese goods, so don’t gimme that “I care about humanity” bullshit.
False equivalency BS and you’re talking to the wrong person in that regard.
If you want to try to normalize the murder of 11+ million people like what happened during the holocaust purely because of their ethnicity, like Kanye does, you’re an awful person.
I don’t get it. Why do people want to make it seem like it wasn’t a big deal. It was as awful as anything that’s ever happened on this planet. The colonization of the America’s and slavery are right there with it, but the Holocaust was 100% pure evil. The evil that men do.
Y’all ignore the fact it was #1 trending on YouTube with almost 3M views in 1 day and now #1 music video on iTunes and top 6 in Apple Music! Don’t ever question thr king! This isn’t even the final album this is version 1.
The entire album only available on YouTube and barely gets any views. Most mainstream rappers get more with an audio single lol
thats what im sayin. not even on spotify and the whole album on yt not even getting high views
It could be the best album ever but I will never listen to this skitzo
C00Nye dropping secret albums now for his fan of privately racist basement dwellers 🤣 No bitches checkin for this bullshit.
3.8 million views on youtube in 48 hours. Now an album nobody cared about qas Snoops and Dres missionary. The track with 50 cent and Eminem only has 2.1 milliom hits after 3 months, on Snoops official youtube account and on the official album playlist
You can pull up your stats and pokemon cards all you want dork. Thats 3.8 million f8gs and snitches. No real n1ggas on deck.
The bots in this section go crazy. Clear their zionists mad at a non conformists success. Go get them Ye!
Tate dropped a new snippet
Another piece of shit by a piece of shit. Break his jaw again.