By: Ricky Perez Cardoza

Kanye West for the past few years has been in controversy after controversy and has gone completely silent on most platforms because of his comments on Jewish people. This affected Kanye a lot and caused him to lose a lot of his fans and people in his life. He also lost multiple companies working with him, including his bank; all departed from him and he even had his art diploma taken away over the Jewish comments. He lost brands like Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga and had a documentary about him canceled. This was back in late 2022 and now there hasn’t been much on Kanye because he chose to go completely silent for most of 2023.

This has left Kanye radio silent for the past 3 years in terms of music up until recently when we had big news for his upcoming album titled ‘Vultures’ which was originally ‘¥$’. This album rollout has been calmer than his last album rollout for ‘Donda’.

Ye and his best friend right now, Ty Dolla $ign, have been working on this album for approximately 5 months and even if that sounds like not enough time for a good-sounding Ye album, from what’s been previewed recently at his multiple listening parties, it’s all sounding really good and most importantly more finished than his last album ‘Donda 2’.

The album rollout started back in November when pictures of him surfaced it showed Ye working on the album in the desert with a unique environment and architecture. 6 days later, on November 22nd, he dropped his newest song under the name ¥$ called “Vultures”. The song wasn’t that well received and even had a questionable bar by Ye.

After this, Ye had multiple private listening parties where we imagined he previewed music from the album. Later, on December 8th, Ty Dolla $ign dropped the track list for the album and this is also when we knew the title wouldn’t be ‘¥$’ and instead was changed, or was always ‘Vultures’.

On the same day, a video of Ye was posted of him previewing the song “Everybody” which had a sample from the Backstreet Boys and showed the amazing production on it.

One day before the listening party he performed at a club and said that the album was gonna come out that Friday, December 15th, which never happened.

On December 12th, he held a public listening party with tickets costing $2000 in Miami where he previewed a lot of new music. He played a total of 7 songs at this listing party and gave us a lot of information on who would be on the album.

On December 15th, when the album was supposed to be released according to Ye himself, he also revealed that he still hasn’t cleared a verse by Nicki Minaj. She said on an Instagram livestream that she won’t have the verse cleared on the song “New Body” that was a song from way back in 2018 for his unreleased album ‘Yanhdi’. This tweet had everybody sure the album wasn’t gonna drop that night.

On December 16th, he held another listening party that was shut down quickly by authorities because Ye didn’t have the required licenses and permits to have the listening party at the arena. This quickly became a disaster for the people who paid $2000 and waited hours to hear Ye when he was late to the arena. He then had them go to his apartment and that’s where he held the listening party for a short time, and we got 2 new songs and extended snippets of other songs.

The most recent news we’ve had for his album was when his agent said that the album is gonna come out on New Year’s Eve, and also a new rant Ye had on Instagram where he took shots at a lot of people, and is too long to dissect, but responded to a lot of critics including Drake and of news outlets.

As of this time, the album is still not out.