Overview
- West livestreamed the long-delayed album on YouTube early Friday with a black-and-white short film, and the video was later unlisted as the music still did not appear on Spotify or Apple Music.
- He posted a handwritten track list on March 25 with the message “BULLY ON THE WAY NO AI,” countering questions raised by earlier comments about using AI tools and by leaked or unfinished versions.
- Reports listed between 14 and 20 tracks, and outlets named Travis Scott, Ty Dolla $ign, CeeLo Green, Nine Vicious and André Troutman among the contributors and sample-heavy credits.
- The release moved through independent distributor Gamma and was promoted with U.S. listening parties in Los Angeles, including a low-key appearance by West in black leather.
- A Los Angeles jury this week awarded contractor Tony Saxon $140,000 in his case against West, and the album arrives after West’s January Wall Street Journal apology that linked past antisemitic remarks to bipolar disorder and a 2002 car injury.