Once again, we enter YEEZY season. Just over a year and a half since the debacle that was DONDA 2, Kanye “Ye” West is back in the studio, assembling a new album.
You’ll obviously never get official word from Ye himself as to what’s actually going on so interested parties are forced to cull scraps of information about Ye’s next album from tabloids, leakers, and the fastidious YEEZY fan pages that obsess over Ye’s every move like it’s a full-time job.
Here, we’ve compiled every major moment in the development of Ye’s forthcoming music thus far, aside from some mild rumblings.
Speculation about Ye’s new music began in earnest by September 15, 2023, when Ye and Censori made a surprise appearance at London Fashion Week.
Ye and Censori’s destination was a runway show held by ex-YEEZY GAP designer Mowalola, who previously created some custom “clothes” for Censori.
Wearing outré outfits that nearly stole the show, Ye and Censori watched as models walked to a song reported on by Ye fans as new music.
By the end of September, a TMZ source reported that Ye was devotedly producing songs from his Florentine bunker. Supposedly, he’d completed nearly a dozen tracks in under a week, unusually prolific for someone so stingy with his music.
The source also claimed that Ye didn’t have a release date in mind, meaning that the album is likely still a very long ways away.
By the end of September, Ty Dolla $ign previewed another unreleased Ye song during a show in Switzerland.
Ty was soon revealed to be working quite closely with Ye, later traveling to Ye’s makeshift studio in Italy and capturing some footage of a violin player putting some tones to tape.
Then, on October 1, the big reveal.
Well, Ye’s obsessive fans already knew that Ty Dolla $ign was working with Ye, presumably as a producer on the new album, but an in-studio video leaked to tabloids revealed that Ty was more involved than previously thought.
Ye devotees wondered whether the new album would be a collaboration between Ye and…
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