Kanye West is back.
You thought he was gone, right? But no, here’s a surprise drop overnight of “Vultures 2” with Ty Dolla $ign.
West is an avowed self proclaimed antisemite who admires Hitler. He burned his whole career down to the ground sticking to those proclamatons. He lost all his business deals including the most profitable one, at Adidas.
So it’s only appropriate that he ends the album with these words: Fuck Adidas.
Otherwise, “Vultures 2” is a pretty timid album. It’s mostly about sex — one song is “Slide” (Slide in, would you ride?) and money, and West’s relationships. There’s a lot of material mixed in from his gospel adventures a few years ago. Two of his kids with Kim Kardashian are one innocuous track.
Gone, as far as I can tell, is his old producer, Mike Dean. West has a new group of consorts. A lot of the album is left over from the Vultures 1 project. Todd Rundgren’s vocal, recorded in 2021, is buried in the song, “My Soul.”
West — I will not call him Ye — even gets philosophical on the song “Husband”: “The only thing you really need is a husband
The only thought you ever need is “I trust him” (“I trust him”)
All your dreams, all your goals
It’s promised with this ring I have in my hands (My hands)”
This is not the abrasive Kanye we’ve known in the past:
“Got a plan for us, got a plan to grow
Got a plan for homes, got a plan for bad times
Got a plan for good times, got a plan for hood times
Got a plan for hood crimes, got a plan for trust
Got a plan for lust, got a plan for Beverly Hills (Hills)”
The production value is high. The sampling is low. The rhetoric, aside from the Adidas mention, is kept in control.
Does this change everything that’s gone on for the last several years? No. But West’s fans will be buying this thing up quickly. It’s already number 1 on iTunes.
The whole is here on YouTube, as provided by Kanye:
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