Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign's collaborative album 'Vultures' will be released on January 12, their reps have confirmed.
The controversial record was originally scheduled to be released on December 15th but never materialized. It has already been delayed twice, having originally been expected to drop on October 13 before being moved to November 3, supposedly to coincide with a “multi-stage listening event” that ended up being cancelled.
Kanye and Ty's collaborative album has been in the works for some time, with Ty telling the public in November that they had just recorded together in Saudi Arabia.
The album is expected to be released under the artist name ¥$ and is said to feature features from Freddie Gibbs, Playboi Carti, Future, James Blake and several others. It was also recently reported that he would be interjecting the Backstreet Boys' “Everybody (Backstreet's Back)” and featuring his own daughter North.
The pair recently ran into trouble, however, when Nicki Minaj refused to come clean about her 'New Body' lyrics. The track was recorded several years ago for an album titled 'Yandhi', which eventually disbanded in 2018.
“Kid, this train has left the station, okay?” he said on Instagram live. “No disrespect in any way, I just dropped a brand new album,” she continued, referring to her recently released Pink Friday 2. “Why should I release a song that's been around for three years? Come children.”
“New Body” is still on the “Vultures” tracklist, according to Apple Music, but contains no mention of a Minaj feature.
West has been embroiled in a number of controversies in the run-up to “Vultures.” The title track referenced West's past anti-Semitic comments with the lyric: “How am I anti-Semitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch.”
Allegations of anti-Semitism were first leveled against West in October 2022 after she said she would condemn Jews, who she claims are related to black people. A former employee at TMZ has also claimed that the rapper once praised “Hitler and the Nazis” during an interview on the site.
It was also reported that the West he was wearing a black KKK style hoodie in one of the listens for 'Vultures'.
His artwork also includes a painting by landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich, who is known as one of Adolf Hitler's favorite artists and whose work was used to promote Nazi ideology. The typography used also bears similarities to that used by black metal band Burzum, whose frontman Varg Vikernes is a convicted murderer and is known to hold neo-Nazi and far-right views.
Meanwhile, West has put his Malibu mansion on the market for $53m (£41.9m), which he is selling at a loss after gutting the interior.
