Kanye West releases new album through a film starring son Saint West
Published on Mar 19, 2025
By IANS
- LOS ANGELES — Controversial
rapper Kanye West has taken a break from his ranting on X, formerly Twitter, to
release his new album ‘Bully’ via different full-length versions of a film with
editing and topography by famed visionary Hype Williams.
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- The rapper first tweeted a link to the film soundtracked by
‘Bully’, claiming that the album was “not finished and half the vocals AI” but
wanted to test-run what listeners enjoyed, reports ‘Variety’.
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- A few hours later, he tweeted out three iterations of the
‘Bully’ film including a “screening version,” a “post Hype version” and a “post
post Hype version”.
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- As per ‘Variety’, in the films, the rapper’s son Saint is
shown in a wrestling rink, using a mallet to fend off aggressors over the
course of 30 minutes. Those wrestlers include YOH, Toru Yano, Tiger Mask and El
Desperado from New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
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- The album itself is rich with soul samples spanning Cortex’s
‘Huit Octobre 1971’ and the Supremes’ ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’.
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- ‘Bully’ was first announced in September 2024 during a
performance at Wuyuan River Stadium in Haikou, China, where West premiered the
song ‘Beauty and the Beast’. That song ended up on this test version of the
album, which he released amid a flurry of inflammatory tweets that targeted
Jay-Z and Beyoncé and their children.
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- Kanye West explained that he released the album on his X
account because he was trying to skirt the streaming system. He wrote, “I may
stop using DSPs cause streams are fake and the French and Jewish record labels
treat artistse like prostitutes”.
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- He also said that ‘Donda 2’ would arrive next, and asked his
followers if they would prefer ‘Vultures 3’ or ‘Donda 3’. The rapper has been
on a public spiral over the past month, targeting Jews and pulling a bait-and-switch
to sell t-shirts bearing a swastika on his store.
