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Kanye West<\/a>\u2018s team have responded to speculation that upcoming record \u2018BULLY\u2019 will feature AI, following the release date and tracklist being shared.<\/p>\n Late last month, the controversial rapper made a surprise appearance at a comedy gig at the Hollywood Improv and announced a new album was coming<\/a>.\u00a0He\u2019d first shared news of \u2018Bully\u2019 back in <\/a>2024 during a listening event in China, where he debuted the song \u2018Beauty And The Beast\u2019 from the record \u2013 which he later went on to share in the form of a short film.<\/p>\n Since then, the album rollout has been characteristically chaotic and delayed, prompting several questions from fans. Chief among them was the release date, which, according to screenshots of emails seemingly from the Yeezy Support team, is due out on January 30.<\/p>\n As for the use of AI on the album, those close to Kanye have denied it. Pete Jideonwo, a music exec thought to be his current manager, can be seen in screenshots circulating X\/Twitter that there would be no AI on \u2018Bully\u2019.<\/p>\n Jideonwo accompanied Ye at a recent meeting with prominent New York rabbi Yosef Pinto to \u201ctake accountability\u201d<\/a> for his anti-Semitic remarks.<\/p>\n Milo Yiannopoulos also took to X to confirm this as well. The far-right British commentator left his role as Yeezy\u2019s former chief of staff left after Kanye announced an adult entertainment division at the company, but is reportedly still very close to his team.<\/p>\n There is no AI on BULLY according to Peter Jideonwo (Ye’s current manager) pic.twitter.com\/YyiE2lT8CY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 yeunrlsd (@yeunrlsd) January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n For those who need to hear it from a white man <\/p>\n No AI on Bully<\/p>\n \u2014 MILO (@Nero) January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Side 1 \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Preacher Man\u2019<\/strong> Side 2 \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018This One Here\u2019<\/strong> The conversation around AI in music is increasing as it floods streaming platforms with no sign of slowing down, much to the dismay of some of the industries biggest names.<\/p>\n In February last year, Kate Bush<\/a>,\u00a0Damon Albarn<\/a>,\u00a0Paul McCartney<\/a>,\u00a0Annie Lennox<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0over 1,000 more artists released a silent album in protest against AI being used in music<\/a>\u00a0and changes to copyright AI laws planned by the UK government.<\/p>\n By the end of 2024, a stark warning was issued in a study that showed\u00a0people working in music were likely to lose a quarter of their income to AI over the next four years<\/a>, and, early this year, streaming platform\u00a0Deezer stated that around 10,000 AI-generated tracks were submitted to the platform daily<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 making up around 10 per cent of all its music uploads.<\/p>\n In May, McCartney,\u00a0Elton John<\/a>,\u00a0Coldplay<\/a>,\u00a0Dua Lipa<\/a>,\u00a0Florence Welch<\/a>, Kate Bush and\u00a0Robbie Williams<\/a>\u00a0were\u00a0among the 400 artists to sign a letter, asking for Keir Starmer to back proposals that would protect copyrighted artistic works from AI infringement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other artists also\u00a0pushed for the PM to protect the work of creatives ahead of a UK-US tech<\/a>\u00a0deal laid out during\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s visit in September.<\/p>\n West has had his own trouble with the software after being dragged into \u201cAI beef\u201d<\/a> when Bhad Bhabie<\/a> and Alabama Barker traded diss tracks last year.<\/p>\n When BULLY drops with no AIpic.twitter.com\/iYWaJRQTrl<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 yeunrlsd (@yeunrlsd) January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n West\u2019s most recent albums are the 2024 collaborative projects \u2018Vultures 1<\/a>\u2018 and \u2018Vultures 2\u2019 with\u00a0Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since then, he has mainly been in the news for the many anti-Semitic tirades he\u2019s launched online over the past few years, which have seen him be banned from X\/Twitter and Instagram multiple times<\/a>\u00a0over comments which violate their policies on hate speech.<\/p>\n As well as tirades on social media, Ye also began selling\u00a0a white T-shirt with a large swastika on the chest<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year, leading to\u00a0Shopify shutting down his Yeezy website<\/a>. West would then hit out at the move, and\u00a0claim that he had the idea for the shirt for years.<\/a><\/p>\n Before then,\u00a0he said in a 2023 documentary that he believed Jewish people were working together to \u201chold him back\u201d<\/a>, and the year before, he provoked widespread backlash after\u00a0telling Jewish people to \u201cforgive Hitler\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n That same year, West\u00a0said that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t believe\u201d in the term anti-Semitism<\/a>, and sparked backlash from the likes of many, including\u00a0Piers Morgan, who told Ye that he didn\u2019t \u201cthink you understand the pain you\u2019ve been causing with some of these comments.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Others to have hit out at the comments are Jamie Lee Curtis, voice actor John DiMaggio,\u00a0Diane Warren<\/a>, and\u00a0Bleachers<\/a>\u00a0frontman\u00a0Jack Antonoff<\/a>. After the widespread condemnation of his tweets,\u00a0West would then go on to say that he wanted to \u201chug every Jewish person,\u201d and explained that he was jealous of several aspects of Jewish culture.<\/a><\/p>\n As aforementioned, the rapper recently met up with a prominent New York rabbi called Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto to \u201ctake accountability\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for the hurt caused, and apologise for his bipolar disorder allegedly causing him to lash out at the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The \u2018Bully\u2019 tracklist Is:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\u2018Beauty And The Beast\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Last Breath\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018White Lines\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018I Can\u2019t Wait\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Bully\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018All The Love\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2018Highs And Lows\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Mission Control\u2019<\/strong>
\u2018Circles\u2019 <\/strong>
\u2018Damn\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n