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Ye has finally released his new album.<\/p>\n
Kind of.<\/p>\n
According<\/a> to Pitchfork, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West premiered the long-gestating \u201cBully\u201d in a YouTube livestream late Thursday; the new music was also reportedly played at listening sessions in various cities including Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Yet \u201cBully\u201d had yet to appear on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music by Friday morning, and a YouTube page for the livestream said the video was \u201cunavailable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBully\u201d follows Ye\u2019s recent placement of a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal in which he apologized for years of antisemitic remarks and attributed his behavior to medical issues stemming from injuries he sustained in a 2002 car crash.<\/p>\n Clips on social media of what appear to be songs from \u201cBully\u201d reveal collaborations with Travis Scott and CeeLo Green, among others, as well as samples of songs by the Supremes and Stevie Wonder.<\/p>\n Ye has been releasing versions of \u201cBully\u201d \u2014 the rapper\u2019s first solo LP since 2022\u2019s \u201cDonda 2\u201d \u2014 for more than a year; earlier editions of the music reportedly used AI, though Ye said this week on Instagram that the latest version contained \u201cno AI.\u201d<\/p>\n Next week Ye is scheduled to play two concerts at Inglewood\u2019s SoFi Stadium on April 1 and April 3. The shows will come two years after he and Ty Dolla Sign appeared<\/a> at the venue as part of 2024\u2019s Rolling Loud festival.<\/p>\n That date was widely expected to be a performance but turned out to be more of a listening session, with Ye and Ty wandering around a stage in the stadium\u2019s parking lot as songs from their joint album \u201cVultures 1\u201d played through a sound system.<\/p>\n