{"id":561285,"date":"2026-03-26T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:22:09","slug":"kanye-west-says-his-new-album-bully-uses-no-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561285\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Says His New Album Bully Uses \u201cNo AI\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye West<\/a> has rebuked claims that his long-teased next album, Bully, was made with the help of generative AI. In an X<\/a> post shared on Wednesday, March 25, the rapper revealed a track list for the album\u2014which features 13 songs, including previously-previewed tracks like \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d and \u201cPreacher Man\u201d\u2014with the caption \u201cBULLY ON THE WAY NO AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post contradicts statements West made last year in an interview<\/a> with Justin Laboy. At the time, West told Laboy that he incorporated AI into his writing process \u201cthe same way I incorporated Auto-Tune. It\u2019s a tool, not a replacement.\u201d In a video that accompanied the conversation, some viewers noticed that West was using the platform Audimee<\/a>, which allows users to transform their vocals using AI, royalty-free.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s time for me to explain to people the power of AI in music,\u201d West added in the interview. \u201cRight now, you can take any song and separate it\u2014just get the vocals, just get the bass line, the drums\u2014and completely isolate it. So when I send a song or a sample to my engineers, I just say, ‘JS [his engineer, John Scott], AI.\u2019\u201d Since the interview, however, multiple of West\u2019s associates\u2014 including music manager Peter Jideonwo and former Yeezy chief of staff and far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos\u2014have stated that Bully contains no AI.<\/p>\n

West has been teasing Bully since September 2024, when he previewed \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d during a set in Haikou, China. In 2025, West also shared the short film Bully V1<\/a> on X. It starred his son, Saint West, and contained a significant portion of the Bully track list he posted today. Earlier this year, West confirmed<\/a> Bully would arrive on March 20 via the independent music company Gamma. Since that day passed, West has yet to confirm a new release date.<\/p>\n

The two years since West first announced Bully have been tumultuous ones for the embattled rapper. In lat 2024, he was accused of sexual assault<\/a> and sexual battery<\/a> by two separate plaintiffs, and in early 2025, he professed himself a \u201cNazi\u201d and a \u201cracist\u201d in a series of X posts<\/a>. In January of this year, West took out a full-page ad<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his behavior, attributing his actions to bipolar disorder and a frontal-lobe injury he sustained during a 2002 car crash, which West said wasn\u2019t \u201cproperly diagnosed\u201d until 2023. \u201cI\u2019m not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness,\u201d he said. \u201cI write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West has rebuked claims that his long-teased next album, Bully, was made with the help of generative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,5099,44,7604,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-561285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kanye-west","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","15":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}