{"id":367590,"date":"2026-03-27T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367590\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:42:08","slug":"kanye-west-premieres-bully-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367590\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Premieres Bully | Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye West<\/a>\u2019s Bully is here. The rapper premiered the long-delayed record, which features Travis Scott<\/a> and Nine Vicious<\/a>, live on YouTube about an hour after midnight on March 26. At the tail end of the listening session, he also played an older track, \u201cRunaway,\u201d and EsDeeKid<\/a>\u2019s \u201c4 Raws,\u201d among others. Listen to Bully below.<\/p>\n

West has been teasing Bully since September 2024, the month after he released his most recent album, the Ty Dolla $ign<\/a> collab Vultures 2<\/a>. He has previewed songs from the album, including \u201cPreacher Man\u201d and \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d in Instagram and during shows, including a 2024 set Haikou, China. In 2025, West also shared the short film Bully V1<\/a> on X which starred his son, Saint, who also appears on Bully\u2019s cover. At the time, West said that he made a significant portion of the album using AI, a claim he walked back<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Since the release of Vultures 2, West He was sued for alleged sexual battery<\/a> by a former assistant and sexual assault<\/a> by a model who appeared in one of his music videos in 2024. (In an updated filing in 2025, the assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, said she had gone into hiding due to a swatting campaign she alleged West orchestrated.) Shortly after appearing at the 2025 Grammys red carpet with wife Bianca Censori, he shared a series of hate-filled posts<\/a> on Xm wherein he praised Adolf Hitler, Diddy<\/a>, and Chris Brown<\/a>, and professed himself a \u201cNazi\u201d and \u201cracist.\u201d West\u2019s account was previously suspended from the platform in 2023 over similar<\/a> rhetoric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2026, West took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing<\/a> for his actions, tracing his behavior to bipolar disorder and a brain injury he sustained in a car crash in 2022, which he said wasn\u2019t properly diagnosed until 2023. His statement did not address the allegations of sexual misconduct against him. The ad was paid for by Yeezy and co-signed by company CFO Hussein Lalani.<\/p>\n

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