{"id":370692,"date":"2026-03-29T01:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:59:06","slug":"kanye-wests-bully-album-all-18-tracks-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370692\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ Album: All 18 Tracks Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cYou know what season it is,\u201d Ye boasts on Bully<\/a> track \u201cKing.\u201d Yeah, Yeezy season has returned, but it feels different this time around for the mercurial artist born Kanye West. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tA typical Kanye album rollout is filled with noise feeding the machine and algorithm, but now that chaos has turned to radio silence. It\u2019s about time the music became the sole focus, as antics have muddied the waters and served as a distraction from his work in the past. <\/p>\n

\n\tWest\u2019s first solo album in more than four years also comes with a brand-new label partnership with Gamma. Ye reunited with an old friend, Larry Jackson, who serves as the independent label\u2019s founder, as they go back to Jackson\u2019s time working as an executive at Apple Music in the mid-2010s.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt this point, no Ye album arrives on the traditional midnight ET release schedule, keeping fans on edge as they repeatedly refresh streaming services. Bully finally hit DSPs early Saturday (March 28), following Thursday night\u2019s (March 26) listening parties across the U.S. (Ye attended L.A.\u2019s).<\/p>\n

\n\tBully is more polished and cohesive than his work in recent years. Ye limited the half-baked ideas and unfinished tracks, thankfully threw away the AI-slop vocals and got back to his roots by chopping up soulful samples on the production side. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a versatile crew of collaborators joining West on Bully, including underground rap favorite Nine Vicious, the legendary CeeLo Green,<\/a> frequent collaborators like Travis Scott<\/a>, Don Toliver<\/a>, Vultures running mate Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>, Peso Pluma<\/a> and Ye\u2019s music director Andr\u00e9 Troutman, who helped steer the ship for Bully\u2018s sonic direction.<\/p>\n

\n\tYe is still working his way back from the damaging string of antisemitic remarks and turbulent behavior that persisted over the course of the last few years. He\u2019s met with rabbis<\/a> and taken out full-page ads in The Wall Street Journal to apologize <\/a>to the Jewish and Black communities for his actions, as he seeks forgiveness and looks to be entering a new chapter of life.<\/p>\n

\n\tPulling on a mix of Yeezy eras with one eye toward the future, Bully\u2018s arrival is a step in the right direction for Ye. Bully funnels into a pair of comeback concerts at SoFi Stadium set for April 1 and April 3, which will serve as West\u2019s first U.S. stadium shows in nearly five years.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are all 18 tracks from Bully ranked.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cDamn\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDamn\u201d wasn\u2019t played during the Bully livestream, but it makes the album\u2019s final cut on DSPs. West sings over stripped-down production about enjoying the ride in front of you, while not worrying about the possibility of crashing. As a survivor of a terrible car accident in 2002, West knows a thing or two about cheating death and moving forward. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cCircles\u201d Feat. Don Toliver<\/p>\n

\n\tDon Toliver reunites with Ye and builds on his dominant 2026 behind his OCTANE album, and it\u2019s still only March. Toliver is one of the most malleable weapons in hip-hop with a unique sound, and Ye has a penchant for deploying collaborators in positions to win. Unfortunately, \u201cCircles\u201d looks to be more of an interlude moving Bully along, rather than a fully fleshed-out idea.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cLast Breath\u201d Feat. Peso Pluma<\/p>\n

\n\tYe has never been one to box himself into certain genres. He experiments on the Latin side while recruiting the corridos tumbados of Peso Pluma for \u201cLast Breath.\u201d For possibly the first time in his career, Yeezy hops in the booth and puts his Spanish to the test, while harping on a toxic relationship between shots of Clase Azul. With more polishing, this could\u2019ve had the dancefloors on fire uptown.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis a Must\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYe has always kept an open mind to working with the next generation of artists, and here he connects with underground rapper Nine Vicious, who provides background vocals and gives \u201cThis a Must\u201d a menacing twist.<\/p>\n

\n\tRarely one to look back on his success, West recalls the days he was seeking global stardom with 2007\u2019s Graduation. \u201cThis a Must\u201d lives somewhere in the middle of the pack of Bully, and the track may sound familiar to Ye diehards \u2014 as it was recorded under the title \u201cUnlock\u201d with Ty Dolla $ign for the Vultures sessions, but never ended up having an official home.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHighs and Lows\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMuch like the Backstreet Boys-sampling \u201cEverybody\u201d from Vultures, \u201cHighs and Lows\u201d will live in the same bag of what could have been. With French singer Pomme denying use of the original\u2019s sample, West was forced to pivot. Think about how many music moments we\u2019ve been robbed of over clearances over the years. It\u2019s still a solid Bully track, as Ye emotionally pours his heart out to loved ones who have stood by him amid the plethora of controversies he\u2019s been embroiled in.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d was originally played at the Vultures 2 listening party in China, but Mike Dean has alleged the track to actually be a Donda holdover. West seems to be at peace singing between a Mad Lads sample. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming\/ Fresh new tires, I\u2019m still running,\u201d he lightly croons with a sprinkle of the Yeezus deconstruction at his back. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cI Can\u2019t Wait\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a producer, Ye remains unmatched. Here, West meshes a Supremes sample into a melancholic soundscape. Yeezy could go into a coma for a decade, come out, and his production would remain avant-garde and ahead of the pack. Whenever his career seems to be at a crossroads, Ye has been able to lean on music time and time again to bail him out and walk through the fire.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cPreacher Man\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a long road for the soulful \u201cPreacher Man\u201d from the Vultures 2 sessions to finally finding a home on Bully. This is the brash spoken-word flow that should\u2019ve been planted across the album. Ye sneers at the opposition with the kind of cheeky bars we\u2019ve come accustomed to from him, as he calls out a woman for hating sports but still sitting pretty courtside, along with the self-indulgent \u201cI hate that God didn\u2019t make a couple more of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhite Lines\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYe ruminates about the peace and solace he finds in being alone at times. Something the world could probably use more of. With an electronic lift from Andr\u00e9 Troutman, West sings about how he\u2019ll always remain truthful, following his path even when it looks bleak. A Bully palette cleanser, so to speak.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis One Here\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s always darkest before dawn, and West delivers a healing album finisher to close the book on Bully. \u201cThis One Here\u201d has traces back to Ye\u2019s work with James Blake in 2022, but Blake came out on Saturday (March 28) requesting his production credits be removed<\/a> from the song. Blake says it\u2019s nothing personal, but it\u2019s not a true Ye album rollout without some controversy, right? I\u2019m going to be repeating \u201cThis one here, this fire, fire\u201d the rest of the weekend. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cMama\u2019s Favorite\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMake room for \u201cMama\u2019s Favorite\u201d on the mantle of special tracks invoking his late mother, Donda West, alongside \u201cHey Mama\u201d and \u201cOnly One.\u201d Ye\u2019s soft, melodic flow leads into a celestial outro, which features a conversation between a neophyte Yeezy and Donda previously seen in the Jeen-Yuhs documentary. The talk finds Donda instilling her son with the self-confidence that carried him to greatness. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhatever Works\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA similar vibe to \u201cPunch Drunk,\u201d Ye chops a Cissy Houston sample and kicks off \u201cWhatever Works\u201d with a possible reference to his Wall Street Journal ad apologizing to the Jewish and Black communities for the pain he caused in recent years. With a lone 10-bar verse, there\u2019s room for a potent second verse to pierce listeners\u2019 souls and make \u201cWhatever Works\u201d one of the standouts from Bully.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cSisters and Brothers\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA Jonah Thompson sample mixed with fuzzy distortion and stripped-down drums makes for a gloomy backdrop for Ye to parachute into. West finds one of his best pockets on the album, touching on how the public thinks he\u2019s \u201cblacking out like Akon\u201d and forgetting the greatness he\u2019s given to hip-hop. \u201cTake some time off, they act like they don\u2019t remember,\u201d he claims. <\/p>\n

\n\tToward the end of his \u201cSisters and Brothers\u201d verse, there appears to be a shift in Ye\u2019s thinking. In the past, West has been quick to remind everyone \u2014 and Forbes<\/a> \u2014 of his once-billionaire status, but now he\u2019s referring to money as \u201cthe root of all evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cKing\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYe kicks off Bully and it feels like Yeezus just rose again. Production-wise, \u201cKing\u201d mimics elements of the industrialization of West\u2019s 2013 Yeezus album. It\u2019s a promising opening verse from Kanye, who addresses how the hate brought him more love, while friends turned to \u201clost ones\u201d and others treated him like an \u201corphan\u201d in recent years. There\u2019s also a cheeky bar about how MLK paved the way for him to marry Kim Kardashian, and Ye\u2019s gotta be the only person to ever rhyme Gwyneth Paltrow with Harlem drug kingpin Alpo Martinez.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cFather\u201d Feat. Travis Scott<\/p>\n

\n\tTravis Scott was one of the rare superstar artists to not turn their back on Ye in recent years. \u201cFather\u201d introduces angelic church organs, which just feels right at some point on a West album. That glory is flipped into chaotic industrial drums courtesy of legendary Mobb Deep producer Havoc. Yeezy calls back to his hilarious \u201cdo you see this coat?\u201d paparazzi moment and shows up as the \u201cnew me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLa Flame invades the scene, bragging about his lucrative partnerships with Oakley and Nike over production that seems to be in the family tree as his UTOPIA opener \u201cHYAENA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cPunch Drunk\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIs it 2004 again with all of the chipmunk soul samples being chopped by Ye on his ASR keyboard? \u201cPunch Drunk\u201d even features co-production from his daughter, North West, so it\u2019s easy to see how the apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree. With a sub-two-minute runtime, it feels a bit short, with more room on the runway for another hard-hitting verse from Ye to boost \u201cPunch Drunk\u201d from a top-five Bully track to the throne.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBully\u201d Feat. CeeLo Green<\/p>\n

\n\tA cinematic standout title track that could score a scene in Tarantino\u2019s The Hateful Eight western. Ye opens up about how every time he speaks out it leads to the \u201ccastles in th\u0435 sky come down crashing,\u201d and his refusal to completely let go of his ego since it\u2019s one of his creative superpowers. West hands the baton to a thunderous chorus from Goodie Mob\u2019s CeeLo Green to bring \u201cBully\u201d across the finish line. Well done, Mr. West.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAll the Love\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe crown jewel of Bully. \u201cAll the Love\u201d collides the chaos of Yeezus with the electronic genius of Roger Troutman\u2019s talkbox. It\u2019s the pockets of brilliance that keep fans coming back and make them willing to overlook all of the antics, delays and mayhem that come with Kanye. Over two decades into his career, Ye can still push rap\u2019s creative envelope to places none of his peers can. \u201cAll the Love\u201d is the best of Ye, but probably doesn\u2019t reach the commercial heights and stadium status of Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit \u201cCarnival\u201d or Donda\u2018s \u201cOff the Grid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou know what season it is,\u201d Ye boasts on Bully track \u201cKing.\u201d Yeah, Yeezy season has returned, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,1805,61,60,278,633],"class_list":{"0":"post-370692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-genre-hiphop","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-music-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}