{"id":371721,"date":"2026-03-29T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:10:07","slug":"james-blake-requests-removal-from-kanye-wests-bully-production-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371721\/","title":{"rendered":"James Blake Requests Removal From Kanye West\u2019s Bully Production Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4639-kanye-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West<\/a> released his long-delayed album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kanye-west-releases-bully\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bully<\/a> on Friday, March 29, supporting the release with four listening parties and a YouTube live stream before putting the album on DSPs over the weekend. The nearly two-year Bully rollout has been replete with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kanye-west-says-his-new-album-bully-uses-no-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road bumps<\/a>, and now, producer <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/28425-james-blake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Blake<\/a> says he has asked to have his name removed from the credits on the album\u2019s closing track \u201cThis One Here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Blake, who explained the situation on his direct-to-fan music platform <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/vault.fm\/jamesblake\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/vault.fm\/jamesblake\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/vault.fm\/jamesblake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vault<\/a>, the version of the song that appears on the album features some of his original construction and vocal pitching, but \u201cthe spirit\u201d of his original production \u201cis mostly absent.\u201d Blake is currently credited as a co-writer on the track alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/don-toliver\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Toliver<\/a>, Quentin Miller, and West, who now goes by Ye. Blake and Ye <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/1720794\/james-blake-talks-2015-lp-kanye-west-collaboration\/news\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/stereogum.com\/1720794\/james-blake-talks-2015-lp-kanye-west-collaboration\/news&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/1720794\/james-blake-talks-2015-lp-kanye-west-collaboration\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously collaborated<\/a> on an LP in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy original version is a completely different production in spirit,\u201d Blake wrote of \u201cThis One Here.\u201d \u201cHappy for the fans but I\u2019ve asked to be taken off the producer credits for now as I don\u2019t want to take credit for other people\u2019s work and this version isn\u2019t what I created with Ye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not personal!\u201d Blake concluded. \u201cI just hit a point where don\u2019t want to be credited on music where I can\u2019t affect the end result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bully, out now via YZY and the independent label Gamma, is Ye\u2019s first new LP since 2024 and features Nine Vicious, Travis Scott, CeeLo Green, Andr\u00e9 Troutman,\u00a0Peso Pluma, Don Toliver, and Ty Dolla Sign. Blake released his latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/james-blake-trying-times\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trying Times<\/a>, earlier this month via his label <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/james-blake-announces-trying-times\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Boy Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West released his long-delayed album Bully on Friday, March 29, supporting the release with four listening parties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,166774,26614,43,1905,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-371721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-james-blake","13":"tag-kanye-west","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","16":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371721","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=371721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}