Flying Lotus on Kanye West’s Yeezus: “I Should Have Been On It”

Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, thinks he should’ve worked on Kanye West‘s Yeezus, as he tells Newsweek. “I should have been on it,” he said. “It was kind of weird that I wasn’t. Just being totally real, not on some ego shit…. I was like, ‘They didn’t even call!’”

It’s a fair complaint, given how many people worked on Yeezus. “That’s my favorite one of his albums,” Ellison continued. “I really wish I was part of it.” He also said it wasn’t the only album he missed out on. “There’s a few things that came out that I really wish I was on. I wish I was on that. I wish I was on the Earl [Sweatshirt] album, the Doris album.”

When asked if he’d like to feature Kanye on a future Flying Lotus album, Ellison said, “I’ve been trying, man! I feel like, at this point, it’s been expressed enough. He knows here I’m at.”

In the interview, Ellison was also asked about Thom Yorke, with whom he collaborated on 2010′s Cosmogramma and 2012′s Until the Quiet Comes. “He’s got some shit. Something happening soon,” he said. “I just feel it. Something’s around the corner. I feel it in my bones.” Presumably, he was referring to Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, which received a surprise release at the end of September. But maybe we’ve got another collaboration headed our way. 

Read Nate Patrin’s review of the new Flying Lotus album, You’re Dead!, and check out our most recent interview with him. 

Watch him and Thundercat on an episode of Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”:

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