Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper, Rihanna, Future Featured on Kanye West New Album The Life of Pablo
The new Kanye West album, The Life of Pablo, was launched this afternoon at an event at Madison Square Garden. Kanye played the album off of his laptop as a crowd of models showed off his latest fashion line. The album features Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper, Rihanna, Future, Kirk Franklin, Post Malone, Ty Dolla $ign, Young Thug, The-Dream, Kid Cudi, and more.
Young Thug and Naomi Campbell were models in the show, and guests in the audience included Frank Ocean, the entire Kardashian/Jenner clan, Vic Mensa, Pusha T, Big Sean, and more.
Following the album premiere, Kanye announced that he is launching a video game about his mother ascending to heaven.
The Life of Pablo:
01 Ultra Light Beam
Features Chance the Rapper and new G.O.O.D. Music artist Desiigner.
02 Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1/ Pt. 2
West tweeted the song’s lyrics earlier today. He said, “I cried writing this.” It features Future and production by Metro Boomin.
03 Freestyle 4
04 Famous
This features Rihanna and Swizz Beatz. It contains the lines “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous.” There’s also a sample of Sister Nancy’s “Bam Bam.”
05 Highlights
Features references to Ray J, Rob Kardashian, Blac Chyna, and more. “I bet me and Ray J would be friends / If we ain’t love the same bitch.” This song features Young Thug.
06 Feedback
07 FML
In this song, Kanye alludes to no longer taking Lexapro, a frequently prescribed antidepressant.
08 Real Friends
“Real Friends” was produced by West and features Ty Dolla $ign, with “sample by Frank Dukes and Boi-1da” and drum programming by Havoc. It surfaced January 8 on Soundcloud, only to be taken down (and put back up, and then taken down again, and then put back up again), until finally being uploaded to his website and SoundCloud—for good—the same afternoon.
09 Wolves
Like “Fade“, “Wolves” first surfaced at one of West’s fashion events: the unveiling of the Yeezy Season 1 last February. The song features Frank Ocean, but Sia and Vic Mensa—with whom West performed the track on “Saturday Night Live” just days after its runway debut—appear to have been cut. It features the lines “Cover Nori in the lamb’s wool/We’re surrounded by the fuckin wolves.”
10 “FACTS“
11 Fade
West debuted “Fade” during his Yeezy Season 2 runway show in New York City this past September. The track features Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign.
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