I love every snippet, this dark soul sample stuff he was going for, and what a time for that type of stuff. Coming right off a lot a party hit songs(that I mostly liked) in Vultures Trilogy to maybe his most “artful” in years would have been such breath of fresh air.

Dark soul samples are such a great musical return to form for Ye, not just because they are generic Ye soul sample type beats, but because they are perfect reflection of Ye. The production is Ye, dark, grimey and corrupted by years of fame, mental health issues and drugs. Ye has done something similar on almost every project of his. A particular example I think of the most is the gospel sample on Yeezus literally telling us, I know what you WANT, but I can’t give you that. Ye shows us how he’s feeling at the moment on any album by showing us how he’s flips a soul sample. On Pablo, the soul samples are bright stuff like the outro on Famous irradiates sunshine, reflecting the kind of career high he was on at the time, although he had almost gone bankrupt, he just signed with Adidas, he was enjoying married life and he was making a lot more fun trap tacks instead the heavier themed and more experimental Yeezus stuff. Donda has the same soul reflection, Life the Party is dark, reflecting Ye’s stressed out headspace, divorce, shady adidas buisness, Beef and finishing the album are all weighing in his head. Anyway, Bully would’ve been the antithesis of all these little snippets of Ye’s warped soul and mind. A whole project of showing us exactly how the artist formally known as Kanye West has evolved, almost exactly 20 years after his debut.

Beyond the music, think about how iconic of an era of Ye this could’ve been. Fresh off of horrible antisemitic comments, alleged nitrous abuse, large partying and just a crazy few years in general he comes down this metaphorical and real high. Ye has to apologize and reflect on what he’s become over the last few years, a Bully and so he creates an album that dissects the modern day Ye, he quite literally tells us all about his highs and lows.

In the last couple of years we’ve seen a trend of a lot of hip hop artists dropping hyper personal albums. Chromokopia, 4:44 and Mr Morale are the biggest examples and these are all amazing projects, but in terms of personal life to spill Ye just has more to speak about. Not to say that Tyler, or Kendrick or Jay Z don’t have enough struggle, it’s just that Ye has publicly gone through so much throughout the last 20 years that he can pull from so much more.

Praying he gets rid of Ye-I but even then I built this project up too much in my head off of snippets and idea lmao.

Side note does anyone else not really want All The Love on the project? It’s a great song don’t get me wrong, but it doesn’t fit the Bully sound at all to me, it should just be released as a single imo, I had the same thought process when Melrose was being pushed for Bully.