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If your allergies have been acting up, its because Yeezy season is in full swing.
), family (Kim Kardashian West), and industry folk.
The whole thing was livestreamed on a mobile app for those of us averse to the outdoors.
So how do we make sense of the thing?
With this handy, overcomprehensive guide answering all your questions and then some, of course!
How the hell did we get here?
Plenty has changed since then.
For nearly a year, he went dark on social media, only toreturn to Twitterin early April.
Then, on June 1, the seven-song, 23-minute album hit streaming services.
Um, whats this artwork?
(Which might explain why the album didnt hit streaming services until the following morning.)
Does he address his mental health on the album too?
Yes, at length.
/ Thats my superpower, nigga aint no disability / Im a superhero!
On Yikes, he also raps about scaring himself and needing to find help.
What about Trump?
What else did he say?
They say, Build your own, I said, How, Sway?
I said, Slavery a choice, they say, How, Ye?
Whos on it?
Music signee Valee, PartyNextDoor, and more.
She says: Im saying it like, I want a daughter like Nicki.
Aw man, I promise Ima turn her into a monster but no menages.
I dont know how you saying it, but let em hear this.
(Though Nicki isnt credited as a songwriter.)
Drake also makes a surprise appearance, though you wont hear him.
Hes credited as a songwriter on Yikes, which brings new meaning tothat invoice he publicly sent to G.O.O.D.
Musicduring his feud with Pusha-T.
070 Shake?
Along with Valee, shes another new signee to G.O.O.D.
Who made this thing?
Music president Che Pope; Irv Gotti; 7 Aurelius (a.k.a.
He had previouslytold Australian radio station Triple Jthat Kanye asked Parker to send him beats he was working on.
Parker sent him a beat that samples Vanilla Fudges cover of the Supremes You Keep Me Hangin On.
I had this weird premonition of this exact scenario, he said.
Other contributors mostly on songwriting include Bon Ivers Justin Vernon, G.O.O.D.
Talk nerdy to me
You asked, we shall deliver.
As with any Kanye West production, the album contains many samples.
Wouldnt Leave samples Reverend W.A.
Donaldson and Congregations Baptizing Scene, which Kanye previously sampled on his and Jay-Zs Niggas in Paris.
The reverend is credited as a songwriter.
Its inro also contains a sample of Shirley Ann Lees Someday, who is credited as a songwriter.
According toBerlin label PAN, I Thought About Killing You samples Kareem Lotfys Fr3sh, from theMono no awarecompilation.
Ogada is credited as a lyricist, while the Black Savage Bands Mbarack Achieng is credited as a composer.
Yikes also interpolates Juveniles Ha flow.
