ye by Kanye West

ye, Kanye West's eighth studio album, dropped on June 1, 2018, through GOOD Music and Def Jam, and it sounds exactly like what it is: a record torn up and rebuilt in a hurry. West had been working on it since 2017, but after a controversial TMZ interview in May 2018 he started over and finished it in two weeks, out in Jackson Hole as the second of five albums from his Wyoming Sessions, between Pusha T's Daytona and Kids See Ghosts, his team-up with Kid Cudi.

Critics called it rushed and messy, and they weren't wrong, but the rawness is the point. West raps openly about his bipolar disorder, suicidal and homicidal thoughts, women, psychedelic drugs and his fears as a father, while Kid Cudi, Ty Dolla Sign, 070 Shake, Jeremih, Charlie Wilson, PartyNextDoor and Nicki Minaj drift in and out. "Ghost Town" is where it cracks open into something close to catharsis. Reviews ran mostly favorable, and it became his eighth straight album to debut at number one in the US, tying Eminem's record.

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