Ye Shares New Song ‘Beauty & the Beast,’ Says Album ‘Bully’ Is Coming

Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) recently had a Vultures listening party at Wuyuan River Stadium in Haikou, Hainan, China where he debuted a new song and announced a new sold album. “I got a new album coming out,” he told those in attendance. “The album is called Bully and this song is called ‘Beauty and the Beast.’”

He posted a trippy live video on his Instagram with the caption, “Live from Haikou. Updated from Tokyo. Ran the ASR through the SP 1200. Bully on the way.” The song, entitled “Beauty and the Beast,” takes a much more somber tone than his recent work with collaborator Ty Dolla $ign. Ye sings about having “fresh new tires” and mentions how he’s trying control his emotions in order to “keep [his] audience up.”

According to an Instagram video posted by journalist Touré, Ye is now living in Japan and is looking to handle the majority of the production on Bully himself. “Kanye is now living in Tokyo and living in a hotel hard at work on his next album Bully. He’s recording the album in the hotel room. Like, all the machines are set up in the hotel room.”

Adding, “It’s a concept album and he plans to be the only producer on it. Traditionally, Kanye is the product of a team, there are producers helping him, there are writers helping him, he comes with the big ideas but there’s others in. Not this time. This time, Kanye is gonna make this pretty much by himself. A fresh chapter in his life because in Tokyo he can be who he wants to be.”

Also, while in China, Ye shouted Drake out for writing the chorus of “Yikes” from his 2018 album ye. We will be sure to keep you updated once he announces the Bully release date.