Kanye West has rebuked claims that his long-teased subsequent album, Bully, was made with the assistance of generative AI. In an X publish shared on Wednesday, March 25, the rapper revealed a monitor listing for the album—which options 13 songs, together with previously-previewed tracks like “Magnificence and the Beast” and “Preacher Man”—with the caption “BULLY ON THE WAY NO AI.”
The publish contradicts statements West made final 12 months in an interview with Justin Laboy. On the time, West advised Laboy that he included AI into his writing course of “the identical means I included Auto-Tune. It’s a instrument, not a substitute.” In a video that accompanied the dialog, some viewers observed that West was utilizing the platform Audimee, which permits customers to rework their vocals utilizing AI, royalty-free.
“It is time for me to clarify to folks the ability of AI in music,” West added within the interview. “Proper now, you possibly can take any track and separate it—simply get the vocals, simply get the bass line, the drums—and fully isolate it. So after I ship a track or a pattern to my engineers, I simply say, ‘JS [his engineer, John Scott], AI.’” For the reason that interview, nevertheless, a number of of West’s associates— together with music supervisor Peter Jideonwo and former Yeezy chief of employees and far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos—have acknowledged that Bully comprises no AI.
West has been teasing Bully since September 2024, when he previewed “Magnificence and the Beast” throughout a set in Haikou, China. In 2025, West additionally shared the quick movie Bully V1 on X. It starred his son, Saint West, and contained a good portion of the Bully monitor listing he posted in the present day. Earlier this 12 months, West confirmed Bully would arrive on March 20 through the impartial music firm Gamma. Since that day handed, West has but to substantiate a brand new launch date.
The 2 years since West first introduced Bully have been tumultuous ones for the embattled rapper. In lat 2024, he was accused of sexual assault and sexual battery by two separate plaintiffs, and in early 2025, he professed himself a “Nazi” and a “racist” in a sequence of X posts. In January of this 12 months, West took out a full-page advert within the Wall Road Journal apologizing for his habits, attributing his actions to bipolar dysfunction and a frontal-lobe damage he sustained throughout a 2002 automobile crash, which West stated wasn’t “correctly identified” till 2023. “I’m not asking for sympathy, or a free move, although I aspire to earn your forgiveness,” he stated. “I write in the present day merely to ask to your persistence and understanding as I discover my means residence.”
