Kanye West has dropped his new album ‘Bully’ as a short film.
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The controversial rapper took to X (formerly Twitter) to share the album today (March 19). The album is only available in the format of a short film that spans between 30 and 45 minutes. The album is also available in three versions: ‘Latest’, ‘Post Hype’ and ‘Post Post Hype’.
All three versions were shared for free, with the rapper utilising the free software Frame.io, which allows users to comment one videos and download videos for free. Kanye’s post reveals three separate links for the three versions of the ‘Bully’ album, complete with the passwords required to access them.
You can check them out here. It is currently unclear if or when the album will be made available via standard digital streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.
Kanye first announced ‘Bully’ back in September during a listening event in China for his album with Ty Dolla $ign, ‘Vultures 2’, and debuted the song ‘Beauty And The Beast’ from the record.
The album/short film’s release comes after he dropped the new song, ‘Lonely Roads Still Go To Sunshine’ on X/Twitter last week (March 15). In the post, he claimed it featured disgraced rap mogul Diddy, his son Christian “King” Combs, Yeezy artist Jasmine Williams and West’s own 11-year-old daughter, North. The song sparked “war” between Kanye and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, with whom she shares North.
It follows a string of highly controversial posts which saw him rescind his apology to the Jewish community for his past anti-Semitic remarks, and go on to declare himself “a Nazi”.
He also wrote: “I love Hitler”, as well as praise billionaire and X owner Elon Musk as “the most lit person that [has] ever been on Twitter”, following the latter’s accusations of Nazism at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Musk later took to X to respond, writing (via Sky News): “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”
Meanwhile, the controversial rapper seemed to backtrack on his earlier comments, taking to X to share that “after further reflection”, he’s “come to the realisation that I’m not a Nazi”. However, it was followed only a few days later by yet more swastika apparel appearing on his X page.
Since then, he has teased the return of his Sunday Service choir events and posted a picture of a KKK robe on social media.
