Why are we still talking about Kanye?

Kanye is being lowered in his grave: the one he himself dug and can't seem to get out of.

BULLY is a pathetic attempt at running away from his past, at leaving all the pain behind like he says in ALL THE LOVE. The mere name BULLY is how he chooses to minimize his hateful positions.

Ye is desperate on this one, doing all he can to cling onto the remaining hope his fans had for him. This record kicks off with a great sample, warped into Ye's usual ego-stroking rap, but with much less soul, energy, lyricism, and much, much worse beats.

Production and sound

THIS A MUST is a bad try at a rage/Playboi Carti inspired track, and he continues using the same, ugly, ad-lib and beat techniques (Seriously? Nobody vetoed that bass? And those drums? That mixing?) throughout most of the album, killing songs that could've been decent like FATHER with Travis Scott.

The production quality is abysmal, there's no cohesion, it all sounds like bad YouTube rips, like unmixed fan edits, put together in something released as an album but with less cohesion than a mixtape. All he does is reference his past projects, and when he does innovate, he's stealing other artists' sounds, poorly. The few standout tracks like ALL THE LOVE and DAMN are not nearly enough to save this project. In nobody's eyes.

There's an Elephant there.

Multiple historical collaborators backed out from working on this project, from Mike Dean which is completely absent, to James Blake which asked to be removed from the credits. CIRCLES originally featured Don Toliver, but after an update on streaming, it no longer does. French artist Pomme refused clearing the sample for HIGHS AND LOWS.

While Kanye denies the use of AI on this project, the original demos and YouTube release had telltale signs of Retrieval Based Voice Conversion (speech to speech), with original vocals being provided by Dave Blunts, CyHi and various other vocalists.

With all the sample clearance, credit attribution and AI speculation chaos, we don't have clear authorship for this project. Did Kanye even sing on half these tracks? We don't know for sure. Mixing is too bad to figure it out either. So unbalanced, and don't get me started on that synth bass.

My Interpretation

On a personal note, the original version of the title track BULLY, nicknamed SEROTONIN by fans, was a clear example of Ye not using his real voice, yet, the unedited sample, the actual Ha-Ha! by Nelson from The Simpsons and the gut-wrenching lyrics about lacking serotonin and dopamine in your system. You know, the chemicals that regulate stimulation and mood... the ones some common medicines regulate for depression and addiction, and ADHD.

He turned that confession about his mental health, one that draws parallels to his infamous ecstasy addiction, into this admission of not having changed, this annoying, soulless chant about yeah, I'm a bully, sorry, I'll always be.

You can change, Kanye, you can come back.

Final notes

This album, along with VULTURES 1 and 2, and all the Ye singles and the run he's been on, going as far as dropping DONDA 2, staining the name of his mother. This is proof you should not listen to anything he dropped after Donda. That's his last good project. He's dead after that.

He spiraled, he was running out of money, his wife didn't come back after Donda, he seeked attention by being a contrarian, he bought a Super Bowl commercial to sell a Swastika T-Shirt, he released a song called HH.

I'm not shocked, I'm not mad. I'm disappointed and tired of this guy.

Kanye is dead.