Kanye West’s Bully is here. The rapper premiered the long-delayed record, which features Travis Scott and Nine Vicious, live on YouTube about an hour after midnight on March 26. At the tail end of the listening session, he also played an older track, “Runaway,” and EsDeeKid’s “4 Raws,” among others. Listen to Bully below.
West has been teasing Bully since September 2024, the month after he released his most recent album, the Ty Dolla $ign collab Vultures 2. He has previewed songs from the album, including “Preacher Man” and “Beauty and the Beast,” in Instagram and during shows, including a 2024 set Haikou, China. In 2025, West also shared the short film Bully V1 on X which starred his son, Saint, who also appears on Bully’s cover. At the time, West said that he made a significant portion of the album using AI, a claim he walked back earlier this week.
Since the release of Vultures 2, West He was sued for alleged sexual battery by a former assistant and sexual assault by a model who appeared in one of his music videos in 2024. (In an updated filing in 2025, the assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, said she had gone into hiding due to a swatting campaign she alleged West orchestrated.) Shortly after appearing at the 2025 Grammys red carpet with wife Bianca Censori, he shared a series of hate-filled posts on Xm wherein he praised Adolf Hitler, Diddy, and Chris Brown, and professed himself a “Nazi” and “racist.” West’s account was previously suspended from the platform in 2023 over similar rhetoric.
In 2026, West took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his actions, tracing his behavior to bipolar disorder and a brain injury he sustained in a car crash in 2022, which he said wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023. His statement did not address the allegations of sexual misconduct against him. The ad was paid for by Yeezy and co-signed by company CFO Hussein Lalani.
