, re-christened Ye, has been well known not only in recent times, for just as well-known of reasons, but for almost time immemorial. His submerging and surfacing, and re-surfacing on social media platforms with his jarring and, ironically, cuck-holding political views. The rapper slash self-proclaimed fashion icon and designer often prescribes to tactics of campaigning that go far and beyond that of a regular in the industry. What was different for his recent most and anticipatory album drop
? Well, nothing and everything
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Ye and the internet have been in a dispute long-standing, but it is also what keeps both the rapper and the audience on their toes.
Ye’s new album: Living or leaking, or living on leaks?
In succession to his all over the place release of ‘Bully’, Ye has now set himself towards the release of his next magnum-opus-esque album, ‘Cuck’. Themes and titles of the album do point towards an elaborate orchestration that seems to act like oracles to the rappers album release, which seems to be in a limbo of whether or not it will be gracing the light of day anytime soon.
Following the thirty-one-minute-long album leaking on YouTube, Ye had simply acknowledged the incident on X saying—”What I love about getting…songs leaked and show cancelled is…it proves everything i am saying and why…
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Short for cuckhold, a self-proclaimed adjective, preceding the leak of ‘Cuck’ Ye’s string of political and extremist jabs has only gotten wilder, following and amidst the gradual release of his twelfth studio album. Ye’s progression of ‘Cuck’ can be traced back to the rapper’s collaborative brainstorming and songwriting with Dave Blunts, mainly for the single, ‘Cousins’. It was way back in March of 2025 when the rapper had himself declared the album to have antisemitic undertones. Regardless, Blunts had tagged the album not to be antisemitic, rather the monologue of a man who has been through hurt.
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Ye’s teasing about his albums has become increasingly more controversial as the years go by.
The world is Ye’s stage, the industry his puppet
Despite being self-aware and always coming round to addressing and confronting the ongoing nature of his odd album promotions, Ye’s history with public address has been questionable. They are often said with an air of glass around them. His flurry of antisemitic comments on X further did not assure an entire stoppage to the rapper’s far from stable perspective, having bashed some of the greatest of all time, from Jay-z, Beyoncé, Playboi Carti, Kendrick Lamar and even Virgil Abloh.
Ye had recently also opened up about feeling ostracized by the music industry, reflecting on his exclusion from Super Bowl performances and past controversies.
The rapper gave three reasons for his unwelcomed presence at the Super Bowl: his infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people
” remark, the 2009 Taylor Swift incident, and wearing a MAGA hat. Ye expressed a sense of betrayal, feeling blacklisted for being ahead of his time. However, despite the anticipation, Ye’s ‘Cuck’ does not seem to be dropping anytime soon.
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