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Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West is reportedly far from finished with his music-making ways and has another Paul McCartney-assisted collaboration on deck.
According to Taylor Gang’s Ty Dolla $ign, Ye called him up and R&B diva Rihanna for a new track.
“Me, Rihanna, ‘Ye and Paul [Mc Cartney] got a song about to drop as well,” Dolla revealed in an interview. “Yeah. It’s gonna drop soon. I heard they shot the video recently. I don’t know what the final title is, but I know it’s crazy so just be looking out for [it].” (Billboard)
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Kanye’s camp released a statement about what’s to come with West and Paul McCartney earlier this week.
According to a spokesperson for West, “Only One” is the first “publicly available recording from what has become a prolific musical collaboration between these two legendary artists.” McCartney and West began work on the track earlier last year in Los Angeles, starting with, as the statement notes, “a simple brainstorming session between the two, with McCartney improvising on the keyboards and Kanye vocally sketching and shaping ideas in a stream-of-consciousness riff. (Rolling Stone)
Kanye’s team also stressed how much his late mother played in their new “Only One” song’s content.
The lyrics are from the perspective of Kanye’s mother Donda, who died in 2007 after complications from surgery. In a statement, West said he felt that through the lyrics, “my mom was singing to me, and through me to my daughter,” adding that he noted the name “Kanye” means “Only one, (USA Today)
Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian announced the song on social media early New Year’s Day.
ONLY ONE by Kanye West ft Paul McCartney is available on iTunes now! https://t.co/vcILb9hM29 pic.twitter.com/oTfQZmDeb4
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 1, 2015
People always ask me what my favorite Kanye song is and it's Only One. Kanye feels like his mom sang thru him to our daughter.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 1, 2015
Recent reports claimed Kanye would take a break from music-making following the McCartney song’s release.
After his next [collaboration] with Paul McCartney comes out, he’s going to step away from music and concentrate on clothing,” said my source. The sneakers West designed for Nike have become collectibles, selling for thousands of dollars, but West left Nike because he wasn’t making enough money. (Page Six)
Finally some worthwhile Ye news