The artists have published the first part of their collaborative album “Vultures” after unexpected postponements
The rappers Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have released the first part of what appears to be a trilogy called “Vultures”. The album came out last Saturday, but it was supposed to be out in December last year. The album has had some unexpected postponements, and finally it was announced the trilogy and the first part is already out for fans to listen.
The figure of Kanye is in itself a great publicity figure due to his controversial name and his role within the industry. However, this has a double purpose, since precisely for this reason many people will be reluctant to spend their money on one of their albums.
Some fans have talked about love and hate, and that is a role that Kanye is very clear about. In some lyrics it is presented as “Crazy, bipolar and anti-Semitic, but I’m still the King”. If the role of queen can be held by figures like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé, who are loved by the majority of the population and hold the part of love, Kanye was clear that his place was to be the king of hate, which also generates sales.
“Let them speak, good or bad, but let them speak” could be Kanye’s star phrase that jumps from controversy to controversy, keeping his name alive in the public and media space. Among the most serious we can find the fight with Taylor Swift, whom he called “Bitch” in a song, his divorce with Kim Kardashian or the more than brief appearances with racist and anti-Semitic messages and, above all, the arrogance and arrogance that characterizes him.
In terms of global data, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign put the album’s 16 songs in the top 60, with the lowest song (‘King’ at #58) getting 2.3 million views and 5.8 million the highest (‘Carnival’ at number 1). In total, it has accumulated 56.6 million views in its first 24 hours on the platform.
And all this has been just with the first part of “Vultures“. To be able to listen to the second of them, we will have to wait until March 8, while the third is scheduled for April 5.
The numbers support Kanye and Ty Dolla who fight to be number one on platforms this week. However, the comments are not as good for the first as for the second. In the reviews, there is a clear idea: The album is saved by Ty Dolla $ign, supporting West so that he does not sink into his own work alone.
The repetitive bases with West‘s superfluous and incoherent lyrics are far surpassed by Dolla‘s lines who, according to the public on social networks, “raps and sings much better.” The entire album is a disorganized chaos with a lack of cohesion and coherence that is sustained by hatred and controversy.
Among the controversies that this first part of the joint album has generated are the appearance of West‘s daughter with Kim Kardashian, North in one of the songs or the use of “I feel love” by Donna Summer in “Good (don’t die). Getting to the point that the singer’s family could be planning to sue.
It is an album with lights and shadows that accentuates the latter with West’s lyrics and the comments he is making once the album is released, leaving Ty Dolla $ign apart from the media view but as the best artist on the project. Some of Kanye‘s most criticized lyrics are “It’s not racism, it’s preference” in “Problematic“, “I’m the new Jesus, bitch” on “Carnival” or the recurrent misogynistic and sexist comments, especially with sexual references and some of them directly, with first and last name, to Taylor Swift, who he says has “helped her success more than the opposite.”
Without a doubt, Kanye and Ty Dolla‘s album has a problem in sound, perhaps too conventional, which does not offer anything good and which also sometimes becomes boring and repetitive. Ty Dolla must be congratulated on his work on the album, because his parts have become the public’s favorites for a reason. The real problem with this album is West and his belief in being king in an ever-changing world where his times of real success are behind him.
We will have to wait for the next parts to see if there are changes with respect to this first installment of “Vultures” and especially if West decides to redeem himself in any of his behaviors or prefers to be the king of social cancellation, as until now.
CREDITS: Text by Gabriel Sánchez
