Kanye West either stays low-key or goes big. After months of speculations that he is working on a new album, the 40-year-old rapper went on Twitter on Thursday and confirmed that he will release not one, but two albums.
“My album is 7 songs,” West wrote on his Twitter profile, before revealing June 1st release date.
my album is 7 songs
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
June 1st
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
Shortly after he also announced a collaboration album with Cleveland-born hip-hop artist Kid Cudi, which will be out June 8th. West also wrote that the collab release will be titled Kids See Ghost, which is a name of the group he and Kid Cudi formed.
me and Cudi album June 8th
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
it's called Kids See Ghost. That's the name of our group
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
Kids See Ghost won’t be the first project that will see Kanye West and Kid Cudi joining forces. Cudi’s first two albums, 2009’s Man on the Moon: The End of Day and 2010’s Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, were released on West’s G.O.O.D. Music label and Kanye was featured on both of them. Cudi returned the favor by appearing on all of Kanye’s previous five studio albums.
Kanye West’s most recent release was 2016’s The Life of Pablo, which was positively received and became the rapper’s seventh consecutive number one album at the Billboard 200. Kid Cudi provided vocals on songs “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” and “Waves.”
Shortly after The Life of Pablo was released, Kanye announced he will release an album titled Turbo Grafx 16 in the summer of the same year. That, unfortunately, wasn’t the case but we hope that this time Kanye will stay true to his word.
