Kanye West Reveals a Surprising Fact About the Lyrics of 'Ye'!

Kanye West is opening up about the making of his latest studio album, Ye – and just how quickly it came together.

The 41-year-old rapper opened up about his new album in an interview with The New York Times published on Monday (June 25).

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During the interview, Kanye revealed that he hadn’t even written any of the lyrics of his new album until just a week before its release!

“It feels immediate, an in-the-moment emotional reckoning delivered with the alacrity of a mid-2000s mixtape. Perhaps it is not surprising to learn that eight days before its release, Kanye said, he’d had none of the lyrics of Ye written. And he still went to see Deadpool 2. Twice.”

He also addressed his highly controversial TMZ interview, in which he suggested slavery was a choice: “I learned so much. I learned about the context of the idea of the word slave. I didn’t take it in that context. I think that my personality and energy mirrors Nat Turner, or it had in the past, but that showed me that also that Nat Turner approach would land me in the same place Nat Turner landed, and that I would be legendary but also just a martyr. But I guess we’re all martyrs eventually, and we’re all guaranteed to die.”

If you haven’t listened yet, you can stream Ye now.