Four months to the day of its first release, "The Life of Pablo" receives it's final update as Kanye adds the previous leaked (and namesake of his new tour) "Saint Pablo".
Four months to the day of its first release, "The Life of Pablo" receives it's final update as Kanye adds the previous leaked (and namesake of his new tour) "Saint Pablo".
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) June 14, 2016\n \n
Named after the leaked tracked "Saint Pablo", Kanye announces a 21-stop tour to support "The Life of Pablo".
Jump to the following timestamps in the interview, or check out 2DopeBoyz's breakdown of all the topics covered.
\n \n20:40 "Waves" Demo
\n22:40 "Famous" Demo
"The Life of Pablo" recieves a major face lift with changes to nearly every song as the album is released to streaming services.
\n \n\n \n#TLOP has been updated again. This latest version can of course only be heard via Tidal. Crying at "patch notes". pic.twitter.com/P8ZxLrrzrZ
— Civilian At Earth (@MF_Brown) March 31, 2016
See a full breakdown of the changes put together by forum members at r/hiphopheads here.
\nA new song featuring British singer Sampha leaks amid rumors that "The Life of Pablo" is set to come to streaming services Spotify and Apple Music.
\n \nMost streams of the leak are pulled offline (the final version makes its way onto T.L.O.P 3 months later).
Tidal announces "The Life of Pablo" was streamed 250 million times in it's first 10 days of release
The track features an extended version of Kirk's prayer on "Ultralight Tweets".
After alluding to it the day before, Kanye updates "Wolves" on Tidal, re-adding Sia and Vic Mensa's parts from their SNL performance
\n \nFrank Ocean's part is now separated as "Frank's Track"
\nFixing Wolves 2day... Worked on it for 3 weeks. Life Of Pablo is a living breathing changing creative expression. #contemporaryart
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 15, 2016
Looks like the album isn't done yet.
\nChanges include the line "she be Puerto Rican day parade waving" becoming "she in school to be a real estate agent." and more reverb being added to Rihanna's vocals.
\n \nI was thinking about not making CDs ever again... Only streaming
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
\n \nuuuuuuum, so there it is... No more CDs from me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
After offering MP3 download/purchases of T.L.O.P on Tidal, Kanye tweets his plans to stick to streaming moving forward.
New album coming this summer
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
While fans wait for a completed version of "The Life of Pablo", Kanye announces a new untitled album coming this summer.
After a slow weekend with no official album news from Kanye, Kanye premiers a new song presumably off "The Life of Pablo" at 1OAK nightclub in Los Angeles. The track features vocals from Sampha.
Despite millions of illegal downloads, T.L.O.P has no sales to show for it because Tidal hasn't reported stream counts to Nielsen Music.
London based production house Unit Media made the music video for "All Day"/"I Feel Like" available on their website briefly Monday morning. The music video has since been taken down.
The music video was released last May at Paris Fashion Week and also shown in Los Angeles at the LACMA.
Music video description from LACMA:
"Shot by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, the video for Kanye West’s songs “All Day/I Feel Like That” plays upon the relationship between the camera and the subject. As in a meeting between the bull and the matador, it remains unclear who chases whom within the arena. The roles of pursuer and pursued are at times inverted. Shot in a single 9-minute take with natural lighting and minimal context, McQueen accentuates the immediacy and intensity of the performer up close. Every movement of West is seen; every breath felt. It becomes apparent how the song itself fuels West’s performance, from the bravado in “All Day,” to the vulnerability of “I Feel Like That.”
A report out of TMZ states that Kanye's new album has been streamed millions of times on Tidal, and that Tidals subscriber count has grown from 1 million to 2.5 million since the albums "release". This comes afte reports of rampant piracy due to the albums limited availability outside of Tidal.
Drake would come by and just help, no strings. Future also came by to write. We all got new shit together that's gonna drop soon.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 18, 2016
Hype for G.O.O.D Friday continues as Kanye thanks Drake for help on TLOP tracks "30 Hours" and "Father Stretch My Hands", and promises new music from the trio coming out soon.
Season 4 begins. Première Vision pic.twitter.com/LAlvRnlUgG
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 18, 2016
With no official album release date in sight, Kanye announces "Yeezy Season 4". Kanye is far from done.
Several unfinished versions of songs from “The Life of Pablo” leak, including “FML”, “Waves”, “Wolves”, “Fade” and “Highlights”.
Demos of all new songs titled “Fall Out Of Heaven”, “New Angeles”, and “The Mind Is Powerful” also leak.
A CDQ version of “Wolves” featuring verses from Vic Mensa and Sia, previously only heard on the live SNL performance, is leaked.