Kanye West releases first single since his latest big meltdown last year
West released "Vultures" last night, his first track since blowing up his career (for the latest time) with a series of antisemitic comments last year
It’s been nearly a year and a half since Kanye West released a new song—a period that’s seen the artist and producer devolve ever-further into antisemitic rhetoric and general career-wrecking scandal. Now, he’s released a new single for the first time since the latest in what’s really been just a series of big public meltdowns, and…yeah, it’s probably going to be more of the same here, huh?
Per Variety, West debuted the track, “Vultures,” on Chicago’s Power 92 radio station on Friday night. The song features Ty Dolla Sign and Lil Durk, who take the first few verses, but let’s be honest: Everybody was scanning forward to West’s verse to see how bad it was going to get.
Per the typical, it’s a mixture of bragging, defensiveness, and random swings at people: The most eye-catching line (West is careful to drop out the music so you can hear it very clearly) is when he asks “How I’m antisemitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch,” so, yeah, there’s the level of discourse we’re operating at. (He follows that with an attack on former manager Scooter Braun, suggesting he also had sex with Braun’s ex-wise, so it’s real “Sean Connery telling Alex Trebek he had sex with his mother on SNL’s ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’” level-wit on display.)
In fact, almost the entire content of West’s verse on “Vultures” is about all the sex he’s having, a famous topic of conversation among people who are having sex regularly. (“I don’t know who I fucked last night, I got Alzheimer’s,” he asserts at one point, certainly not sounding like the planet’s Most Divorced Man in the process.) So, yeah, in case you were wondering: This is probably not going to be the first entry in a hypothetical “Career rehabilitation” segment of West’s personal Wikipedia page.