Kanye West has pulled another jaw-dropping stunt by issuing with the notebook. Kanye has announced he didn't develop a single lyric on his next album, 'Cuck.' It is a straightforward poly collection coming from the back of Dave Blunts.
Blunts didn't mince his role or anything. In a recent video, he said with all swagger: "Everything in that album, every song on that album, I wrote that s###! me."
It's not uncommon for artists to work with songwriters, but this is much more than a co-write or a chorus assist. This is full-fledged ghostwriting that comes with a limelight and a megaphone. And Kanye is not only cool with it but also co-signing it.
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Kanye copped to Blunts' claim in an X (read: former Twitter) post, writing, "This is true. We would talk for hours. Then he'd write three songs in a day."
To West, the process was not just transactional but was healing. Discussions led to confessions, and Blunts turned them into lyrics that range from raw to jaw-droppingly graphic.
Blunts characterized the album's emotional core as "one man jumping between hurt, betrayal, and pain, and he's putting that s### down." He also clarified that while the lyrics are a bit loaded, they have "no antisemitic intent."
Now, about clearing the title: the album was initially titled 'WW3,' but recently, at the 11th hour, he changed it to 'Cuck,' a brave, eyebrow-raising move even by Kanye West standards. He called the sound "CUCK." Think Punk Prog Rock Rap Electronic Berlin School Synth." Whether you love it or hate it, it's classic Kanye: genre-busting, boundary-pushing, and impossible to shake.
What track on the album has produced the most controversy? Easily a song called 'Cousins.' The sexually explicit lyrical content, sung by Blunts but grunted out by Kanye, is loud and clear and describes gay sexual experiences as a young child by a male cousin. It's a song that explores a well of trauma and taboo, with lines like:
"Hanging with my cousin reading dirty magazines / We saw some n##### kiss and we ain't know what that s### mean."
"Then we proceed to act out everything that we saw / It was when I gave my cousin's head, that's when it needed to stop,"
In a subsequent post, Kanye discussed the meaning behind the track, saying that his cousin is now serving a life sentence for murdering a pregnant woman.
"This is a song called 'COUSINS' about my cousin who's locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn't 'look at dirty magazines together'."
It could be brave art, a bold refusal to filter himself, or another headlong plunge into self-indulgence and cry-for-help-ism, but 'Cuck' looks likely to be yet another moment on Kanye's career rollercoaster.
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