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James Blake Asks Ye to Remove ‘Bully’ Production Credit, But Insists It’s ‘Not Personal’

Rolling Stone·@JonBlistein·2 months ago
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By Jon Blistein James Blake has asked for his production credit to be removed from Kanye West’s new album, Bully, but not for the reasons you’d expect when someone asks to be uncoupled from anything Ye-related these days. Blake is credited on Bully’s final track, “This One Here,” and it’s a song he definitely worked on; Blake confirmed as much when Ye premiered an earlier version of the song at a nightclub event in 2022. But in a message shared on the social media platform Vault, Blake said the “spirit” of his contribution was no longer present in the final cut. “The way I pitched his vocals and constructed the track from his freestyle is partially there, majorly peppered with other newer vocal takes etc,” Blake wrote. “But the spirit of my actual production is mostly absent other than that.…

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