The Unreleased, Canceled, and Lost Albums of Kanye West

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currently running a discount on their three-year deal for just a dollar 39 cents a month with a 30-day money-back guarantee this is a great deal and it won't last for long so make sure to check out atlas vpn by clicking the link in the description below kanye west has cancelled more albums than he's released anyone who's been following kanye over the last decade knows the cycle he announces a project records it it sounds great it's cancelled yay is currently sitting on a collab with drake a video game album a sequel to jesus and an entire compilation album of top tier musicians we know this because he has one of the worst track records with leaks i have ever seen every single album is accompanied with a flood of leaked instrumentals rough mixes and sometimes even completely finished songs giving fans not only a glimpse at kanye's creative process for his finished albums but the pieces of his scrapped albums allowing us an incomplete look into what each unrealized album might have looked like so today i want to uncover the controversial turbulent ridiculous life and death of the unreleased cancelled and lost albums of kanye west everybody want to know what i would do if i didn't win i guess we'll never know good ass job in 2003 a pre-college dropout kanye secured an interview with mtv and before his debut album was even out the door the dude announced his next three albums i'm calling the next one late registration and my third album is going to be called graduation and the fourth is good ass job good ass job would have been the conclusion to kanye's education themed albums with good ass job likely being about graduating from college getting a job but not liking it and while this is the first time we would hear about the album it's not the first time kanye was a part of something called good ass job the album's name was likely inspired from or directly came from the rhyme fest song good ass job which was released in 2001 featuring kanye throughout his early career kanye would continue to refer to his college series of albums as a quad trilogy with a few mentions and interviews and even being referenced in some of his songs in the college dropout song graduation day john legend sings she wants me to get a good ass job just like everybody and on the life of pablo track ultra light beam chance the rapper says i met kanye west i'm never gonna fail he said let's do a good ass job with chance 3. following graduation good ass job was next on the docket but the next few years would be some of kanye's most trying in november 2007 his mother donda west died during surgery and just months later in early 2008 him and his fiancee alexis pfeiffer would separate these events changed kanye both personally and professionally and his music has never been the same again feeling that his profound emotions could not be conveyed through the same music he was making he scrapped the idea of good ass job and in november 2008 he would drop 808s and heartbreak as his way of coping with the tragedy following 808 kanye once again began working on good ass job even though 808 served as sort of a therapy for kanye 2009 saw the repercussions of his fractured mental state coming through in his most memorable kanye moment yet his infamous taylor swift incident at the vmas i'll let you finish but beyonce had one of the best videos of all time while the industry rumor was that kanye was still working on good ass job after the monumental backlash of the vma incident kanye honestly didn't know if his career would recover so his next album had something to prove once again ditching good ass job this time setting out to make his most ambitious project yet my beautiful dark twisted fantasy in an interview around this time kanye discussed good ass job i remember just changing it because i didn't want to do the good ass job thing and have to stick to the skits and everything that went along with that even though he had a plan from the start for a fourth college album not much is known about his vision for the project during the brief times when good ass job might have been in development a number of tracks were leaked or rumored to have been on the album and some of which were likely even reworked into twisted fantasy or his collab album with jay-z watch the throne but i want to talk about three interesting songs written late into the production of good ass job they were lost in the transition to my beautiful dark twisted fantasy mama's boyfriend flashing lights too and never see me again mama's boyfriend was a track proposed for twisted fantasy that sees its roots in the good ass job era the track has never been officially released but kanye premiered the song on top of a table at the facebook headquarters in california i'm my mama boyfriend i'm a little husband flashing lights too was obviously a sequel to the original flashing lights in 2010 kanye would perform the song live a few times but later that year it was seemingly used by the k-pop group jyj for their track a girl it was believed that the song was sold to the group especially since kanye was featured on the track but it was later discovered that jyj's song sampled an older version of the original flashing lights so even though kanye didn't use the song and neither did jyj the song eventually did see release in some form with the beat being used on drake's find your love and for this next song it does involve mentions of suicide the song never see me again is rumored to have been meant for the last track on his last album before retiring some have even interpreted the song as a suicide note due to its lyrical themes and at the track samples yukio okada who committed suicide at age 18. though the track was never officially released on my beautiful dark twisted fantasy the song see me now can be seen as sort of an uplifting sequel to never see me again somehow after being scrapped twice this still wouldn't be the last we would hear of good ass job in 2018 west made a surprise appearance at chance the rapper's open mic event in chicago on september 17th announcing a collab album between the two me and chance work on a new album the most frustrating part about good ass job is that kanye had a vision for the album but has never gone into what the project might have looked like to me it seems like the reason he and chance would name their album after a long scrap sequel to graduation is because chance was so influenced by kanye's early work and their collab might be a throwback to that sound but 20 years after kanye wrapped on reimfest's good ass job 18 years after we first heard about the album in the interview with mtv and three years after announcing the collab with chance good ass job has never been released and during the making of donda in early 2021 kanye was recorded screaming at chance this doesn't mean the collab won't happen but it's not a good sign i've called this private meeting today because there is a impostor among us jesus too and so help me god before he released his fifth studio album yeezus in 2013 kanye was having a hard time finishing the project bringing on producer rick rubin to help narrow down over three hours of music into a single album reuben said kanye envisioned the album as 16 tracks but convinced him to narrow it down to 10 and kanye even threw around the idea of making yeezus a two-parter when asked if the album still might be happening reuben replied might be following the release of jesus between 2013 and 2015 a series of tracks and track lists were leaked that could have been meant for a jesus sequel in 2017 a mysterious inaccessible private playlist made in 2014 was discovered on spotify created by scihai the prince with six tracks labeled under yeezus2 to my knowledge this playlist has never been accessed but it shows us that by 2014 songs were being recorded that same year album art was being released and kanye began dropping singles that seem to be promoting an upcoming project the track god level was used in may 2014 for an adidas commercial and various versions have been leaked as late as june 2021. the song piss on your grave was recorded during the time but was eventually given to travis scott for his debut album in exchange for the song fml they would appear on kanye's life of pablo in 2014 he released only one as a single written from the perspective of donda [Music] in january west the single four five seconds was released the track was originally meant to be a kanye solo project but was eventually given to rihanna featuring paul mccartney and kanye as yeezus2 seemed to be building up for a release on february 28 2015 kanye announced the album's name as so help me god followed by the release of the single all day now i could honestly make an entire video about all day because of how long and complex the history of this track is but kind of the cliff notes is the song was written by paul mccartney 40 years prior after the birth of his daughter he eventually whistled the melody to kanye during a meeting and he would change the low-key paul mccartney folk-esque track into a bombastic song called all day throughout 2015 parts of the yeezus sequel would leak and it would go through a few name changes like swish and waves before finally being released in 2016 as the life of pablo but featuring none of the singles released over the past two years kanye's never given an explanation for what happened to jesus 2 or so help me god but based on the singles and leaked tracks compared to what we heard on the life of pablo it seems kanye decided on the themes of self-indulgence and ego rather than continuing the industrial themes of yeezus or the more introspective songs we heard on all day and only one that might have been used on so help me god give us three things that are hairy balls balls boss 2010 to 2015 saw a rare time in kanye's life he avoided any major controversy got married had kids and even stopped himself from repeating the taylor swift incident after beck beat out beyonce for album of the year but this would all come crumbling down due to a combination of exhaustion an addiction to opioids and the 2016 robbery of his wife kim kardashian culminating in a breakdown during his saint pablo tour where he would be hospitalized and officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder this time in his life was not only difficult personally but professionally and the next three unreleased albums are a direct result of this trying time in kanye's life drake and kanye's collab album wolves kanye and drake have a long history of collaborations and both have separately proven themselves as some of the most successful acts in hip-hop so the community took interest when in february 2015 kanye off-handedly mentioned a collaboration album between the two in an interview with the breakfast club when he was discussing the song wolves off the life of pablo he said wolves came from a conversation that me and drake had where we was gonna do an album together called wolves i asked drake we talked about it he said he was gonna do it the track was present on kanye's life of pablo album without drake but in a snapchat from producer cashmere cat we can see what appears to be a version of wolves featuring both drake and bjork though bjork has denied any involvement with the project by august kanye seemed sure the album was going to happen he would join drake on stage at the ovo fest and tease the album to the crowd and then go on to tease it again during his saint pablo tour and during his tour a billboard would show up in la reading calabasas is the new abu dhabi with the logos of both drake's and kanye's record labels at the bottom seemed to be a cryptic hint at the collaboration and just when it seemed like everything was coming together kanye would be hospitalized during his saint pablo tour after a series of bizarre rants some of which were aimed at drake in 2017 drake would talk about distancing himself from kanye the two would end up doing some collaborations together but their relationship would completely break down after drake and kanye's close personal friend pusha t started a feud that bled over into kanye and drake's relationship the two have seemed to make up but after how nasty their feud got i have a really hard time seeing the two making an album together george bush doesn't care about black people cruel winter in 2012 through kanye's record label good music the album cruel summer was released a compilation work of musicians on the label featuring the likes of pusha t big sean tiana taylor sai hi the prince kid cudi john legend at common and some of kanye's friends like jay-z and travis scott the compilation was a success going platinum and spawning multiple platinum singles so a follow-up was put in production tentatively titled cruel winter in an interview with travis scott he confirmed he was signed on to be a producer announcing a february 2017 release date this was followed up by the release of the album's first single champions and just like the tracks on cruel summer the song was a success also going platinum but like so many other kanye led projects production on cruel winter would stall after kanye's breakdown during the life of pablo tour and missed its release date but according to good music artist sai hai the prince the album was done and he said they have enough material for cruel winter autumn and spring there are so many songs made during this time by good music's roster of artists that could have been included on cruel winter including songs that made it into future solo releases but there are a few tracks that are either rumored or confirmed to have been meant for cruel winter of course the lead single champions the song cruel winter which would have likely been an intro a 15 minute long remix of designer's song panda featuring every single member of good music the track can't look in my eyes which would feature kid cudi and a sample of a daft punk song from the tron legacy soundtrack this track is often misattributed to kanye's other cancelled album around this time turbo graphics 16 because of its video game vibes the song would ultimately go to kid cudi for his album satellite flight renamed to too bad i have to destroy you now the good thing about cruel winter is that kanye still owns the record label there's nothing stopping him from releasing a new album but virtually nothing has been heard of the project since 2017. i am a god everybody says who does he think he is i just told you who i thought i was a god i just told you turbo graphics 16 a fourth album in kanye's college series sure a collab with drake why not a video game influenced album named turbografx16 what just days after the release of his seventh studio album the life of pablo kanye would go on a twitter rant and in the mix of his take on the grammys he announced his new album turbo graphics 16 named after his favorite video game console when he was a kid due for a summer 2016 release hoping to get it out the door before embarking on his saint pablo tour while it seems way out of left field and it kind of is in the life of pablo there were some subtle hints of video game influences the song facts has a street fighter sample perfect and the song ultra light beam has it incredibly hard to catch csgo reference of a character yelling the next few months would see a number of social media posts showing us the potential features of the album an instagram post titled turbo graphics 16 day one would show that mike dean kid cudi and plain pat were all involved cueva would post a picture of him lil yachty tyler the creator big sean kanye vic menza and offset captioned turbo and in april 2016 hudson mohawk posted a track list of the album that was quickly deleted by the time summer rolled around turbo graphics was still unreleased and kanye began his saint pablo tour that would end in his hospitalization at the ucla medical center despite this major setback turbografx 16 still seemed to be in the works in late 2016 after kanye got out of the hospital pete rock would upload a video of him in the studio with kanye and in the background you can see a sheet of paper with video games listed on it this is believed to have been a list of samples for the album or maybe just inspirations for the project but this would be the last time we would hear about turbo graphics 16 and kanye would turn his attention to his next project love everyone that we'll talk about in just a minute over the years various songs and track lists have been leaked that give us a better understanding of what the album might have looked like and one of the most surprising aspects is that the project wasn't just influenced by video game music but it would have been kanye's most trap influenced album to date this can be seen not only in the features by trap icons like migos but in kanye's flow and some of the leaked tracks the video game influences come through most in the use of synth sounds typical of old school video games again there are a ton of tracks that were recorded around this time that might have been meant for the album so here are some of the highlights hold tight featuring migos and young thug formerly known as black tron the track has leaked and is seemingly complete and it's believed to be the earliest recorded song for turbo graphics 16. the track all eyes on yay that features kanye's trap-esque vocals thought i couldn't not that talk about it that i'm gonna try to get a nut the song would eventually become kid cudi's unreleased track maple can you be a song with a long history of leaks and rumors with it possibly being meant for so help me god turbo graphics and the life of pablo the song seems to have been inspired by the clockwork orange soundtrack and in the tracklist leaked by hudson mohawk the song is even called clockwork orange a few different versions have leaked but because the track was worked on through so many different projects it's believed that there are even more versions that have yet to leak the song forza which was going to be co-produced by tyler the creator the song hasn't leaked yet but the song is confirmed to exist by a few reliable insider sources and what might be the most interesting song from the turbo graphics era welcome to ucla the song is believed to have been written and possibly even recorded while kanye was hospitalized after his life of pablo tour the leaked track is clearly inspired by retro video games but it's likely that it was the last song worked on before turbo graphics 16 was canceled i'm going ucla welcome to ucla this song not only marks the end of the turbografx era but marks the beginning of kanye's next unreleased project love everyone kanye what's the best part about being a dad the kids love everyone kanye scrapped turbografx 16 and on april 28 2018 he announced his new project love everyone with what might be kanye's most wild album covered to date a picture of jan adams the man who's believed to be responsible for the death of his mother dondo west based on the title and the cover the album would likely revolve around forgiveness but jan adams obviously was not too thrilled and on april 30th sent an open letter to kanye asking him not to use his image for the album instead suggesting that the two meet in person to which kanye responded positively to to my knowledge no alternate names or album covers were ever given but kanye seems to have made significant progress on the album even playing the entire project for radio dj charlemage the god but the project would end on may 1st 2018 when kanye played the album at the tmz headquarters and gave them an interview where he would infamously make controversial comments about slavery after the backlash he scrapped love everyone and made yey over the course of a month according to kim kardashian i left to go home for like two days and then i come back and it was a whole new album at least one proposed track list for the album has been leaked and a number of songs have been suggested for love everyone the song yay versus the people a really odd track that was just a debate between t.i and kanye on their contrasting views of donald trump i have a hard time seeing this actually making the album but it was released in the love everyone era the song ecstasy it was first heard in mid-august before jan adams asked kanye not to use his picture and almost made it on both yay and kids sea ghosts you got a sister-in-law you a smash i got four of them what it's been suggested that a real version of lift yourself might have been meant for the album the infamous troll song kanye released whoop dee scoop deep poop poop d scoop d scoop dee boop along with a number of tracks that were reworked into yay i know i know that became i thought about killing you the track someday that became ghost town and the song yikes that was slightly altered for yay the majority of the songs suggested for the album have been leaked but there still remain a few that are lost like the track good featuring pusha t that is confirmed to exist [Music] before i get to kanye's most famous unrealized project i want to mention a few cancelled albums that we don't have a lot of information on donda's boy that was talked about on an episode of the waste your time podcast with producer roy pharrell in 2010 roy interned at def jam records and told of a time when kanye came to their office and played an entire album called donda's boy he claims that the album was a completely reworked version of my beautiful dark twisted fantasy consisting of 10 tracks all 10 minutes long with no features but no one has ever verified roy's stories and producers on the album playing pat and mike dean responded on twitter with confusion child rebel soldier was a super group made up of lupe fiasco kanye and pharrell williams the group formed during a collaboration on the song us placers and would go on to release the single don't stop in 2010 and a remix of the nerd song everyone knows the album was meant to come out in 2010 after watch the throne but this never happened on july 25th 2013 lupe fiasco announced that the project was never happening on twitter the crs group is cancelled done not happening stop asking the album thank god for drugs that was the original name for jesus with a different album cover and likely a few different tracks the song awesome was believed to have been meant for the project that can be partially heard on the keeping up with the kardashians special where kim and kanye get married cause baby you're awesome and the track bound is thought to be meant for the project and eventually was turned into bound to the album shy rack what this album was meant to be is unclear but it might be a proposed title for the kanye led soundtrack for the spikely movie of the same name this theory is plausible as it was reported that kanye was considered for a role in the movie or the album could be an alternate name for jesus 2 which would have been really strange that the album wasn't related to the spike lee movie but named after it a remix of jesus's king tentatively titled jesus's king 2 with dr dre as producer the album was in production at one point with the two being pictured together in the studio various tracks the two worked on together have leaked and would feature eminem and travis scott yay andre have never collaborated before so this would have been a really interesting project to see while all the projects i've mentioned so far won't happen these last two could very well be released in the future the sequels to the collaborative albums watch the throne and kids see ghosts for watch the throne 2 producer mike dean confirmed as early as 2013 that he had signed on to work on a second kanye and jay-z collab album but the two have grown apart in recent years kanye called out jay-z for missing his wedding to kim and even mentioned jay in his infamous saint pablo rant on september 8 2018 kanye tweeted that throne 2 was coming soon and mike dean would tweet 2021 10 years after throne hinting that the album could be coming soon but jay-z has never commented on the project's status and for kids see ghost 2 since the project was such a success and that kanye and kid cudi continue to work with each other a sequel seems very likely in 2019 in an interview with complex cudi said that the two will be making more kids see ghost albums and in 2020 kanye announced that a kids sea ghost animated show was in the works i hope i'm wrong but i have a really hard time seeing this show ever happening even though we do have a bit of a teaser trailer for it and of course the most infamous of all kanye's cancelled projects yandi 2018 saw kanye at his most prolific releasing five major projects in five weeks of each other his own album yay his collab album with kid cudi kid c ghosts and three albums that he would serve as producer on nasser by nos daytona by pusha t and ktse by tiana taylor soon after the release of yay he would announce his ninth studio album on twitter yandy with a release date of september 29th 2018 just three months after the release of yay to coincide with the release of yandi kanye was the musical guest for the 44th season premiere of saturday night live but at the end of the episode kanye gave an infamous unaired rant about his maga hat and the album would go unreleased a few days later he would talk about his rant with tmz and it was clear kanye was not in a much better headspace than he was on snl he told tmz that he did not finish the album and it was rescheduled for a november 23rd release he would go on to call his last album yay superhero rehabilitation while also referring to himself as an alien and a god in november with the release of yandi approaching he would perform with kid cudi after which he announced on twitter that the performance made him realize yandi wasn't ready and he'll announce the release date when it's done at this point kanye's albums being constantly pushed back is to be expected but the official end of yandi came at the beginning of 2019 when kanye began performing with his sunday service choir the choir would perform exclusively christian music including new songs and reworked tracks from kanye's back catalog including songs meant for yandy his work with the group in his own words radically saved him and as a result yandi would turn into jesus as king an album that was met with mixed reviews and is generally regarded as kanye's weakest solo effort to date yandi is kanye's most complete cancelled project and we know this because songs from yandi were leaked throughout its recording and in october 2019 the entire unfinished album was briefly available on spotify and title under the name kanye drop your albums but this is just one of the many iterations the album went through some of the standout tracks meant for yandi include i love it featuring lil pump which would have been on the album if kanye had finished the project as scheduled alien a song that seemingly referenced in his tmz interview where he calls himself an alien and the track likely would have been a single because it slaps a few songs that were reworked into jesus as king like the storm that eventually became everything we need chakras which became salah and laws of attraction that became use this gospel but the two biggest losses from the yandi era are we got love featuring tiana taylor and new body with nicki minaj both tracks were completely finished and entire music videos were shot but have never been released new body in particular gained a huge amount of attention after going viral on tick tock and nicki minaj herself pushed for the song and video to be officially released now i doubt that at any point yandi would have included all of these fantastic tracks since the project went through so many changes but i think it demonstrates just how much potential this album had especially since we can compare a few tracks from yandi to what they would eventually become on jesus is king the song salah sticks out in particular it's one of my favorite tracks on jesus is king but the yandi version is so much better so not only is kanye sitting on a ton of scrapped material but two entire unreleased music videos and given how at odds new body is with his new musical sensibilities i don't see either of these music videos being released anytime soon and the album in my opinion will go down as one of the great what ifs in music history thank you so much for watching i had so much fun making this video i love speculating on what these albums might have looked like and maybe some of these unreleased tracks will even make their way onto kanye's next album donda whenever that drops i was actually going to release this video the same day as donda's release but since we don't know when that's happening anymore i just decided to drop it now hope you enjoyed this is mike with all things lost 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Keywords: Kanye, Donda, Drake, Chance the Rapper

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Length: 27min 59sec (1679 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 13 2021