With a 45-second runtime and poor audio quality, the leaked version of Kanye West's forthcoming single "All Day" would be insignificant by most standards.
But new Kanye is new Kanye, and HotNewHipHop.com says that this is the real deal (click to listen).
In a July interview with GQ, West stated that recording "All Day" made him feel like his Watch The Throne partner, Jay Z.
"I think about certain lines that I say on my new single, which is called 'All Day,' that usually Jay would say, but Jay's not on there," West told GQ. "So I say, 'All day, n***a, it's Ye, n***a. Shopping for the winter, it's just May, n***a. Ball so hard, man, this sh*t cray, n***a. You ain't getting money unless you got eight figures.' Right? Jay would have said that. And then eventually I would have came in with, like, whatever I come in with. But the balance of a meal is that when people walk in, they want water first."
There's no guarantee that the leaked version will sound anything like the final release, but you can definitely hear Jay's caesura-rich style in Ye's flow. While production tidbits are lost to the poor audio quality, the song also appears to switch sonic themes on a dime, something West did a lot on 2013's Yeezus.
The rapper's seventh solo album will be released this autumn, but West is still not sure on an official date. It sounds as if his new family and recent mega-deal with Adidas have slowed down the process.
"I hope I can get one of these songs out in the next couple of weeks, just to have something up and running," West told GQ in July. "But I think most likely September. I go back and forth. Like, should it be September or should it be October? Should it be November? When Beyoncé was working on her last album, she took a while. I was thinking it could somehow come out in June, like Yeezus, and just kill it for the summer. But then I'm like, I have to work on Adidas and be with my child."
