Kanye West delays ‘Bully’ album and announces new release date
Kanye West has pushed back the release date for his new album, Bully.
Ye was scheduled to release his new project on January 30th, based on a Spotify countdown. He also listed CDs, vinyl, cassettes, and box sets on his website, while revealing the tracklist.
However, according to Rolling Stone, Bully has been delayed and will now be released on March 20th. The Chicago rapper has reportedly signed a partnership deal with independent music company, Gamma.
Kanye started recording the album over three years ago, releasing a short film with Hype Williams in March 2025. Although it’s unclear when he finished the project, it was complete before January 26th, 2026.
A press release for the album says Bully will find Ye wrestling with “remorse, memory, ego, faith, and consequence” and “using music as storytelling rather than defence.”
Kanye brought up the project earlier this week while claiming that his antisemitism apology letter wasn’t a PR move.
“It’s my understanding that I was in the top 10 most listened-to artists overall in the US on Spotify in 2025, and last week, and most days as well,” he said. “My upcoming album, Bully, is currently one of the most anticipated pre-saves of any album on Spotify, too. My 2007 album, Graduation, was also the most listened-to and streamed hip-hop album of 2025.”
Ye previously compared Bully to Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and music from Gnarls Barkley.
He told Justin LaBoy, “This is more the way I remember Lauryn Hill[‘s] album, the way I remember Miseducation. I feel it is my Miseducation. It is my Gnarls Barkley album. Because Bully has a title and connotation that a lot of people are anti-bully. But I’m just hyper-next-level frequency right now.”