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Bully (album)

Bully (album) is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Bully (album) rather than just read about it. In short: Bully is the twelfth studio album by the American rapper and record producer Kanye West. It was released through YZY and Gamma on March 28, 2026.

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Reference excerpt

Bully is the twelfth studio album by the American rapper and record producer Kanye West. It was released through YZY and Gamma on March 28, 2026. Guest appearances include Travis Scott, André Troutman, Nine Vicious, CeeLo Green, and Peso Pluma; a deluxe edition, released on June 19, adds Lauryn Hill, Don Toliver, and the Wrldfms Tony Williams. Production was handled by West, Troutman, the Legendary Traxster, Nkenge 1x, and 88-Keys, among others. West began working on Bully after the release of Vultures 1 and Vultures 2 (2024), and announced it in September 2024. He surprise released multiple work-in-progress versions via X on March 18, 2025, accompanied by the Bully V1 short film, directed by West and edited by Hype Williams. It stars West's son, Saint, who fights New Japan Pro-Wrestling wrestlers with a toy mallet. Following Bully V1, West delayed the album several times while promoting it with two extended play previews in June 2025. In March 2026, he released the album on physical formats. Shortly after, he premiered it at a listening party in Inglewood livestreamed on YouTube, which was then removed. Hours later, Bully was released to streaming services with a different tracklist, along with the music video for "Father". Sonically, Bully extensively relies on sampling and interpolations, and West mostly sings instead of rapping. The album features industrial-based production and tracks reminiscent of West's early work, with the lyrics centered on grief, isolation, ego, detachment, and emotional fatigue. Most of West's vocals in the Bully V1 and physical releases were artificial intelligence-generated audio deepfakes. West re-recorded most lyrics with his own vocals for the final release. He updated the mixing and added appearances by Hill, Toliver, and Williams for the deluxe edition. Bully polarized critics, who praised the production but were divided over whether it was a return to form for West or overly imitative of his past work. It debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 behind BTS's Arirang, and topped the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and US Independent Albums charts. The album debuted at the top five in multiple other countries. Following its release, West embarked on the international Ye Live Concert Tour, starting with two concerts at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, in early April.

Background According to producer Mike Dean, West began working on the Bully song "Beauty and the Beast" during the sessions for his tenth album Donda (2021). West offered the song "Preacher Man" to Drake, who declined, before incorporating it into Bully. In 2024, West collaborated with the American singer Ty Dolla Sign to release the collaborative albums Vultures 1 and Vultures 2 as ¥$. Vultures 1 was subject to mixed reviews, while Vultures 2 was panned for being released in an unfinished state and its use of artificial intelligence (AI). Producer Erick Sermon said that West had been working on a solo album, before putting it aside to work on Vultures. Sermon claimed he contributed to this album during 2023, though West later denied his story, messaging a fan account to state there was no album in development with the name Sermon gave. During his performance at the Wuyuan River Stadium in Haikou, China, after the release of Vultures 2 on September 28, 2024, West announced Bully, previewing "Beauty and the Beast" and "Preacher Man". He posted previews on Instagram and his website over the next few days.

Production

Following the Vultures releases, record producer Digital Nas shared text messages from West indicating his intention to go into "full art studio mode". On September 26, 2024, West posted a video on Instagram showing himself using an ASR-10 keyboard to create "Preacher Man", which had been previewed at listening events. American music journalist Touré reported that Bully would be a concept album inspired by West's solitude living in Tokyo, with West as its sole producer. He further stated it was common for other producers and writers to help West while he came up with the overall concept for previous albums, in contrast to this period of a "fresh chapter in his life" where he is able to be whoever he wants. Though Touré claimed that West worked on Bully by himself and effectively lived in isolation, West invited collaborators Don Toliver and Baby Keem to Tokyo the same month as the report, and mentioned on an April 2025 livestream with Digital Nas that the album featured co-writing from Quentin Miller, Ty Dolla Sign, Toliver, Malik Yusef, and Billy Walsh. In October 2024, Japanese musician Yojiro Noda of Radwimps was invited to do live instrumentation for the album, with him and a band of session musicians contributing to the tracks "Beauty and the Beast", "Bully", "Circles", "Highs and Lows", and "White Lines" on the final album. Engineer Josh Schuback began working on tracks after being invited to a studio session where West was creating beats on an ASR-10 for Cyhi the Prynce. In 2025, during the production of Bully, West entered a manic episode, made antisemitic, pro-Nazi, and racist remarks, and began working on the unreleased album Cuck with Dave Blunts. The song "All the Love" originated during the Cuck sessions before it was moved to Bully. According to Rolling Stone, West finished recording Bully before his Wall Street Journal apology for antisemitic statements in January 2026.

Bully V1

Bully V1 are early versions of Bully, announced through West's X account, and exclusively released through YouTube and Apple Music on March 18, 2025. Bully V1 is accompanied by a black-and-white short film of the same name, directed by West and edited by Hype Williams. It contains nine or ten songs, depending on the version, with different track listings for each release. The film opens with "Preacher Man" regardless of version, while the "post Hype version" features "Circles" and "Bully" as the fourth and fifth tracks, respectively. Other songs include "Highs and Lows" and "Last Breath". "Melrose", featuring West's frequent collaborators Playboi Carti and Ty Dolla Sign, is the tenth and final track on the version West released on X but is absent from the YouTube upload.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Bully (album)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Bully (album) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Bully (album) before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Bully (album) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Bully (album)

In research: Bully (album) appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Bully (album) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Bully (album) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2020s concept albums, 2020s demo albums, 2026 albums, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Bully (album) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Bully (album) in simple terms?

Bully is the twelfth studio album by the American rapper and record producer Kanye West. It was released through YZY and Gamma on March 28, 2026.

Why does Bully (album) matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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