Kanye West has had a productive couple of weeks. It all started when he tweeted out two words on May 2: “June Eighteen.” We now know that June 18 will be the release date for the newly-named Yeezus album.
On Friday night, West played a video of his new song, “New Slaves,” on the sides of 66 buildings across the globe. Then on Saturday we learned that his new album will be titled ”Yeezus.” Now we have video of West’s performance on ‘Saturday Night Live’:
It’s like Christmas around here on Thoughts of a Jeanius: Kanye West has new music on THEE way. That new music will come in the form of a new album to be dropped on June 18 — we learned last night — and now we have a name for that album: “Yeezus.”
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Kanye West, 10 major cities, 66 buildings, New Slave!!!!!
NEW SONG AND VISUAL FROM MY NEW ALBUM BEING PROJECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE ON 66 BUILDINGS, LOCATIONS @ KANYEWEST.COM
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 18, 2013
Tonight Kanye West will premiers his latest song across the world on 66 buildings!!!
May Be hitting a city near you!!!
NEW SONG AND VISUAL FROM MY NEW ALBUM BEING PROJECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE ON 66 BUILDINGS, LOCATIONS @ KANYEWEST.COM
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 18, 2013
There aren’t many people that can send out a two word tweet that would make me rush to my laptop and start typing, but Mr. Kanye West surely is one of those people. This morning, about 11 minutes ahead of posting time, Yeezy sent out a two word tweet with a date, so now it’s time for the speculation to begin. We told you a few weeks back that he will be performing on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, which initially led us to believe that new music from Kanye would be coming soon, that was followed by Peter Rosenberg saying that the album was done, describing it as dark: