The rumors arrived on Thursday (Feb. 15) night, and now all the things is confirmed formally. Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign will probably be in Italy subsequent week to current their joint album Vultures 1 at two listening events, one in Milan (Feb. 22) and one other Bologna (Feb. 24).
Introduced as “a hi-fidelity audio expertise,” tickets for the 2 occasions can be found from 3pm CET right this moment (Feb. 16).
Launched after a number of postponements, Vultures 1 has been on the heart of controversy in current days. The problems primarily contain sampling with out permission: Backstreet Boys’ “Everyone” and a stay Ozzy Osbourne efficiency of “Iron Man.” The latter was later changed (on the Vultures 1 tune “Carnival”) by an interpolation of “Hell of a Life” from Ye’s personal My Stunning Darkish Twisted Fantasy.
Lastly, there was a dispute with the Donna Summer season property over the copyright of the tune “I Really feel Love,” sampled on the observe “Good (Don’t Die).” The tune was faraway from streaming platforms yesterday however was later made accessible once more.
For fairly a while there was a particular bond between Kanye West and Italy. Final August he made a controversial look on the Venice Movie Pageant, the place he was photographed together with his trousers pulled down on a ship. Then, on the finish of October, a big live performance was speculated to happen on the RCF Enviornment in Reggio Emilia (an open-air venue with a capability of 100,000 folks). The present was then cancelled, though it was by no means formally introduced.
Lastly, for the music video of the brand new single “Speaking / As soon as Once more,” he relied on an Italian artistic group. Matteo Cocco is director of pictures and the administrators are brothers Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo. The latter have at all times publicly expressed their admiration for Ye’s music.
This text initially appeared on Billboard Italy.