Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "KANYE WEST & TRAVIS SCOTT - FATHER (BULLY)"

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

Linktree: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠⁠Join The Normandy For Ad-Free NME, Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠⁠Analytic Dreamz dives deep into Kanye West’s (Ye) highly anticipated 2026 solo album Bully. Born in 1977 in Chicago, Ye began his career as a producer at Roc-A-Fella Records, contributing major work to The Blueprint before launching his own legendary run. His artistic evolution spans soul-sampled classics like 2004’s The College Dropout, the Auto-Tune innovation of 2008’s 808s & Heartbreak, and the industrial experimentation of 2013’s Yeezus. With 24 Grammy Awards, Ye is celebrated for constant reinvention and polarizing creative shifts. Bully arrived on March 28, 2026, via YZY / Gamma as an 18-track project. The sound returns to heavy soul sampling with influences from Sam Cooke and The Supremes. Development included an early V1 version with AI-generated vocals in 2025, multiple delays from an original June 2025 target, and final re-recording with human vocals. The title draws from a comment by Ye’s son and references to the Larry Clark film. Release featured listening parties and pre-save campaigns. Critical reception is mixed: production earns praise for its strongest soul chops and stadium hooks in years, yet many reviews describe the album as lifeless with weak lyricism and a lack of fresh artistic reset. Pitchfork scored it 3.4/10, with an Album of the Year critic average around 51/100. Commercially, Bully opened with approximately 117,000 first-week units for a Billboard 200 debut at #2, behind ARIRANG. It marks Ye’s first solo album not reaching #1 since 2004 and the lowest opening of his career, though it extends his streak of 14 consecutive Top 2 albums. Streaming dominated with an estimated 50 million Spotify streams on day one, securing the biggest hip-hop streaming debut of 2026 and global #1 album status. Pure sales landed at a career-low ~20,000 units, reflecting the independent model with minimal traditional marketing and heavy reliance on fanbase and DSPs. Physical bundles sold via Yeezy.com. This segment explores the AI vocal controversy, the shift to streaming-first strategy, the production-versus-content divide, and what Bully reveals about Ye’s ongoing career trajectory in 2026.  Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Shepard. Promise me you'll tell them to subscribe for free content. Now, of course, I tried to tell y'all, you know what I'm saying? Shepard. No, I'm just saying, because, you know, at the end of the day, at some point, the Kanye lights, the people who are superstands of Kanye. Shepard. Okay, basically, let me get straight to the point. So, Mr. West, aka Kanye West, is currently on a tour in the U.S., in the U.S.,

Inglewood, California. Now I know what you're probably saying. I thought Kanye couldn't tour in the U.S. until you realize Kanye did go on a sort of an apology tour, but guess what? Fans are still divided. You guys. See, that's the problem. And when you look at his sales, as far as the division, it seems like bully that just came out, if you don't know, this past Saturday, which of course is 18 tracks, 42 minutes in length. Of course, I've already covered it on my podcast. You just type in Kanye analytic dreams

with the Zia should pop up. But at the end of the day to make it, you know, to put it in, long story short, I enjoyed the production, but I felt like the vocals from Kanye himself

was very much lacking. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? So the main reason I say that is because, of course, 18 tracks, 42 minutes in length.

The main thing I wanted to do for this specific segment was to tell you the tracks that are currently outperforming the others on the specific body of work. Of course, you know your boy takes his job very seriously. So as far as getting into the future chart analytics, slated for August 11th, safe to say,

Kanye definitely has a few additions, especially in the top 50 on Billboard. So before we get into that, I do want to let you know that he is currently touring when it comes to other events for the Kanye fans out there. Just know that he did put up a post not too long ago. basically saying that yay it's going to be live at so far stadium as you can see right here analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio but it says two nights only

april 1st april 3rd so far stadium that's already going on but when you look at the merch plus sign vinals obviously that's going on as well it ends today essentially but of course he has future announcements so when it comes to that i just wanted to put that uh that picture up to show you that he is currently touring in the united states but as far as future shows um You have May 23rd and he'll be in New Delhi, which is, I don't even know how to pronounce that. I'm not going to lie to you. Hold on. Let me get Jarvis to pronounce this right quick because I kid you not.

I do not want to butcher this and have those people upset. So let me actually have this read out out loud. Jawa Halal Nehru. All right. You heard that? Hey, I couldn't even try that if I wanted to. You know what I'm saying? All right, my fault.

Let's get back into it. So May 30th, he will be in Kanye will be in Istanbul. June 6 and 8th. he will be in Arnhem Netherlands. June 11th, he'll be in Marcelli, orange velodrome. I think that's how he pronounced it. July 18th, he'll be in Reggio Emilia,

Italy, and RCF Arena. July 30th, he'll be in Madrid. And in August 7th, he'll be in Algarve, Estadio Algarv, which is the latest official run for Kanye as far as the show. Now, the reason why I say that is because, of course, I feel like his fans are not

only turning on him, but the ones who are still there are still in denial. You guys. See, that's the problem. Shout out to those who follow my social media and, of course, specifically my clip channel. As I posted, should Kanye retire on my clip channel, and you would have thought that the ultimate mob was formed against me because people were not going. People were very upset.

I know that ain't who I think it is. As you already know, if a Kanye stands out there, they believe Kanye can do no wrong. So when I talk about Kanye retiring strictly from the vocal standpoint, because his production, in my opinion, is on point. But specifically from the vocal standpoint, I felt like Kanye should retire, especially when his beats are so immaculate. Only the Lord knows what he could do with those immaculate beats

if given to other popular artists, such as... Is it okay? I got my dope on me? And I'm not even going to be biased. Such as the Jack Quees-Webster. He can even give it to side seven, you know what I'm saying? Shepherd. All right, my fault. He can even give it to...

white tank top as far as these immaculent beats to give great lyricists well excluding Travis great lyric is the chance to formulate a track over immaculant beats and that's why i believe coney should retire in the vocal aspect anyways with that being said i did say i was going to get into the best performing tracks off a bully so if you don't know the album is currently out on all dsps when it comes to the streaming overall the album's shaping up to not do that well is it's one of his worst performing albums out the out the gate. Now, don't let Gamma, the label that Kanye is currently signed under, tell you any different. You know, they're going to come out, talk about the streams and things of that nature.

But when you look at the objective units, 20,000 pure sales is the lowest in his career. And that's just objective facts, right? As far as the projection, he's slated to have the number two debut, which would be the first time he missed out on number one since 2004. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip-hop. Like, what's going on? But, to be fair, Kanye still has 14 straight albums in the top two. So it's still a magnificent accomplishment.

When we're talking about superstars, of course, you have to start netpicking when comparing them to other goats in the hip-hop industry. Is it okay? I got my dope on me? Hey, who pressed that button? All right, my fault. So anyways, getting back into the specific track sales off of the album. When you look at the tracks that are performing the best off of bully,

the best performing track right now is currently Father, featuring Travis Scott, shout out to Jack Quees. And then that's slated to be the 22nd most played track in the world. Now, once again, this is future chart analytics slated for April 11th. So Father, as far as the projections, it's slated to be the best performing trackoff of a bully featuring Travis Scott. And then you have All the Love featuring Andre Troutman that's set to be the 27th most played track in the world.

King by Kanye West said to be the 44th. Punch drunk, set to be the 45th. whatever works set to be the 50th and then you have let me see and then you have this is a must set to be the 52nd and then of course you have preacher man let me see why this is just not doing this um okay then you have preacher man set to set to set to be the 59 and then of course you have mama's favorite set to be the 60s uh 60th circle set to be the 61st featuring don tolliver shout to don't tolliver which until you realize apparently his vocals was taken off now i don't know if that was april fools because you know april first was not too long ago but let me make let me do some micky researcher

to fact check that right quick so Kanye don't tolliver let me make sure all right so after pulling it up apparently um i think don't tolliver is still on that and there's a tuition remix with little baby that's out now apparently that's what that's what the reports are saying uh from like let me see making sure it's not a uh you know one of them parody accounts. Okay, no, it's from rap TV themselves. So yeah, Don Tollivan and Little Baby, apparently does the tuition remix out. But anyways, getting back into the best performing tracks. So where was we at? So Circles featuring Don Tolliver is currently the 61st most played track in the world, well, slated to be the first 61st. Bulley by featuring Seelow Green,

set to be the 64th. Hides and lows. It's set to be the 65th, which, you know, listening back to that instrumental, it's top tier. It really goes back to my point on him giving these immaculent beats to other artists and letting them do what they can with it because of course Kanye vocally as of right now it's just not the greatest. You guys. See, that's the problem. Anyways, then we have sisters and brothers

which I think is one of the better beats off of the album that's slated to be the 69th most played track off of the album. I can't wait by Kanye West set to be the, well, no, I'm tripping. Sisters and Brothers by Kanye West is projected to be the 69th most play track in the world. I can't wait

set to be the 75th most played track in the world and then you have last breath which is currently my personal favorite outfit album featuring peso plume of course you know over here we dive into all the genres as far as in the music industry and pace of pluma was definitely a standout for me specifically so last breath is set to be the 81st most play track in the world and you have white lines and uh feature in and Andre troutman again slated to be the 84th most play track in the world you have beauty and a b slated to be the 85th uh and we have oh there's a pg potp But let's just say it's the curse word starting with a deed.

So that's slated to be the 100th. So, you know, Kanye does have a lot of tracks off here, slated to chart in the top 100. Let's see how many. Let's see. One, two, three, four. Let's go over. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. So he currently has 11.

And then let's go over one more time. 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16. So that's a pretty good. percentage honestly you know 18 tracks off of the body of work and 16 out of the 18 the slated to be in the top of hundred i think that's a w and of course when i talk about earlier his sales being the lowest ever we're comparing connier to himself so it's almost like a lebron-esque type of comparison to himself as his past numbers is definitely better out of the gate compared to bully now the overall marketing strategy for bully was there like you saw a lot of drones i've

forget where but you saw a drone spelling out bully you saw Kanye going on an apology tour trying to get people back on his side but at the end of the day i mean even Travis guy and Kanye west was out here dressing up in suits suits ladies and gentlemen as you can see right here analytic dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio as you can see right here these two um let's just say this is part of the marketing strategy now a lot of people are upset about the AI situation and that is why i have this post right here as coni and west literally said no more AI as you can see right here this is on the day of the album coming out he said bully on the way no AI now the reason why pull this up is because you know a lot of

Kanye lights once you know once again is is strictly in denial so when you look at this from Kanye west himself it says bully on the way no AI and once again it's not parody account it wasn't an april fool's joke this is actually from the official account you start to realize that a lot of people are calling out that there is AI on the album. So for Kanye to come out and say no AI, it's almost like he heard people finding out that there's actually AI on the project and he tried to get around it. But at the end of the day, it seems like AI is still on the album. And from listening to it, it's not much that changed. So one of the latest breakings is that the Don Tolliver Little Baby Tuition remix is coming out soon. This whole segment, oh, I think that's for Don Tolliver himself.

Oh, my fault. Yeah, that's for Don Tolliver. It's not even coming. Kanye West. When it comes to Kanye West specifically, I think the collaboration effort is needed for him to strictly be on a producer side. And that's why I keep saying, I think Kanye should retire because the vocal execution is just not there anymore. You can have Black Dot Royce to Five Nine push a tea themselves writing the lyrics. But if you can't execute it in a way that makes it believable, it seems like Kanye West has lost his way, especially when it comes to. that elucating his lyrics, right? So with that being said,

at the end of day, this is not just a bash Kanye segment. I just want to keep it eight more than 92 because even though I think Kanye is one of the greatest musicians of all time, graduation is the greatest run in music history as far as a trilogy album. We still, years later, decades later, we still have to keep it truthful as far as how we are receiving his music.

And as of right now, just don't like it you guys see that's the problem so with that being said click my link to my bio let me know one of my social medias what do you think about Kanye west's bully album do you believe it's immacculine do you think i'm tripping and of course what do you think about the sales projected to go number two for the first time since uh it will miss number one for the first time since 2004 and at the end of the day if you are enjoying the bully album from Kanye what are you most enjoying and of course what is your favorite track off of the album bully Thank you.