Kanye West announced last week that he's releasing a new album called Yandhi this Saturday, the same day he's scheduled to perform on Saturday Night Live's season premiere. Today on Twitter he confirmed what most of us suspected: The album will be out Saturday night, presumably around the time of the SNL performance. It's a mode of release Kanye has some experience with; 2016's The Life Of Pablo officially went online for the first time in the wee hours after Kanye's last SNL performance.
In his tweet, he acknowledged that Lil Wayne's long-awaited Tha Carter V, which is due out tonight, will probably outperform Yandhi on the charts. "We know it will come in number 2 to my brother Lil Wayne and that’s lovely," Kanye wrote. "The universe needs Ye and Wayne music at the same time."
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UPDATE: Kanye shared a lengthier Yandhi snippet on Instagram this afternoon.
View this post on InstagramYANDHI 9 29 18 YANDHI IS RELEASING THIS SATURDAY
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UPDATE 2: Here's Kanye's SNL promo where he's still wearing the MAGA hat but a different shirt that says "FREE HOOVER":
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