Kanye West released his long-delayed album Bully on Friday, March 29, supporting the release with four listening parties and a YouTube live stream before putting the album on DSPs over the weekend. The nearly two-year Bully rollout has been replete with road bumps, and now, producer James Blake says he has asked to have his name removed from the credits on the album’s closing track “This One Here.”
According to Blake, who explained the situation on his direct-to-fan music platform Vault, the version of the song that appears on the album features some of his original construction and vocal pitching, but “the spirit” of his original production “is mostly absent.” Blake is currently credited as a co-writer on the track alongside Don Toliver, Quentin Miller, and West, who now goes by Ye. Blake and Ye previously collaborated on an LP in 2015.
“My original version is a completely different production in spirit,” Blake wrote of “This One Here.” “Happy for the fans but I’ve asked to be taken off the producer credits for now as I don’t want to take credit for other people’s work and this version isn’t what I created with Ye.”
”It’s not personal!” Blake concluded. “I just hit a point where don’t want to be credited on music where I can’t affect the end result.”
Bully, out now via YZY and the independent label Gamma, is Ye’s first new LP since 2024 and features Nine Vicious, Travis Scott, CeeLo Green, André Troutman, Peso Pluma, Don Toliver, and Ty Dolla Sign. Blake released his latest album, Trying Times, earlier this month via his label Good Boy Records.
