Kanye West has revealed that he is releasing a new album.
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The rapper made a surprise appearance during a comedy show by Deon Cole at the Hollywood Improv last night (December 27), where he announced the news.
In clips shared online, Cole invites West onto the stage and introduces him to the audience as “a good friend,” thanking the rapper for attending the show.
After joking about what West thought of the show, Cole then asks him what fans can expect next. “You got anything we could look out for?” Cole says. “No music, no shirts or sweaters or some boots?”
West then responds: “New album,” prompting loud cheers from the room.
Cole then jokingly requests to appear on an interlude on the forthcoming project, and asks if West could send him a care package of clothes, to which West agrees to before exiting the stage.
Ye popped out at Deon Cole’s comedy show last night and confirmed a new album is on the way 🚨 pic.twitter.com/jeanKafFcG
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) December 27, 2025
West’s most recent albums are the 2024 collaborative projects ‘Vultures 1‘ and ‘Vultures 2’ with Ty Dolla $ign.
Since then, West has mainly been in the news for the many anti-Semitic tirades he’s launched online over the past few years, which have seen him be banned from X/Twitter and Instagram multiple times over comments which violate their policies on hate speech.
As well as tirades on social media, Ye also began selling a white T-shirt with a large swastika on the chest earlier this year, leading to Shopify shutting down his Yeezy website. West would then hit out at the move, and claim that he had the idea for the shirt for years.
Before then, he said in a 2023 documentary that he believed Jewish people were working together to “hold him back”, and the year before, he provoked widespread backlash after telling Jewish people to “forgive Hitler”.
That same year, West said that he “doesn’t believe” in the term anti-Semitism, and sparked backlash from the likes of many, including Piers Morgan, who told Ye that he didn’t “think you understand the pain you’ve been causing with some of these comments.”
Others to have hit out at the comments are Jamie Lee Curtis, voice actor John DiMaggio, Diane Warren, and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff. After the widespread condemnation of his tweets, West would then go on to say that he wanted to “hug every Jewish person,” and explained that he was jealous of several aspects of Jewish culture.
He recently met up with a prominent New York rabbi called Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto to “take accountability” for the hurt caused, and apologise for his bipolar disorder allegedly causing him to lash out at the Jewish community.
