Kanye's Bully Album Sparks Controversy

0:00On April 1st, Kanye's latest album, Bully, just dropped as his 12th project, but it hit a rough patch with pitchfork slapping in with a 3.4 out of 10 score. Hardcore fans are vibing to it, hard, yet the wider crowd and critics mostly agree it's a miss. That low mark sparked fire from the distributor, Gamma, who jumped on social media calling out pitchfork like it was some late April Fools gag. Gamma didn't hold back, pointing fingers at pitchfork's track record, like how they underrated Lana Del Rey's born to die with a 5 out of 10 back. In the day, only to quietly bump it up later when it blew up as one of the biggest female day views ever on Doeward. Fans online lit up with some straight up standing Gamma for writing for Y-A-Y like that. Meanwhile, the drama spilled over to Kanye's booking as headliner for wireless festival in 2026. London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, shedded down through his team, saying Y-A-Y's past offensive comments clash hard with the city's values, and this was all on.

1:01The organizers not city hall. The Jewish leadership council piled on to, calling the pick deeply irresponsible amid rising anti-Semitism in the UK, from attacks in Manchester to plots that got foiled. They're stressing how fresh those wounds still feel. All this noise shows Y-A-Y's still stirring the pot, album sales or festival slots be damned, keeps the conversation alive in hip-hop's wild world.