Bully (album)

Bully is a visual album and the upcoming twelfth studio album by the American rapper Kanye West. West announced the album in September 2024 and released multiple work-in-progress versions, with different tracklists, via Twitter in March 2025. These versions feature guest appearances from Peso Pluma, Playboi Carti, and Ty Dolla Sign.

Bully features a short film directed by Hype Williams. It stars West's son, Saint, who fights New Japan Pro-Wrestling wrestlers with a toy mallet. Sonically, the album resembles West's work on 808s & Heartbreak (2008) and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). It extensively relies on sampling and interpolation, and West mostly sings instead of rapping. About half of West's vocals in the original releases are artificial intelligence-generated audio deepfakes, although he intends to re-record the lyrics with his own vocals.

Bully was recorded as West became the subject of controversy for promoting hate speech, including making antisemitic statements, endorsing Nazism, and insulting family and associates, on his Twitter account. While Bully's cover art features Saint, West also shared another cover featuring a red Nazi swastika. West released multiple versions on Twitter on March 18 with no prior announcement, asserting it remained a work in progress. Bully has received positive reviews, with praise for its production.