Kanye West Making Yeezus Sequel?
Kanye West, the 36-year-old rapper who recently released his sixth studio album "Yeezus," may be planning to follow it up with a sequel.
West consulted with renowned producer Rick Rubin before he released "Yeezus" on June 18. In the weeks before West's album release, the producer told the rapper that he should consider making the album into two bodies of work.
"Maybe you should make it more concise. Maybe it is two albums," Rubin told West, according to Newsweek's Daily Beast. "Maybe this is just the first half."
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The publication reported that "Yeezus" started with 16 tracks before being cut down to 10.
Rubin questioned about West definitively following "Yeezus" up with a sequel.
"Might be," Rubin told the Daily Beast.
West's Yeezus debuted with 327,000 copies sold. The rapper's album boasts the third-largest sales week of 2013 thus far, according to Billboard.
The only albums to sell more than Yeezus this year was Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience and Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. Although Yeezus was a top seller this year, it West's lowest selling album to date.
However, the rapper made it clear that he was no longer interested in achieving mainstream success.
West performed at New York City's Governor's Ball Music Festival recently where he ranted to the crowd about not striving for commercial success with Yeezus.
"Honestly at this point, I could give a (expletive) about selling a million records as long as I can put out an album for the summer that y'all can rock to all (expletive) summer," he told his audience at the music festival. "At this point, I don't really give a (expletive) about outside opinions."
The rapper took to the stage at the music festival to perform some new music from his upcoming album and let it be known that he had different plans for promoting his project.
"You know with this album, we ain't drop no single for radio. We ain't got no big NBA campaign or nothing like that. (Expletive), we ain't even got no cover," West revealed to the audience at the festival during his 36th birthday weekend. "Honestly at this point when I listen to radio, that ain't where I wanna be no more."
