17 Freestyle Demos From Kanye West Floor On-line, Supposedly For Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’
Kanye West famously doesn’t get together with most musicians as of late, so when Kanye claimed Travis took some concepts from him with out due credit score on Utopia, no one actually thought a lot of it.
Nonetheless, in a Rolling Stone article revealed August 2023, journalist Andre Gee explored the connections of Travis Scott’s sound to Kanye.
In the identical article, Gee highlights observations made by author Zazie Bae (for No Bells, an indie rap weblog outlet), the place Bae states that “Utopia feels like a Kanye file as a result of it’s one.” A reasonably sturdy assertion, which was adopted up by the weblog clarifying their not sure stance on the matter. “…we are able to’t declare these particulars to be 100% reality, simply our estimations from what leakers have advised us,” they stated.
However now, reality has seemingly come to gentle as 17 freestyle demos have leaked on-line that function Kanye West rapping, mumbling and scatting for melodic and lyrical concepts. Whereas the correlation between these and Utopia will not be crystal clear, it actually provides some weight to the allegations Kanye made in an interview with Akademiks, as one Reddit consumer (u/DropWatcher) identified in a put up made on r/hiphopheads.
In accordance with Kanye claims, he was unaware that he’d be taken off data solely to get replaced with SZA and Future, with out his permission to to launch stated data. The query stays: how a lot did Travis Scott actually chew off Kanye? Is he actually the form of ‘vulture’ Kanye (and even Pusha T) thinks Travis is? One can solely discover out upon nearer inspection and corelation with the demos which have leaked right here.
