What a Time to Be Alive: Kanye Unleashes Jimmy Fallon & The Roots-referencing "FACTS" Ahead of New Year's Eve 2015-16 (G.O.O.D. Music)

"The

"Wolves"

song came from a conversation that me and

Drake

had, where we was going to do an album together and the album was called

Wolves

... me and

Jay

[started] talking about

Watch The Throne

, then

Drake

went and did all the records with

[Lil'] Wayne

and did the tour,"

Kanye

unexpectedly revealed to

The Breakfast Club

radio host and one-time

Catfish

co-detective

Charlamagne The God

last February on the heels of his spirited

SNL 40

medley. Lest we forget that

Kanye

once produced

Drake

's

808's & Heartbreak

-reminiscent

"Find Your Love;"

making

Kanye

's recent "

Yeezy

, Yeezy, Yeezy, just jumped over

Jumpman

"

What a Time to Be Alive

interpolation and apparent

Drake

diss all the more perplexing. Not entirely unlike

Paul McCartney

-assisted

"Only One"

released over

New Year's Eve 2014-15

,

"FACTS"

was quietly uploaded to

Soundcloud

mere hours ahead of this year's annual

New Year's

festivities.

Metro Boomin & Southside

-produced

"FACTS"

likely stems from the same sessions that previously yielded

"All Day,"

"FourFiveSeconds,"

"Only One,"

and the aforementioned

Sia & Vic Mensa

-assisted

"Wolves,"

which will apparently all re-appear within

Kanye

's long-rumored

Yeezus

(2013) follow-up

SWISH

; having been described as "cookout music that feels good," even likened to the

Nebraska

to his

Born In The USA

, and "about embracing the music and embracing joy and [the] joy of being of the service to the people."

"I stuck to my roots, I'm like

Jimmy Fallon

/ I ain't dropped the album, but the shoes went platinum,"

Kanye

ferociously rhymes on

"FACTS"

making a clever allusion to

Jimmy Fallon

's

Philly

-bred

Late Night & Tonight Show

house band,

The Legendary Hard-workin' Roots Crew

. Throughout the nearly four-minute duration of

"FACTS,"

Mr. West

effortlessly manages to make similar-minded witty allusions to

Bill Cosby

's recent arrest and countless assault charges,

Steve Harvey

's December 20th

Miss Universe

-crowning announcement debacle, his wife

Kim Kardashian-West

's newly-launched custom

Kimojis

, and his previous

Yeezy

negotiations with with

Nike

: "Nike, Nike treat employees just like slaves."

Metro Boomin & Southside

chose a particularly menacing, lurching into and outro sample lifted from

Funk-Soul

group

Father's Children

's 2011

Numero Group

album

WHO'S GONNA SAVE THE WORLD?

that goes a little something like, "Dirt and grime and filth inside. The story of my lifetime... of cheating, stealing, never feeling. Pain of a brother, your dirty mother. Ha, ha, ha... look how far we are. (Perfect!)" "I haven't worked on it at all, but everything I've heard is phenomenal and it has nothing to do with any of the other records that were released before," newly-elected

G.O.O.D. Music President Pusha T

recently gushed to

Rolling Stone

concerning

Kanye

's tentatively-titled

SWISH

, which is rumored to be nearly 80% completed. "That's all I can really say about it. He's super meticulous about the messaging about his album but you guys are in for a treat."

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