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
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,"
"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
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
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
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."