No sooner did The Life of Pablo make its streaming rounds on TIDAL did Kanye West anno2014 Forest Hills Driveunce that he would be releasing another album in 2016, titled Turbo Grafx 16. The title serves as both a play on what year it is and a childhood reference, much like J. Cole‘s album, and is tentatively slated to be released this summer. Yeezy revealed the title of his 8th solo LP on Twitter, explaining that he’d like to revisit the feeling he felt when he was a child, and his favorite console was the TurboGrafx-16.
Though he’s still updating his “living” 7th album, The Life of Pablo, a pretty high quality version of new ‘Ye music surfaced online earlier today in the form of “Saint Pablo,” a Sampha-featured song that Yeezy premiered at Yo Gotti‘s Los Angeles The Art of Hustle release party last month. The song samples Jay Z‘s “Where I’m From,” and hasn’t officially been commented on by Kanye just yet, but you can check it out here, and get ready for the next few months to be pretty frenzied if West really plans on releasing a second album this year.
We’ve already seen him get in the studio with Tyler, The Creator, Lil Yachty, Big Sean, Vic Mensa and Migos to work on TB16, so who knows. This thing could really be happening.
Stream “Saint Pablo” here.