Kanye West to debut track from ‘Yeezus’ follow up “in the next couple of weeks”

Kanye West is hoping to release a new track “in the next couple of weeks”, with his next album due later this year.

Speaking to GQ, Kanye reveals he hopes to reveal a first single, ‘All Day’, by September, with the follow up to ‘Yeezus’ to follow within the next few months.

“I hope I can get one of these songs out in the next couple of weeks,” he revealed, “just to have something up and running. But I think most likely September. I go back and forth. Like, should it be September or should it be October? Should it be November? When Beyoncé was working on her last album, she took a while. I was thinking it could somehow come out in June, like Yeezus, and just kill it for the summer. But then I’m like, I have to work on Adidas and be with my child.”

Kanye also talked about how he puts together his albums, speaking about how they need to be “balanced”, with each track requiring others to complement it.

“For the new album,” he explains, “one new thing could change everything. I had an idea of the way I wanted to do the album. And then I got a new song that’s so good that the album has to be balanced against it. This song is a song that can be in the club like “Don’t Like” or “Niggas in Paris.” Whereas before I was working on the album and I had these beautiful songs, they were just more songs. They weren’t saying, “Okay, tuck your whole summer in.” They were just saying, “Hey, I’m a great musician, I make these beautiful songs, and they have all this meaning, and nobody can make anything that means this much.”

Read the full interview on GQ here.