James Blake and Kanye West Stephen J. Cohen\/Getty Images; Arnold Jerocki\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n James Blake<\/a>\u00a0has asked for his production credit to be removed from\u00a0Kanye West<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0new album,\u00a0Bully<\/em><\/a>, but not for the reasons you\u2019d expect when someone asks to be uncoupled from anything Ye-related these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n Blake is credited on\u00a0Bully<\/em>\u2019s final track, \u201cThis One Here,\u201d and it\u2019s a song he definitely worked on; Blake confirmed as much when Ye premiered an earlier version of the song\u00a0at a nightclub event in 2022<\/a>. But in a message shared on the social media platform\u00a0Vault<\/a>, Blake said the \u201cspirit\u201d of his contribution was no longer present in the final cut.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way I pitched his vocals and constructed the track from his freestyle is partially there, majorly peppered with other newer vocal takes etc,\u201d Blake wrote. \u201cBut the spirit of my actual production is mostly absent other than that. My original version is a completely different production in spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n Blake added: \u201cHappy for the fans but I\u2019ve asked to be taken off the producer credits for now as I don\u2019t want to take credit for other people\u2019s work and this version isn\u2019t what I created with Ye.\u201d<\/p>\n The musician further stressed that this was a creative choice, rather than anything related to the\u00a0countless controversies<\/a>\u00a0Ye has<\/a>\u00a0embroiled<\/a>\u00a0himself in<\/a>\u00a0these past few years (and is\u00a0ostensibly trying to move past<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s not personal,\u201d Blake said. \u201cI just hit a point where [I] don\u2019t want to be credited on music where I can\u2019t affect the end result.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n A rep for Ye did not immediately return\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Talk of various\u00a0collaborations between Blake and West<\/a>\u00a0has abounded for years, but little has actually come of it. In the mid-2010s, the\u00a0two heaped mutual praise<\/a>\u00a0on each other, and reports emerged that they\u2019d spent time in the studio together, but nothing was ever released. At one point, West was expected to appear on Blake\u2019s 2016 album,\u00a0The Color in Anything<\/em>, but a verse on the track \u201cTimeless\u201d never came to fruition. Finally, in 2024, Blake appeared on West and Ty Dolla $ign\u2019s\u00a0Vultures 1<\/em>\u00a0project, contributing production the song, \u201cTalking \/ Once Again.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Ye, he\u00a0finally released\u00a0<\/a>Bully<\/em>\u00a0last Friday, March 28, marking his first proper solo album since 2022\u2019s\u00a0Donda 2<\/em>.\u00a0And Blake just released a new solo album of his own,\u00a0Trying Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"music\"](\"https:\/\/rollingstoneindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image_1774935119757-960x640.jpg\" "\\"music\\"")
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