During his Yeezy Season 2 launch at New York Fashion Week in September, Kanye West let a potential track off his upcoming album Swish fly through the speakers.
A collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign and rapper Post Malone, the song called “Fade” popped up in full during a DJ set from West’s creative director, Virgil Abloh, as spotted by Complex.
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“Very rare, very new,” he told the London crowd this past weekend before testing it on the sound system.
While a release date for ‘Ye’s LP is nowhere to be found, he mentioned in a recent interview that the project “gets better every week.”
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“I don’t wanna overly describe it or overly try to hype it up. I’ve been working slow,” West told L.A.’s Real 92.3 (Nov. 5). “[Swish]’s sounding good. It’s like a sonic painting, and it gets better and better every week.”
Sample “Fade” in full from Abloh’s set across the pond below.