it’s 28 March 2028, and Kanye West (Ye) has just released his 12th album, Bully, an expansion of his 2025 three-track EP of the same name. Featuring guest artists such as Travis Scott and CeeLo Green, Bully (2026) has 18 tracks with a total runtime of 42 minutes.

17 tracks off the album are visualised using cuts of a black-and-white short film. In these visuals, Kanye West’s son, Saint, is the main character in a wrestling ring, playfully fending off and outmanoeuvring professional wrestlers. Father, the third track on the album, featuring Travis Scott, takes a different visual direction from the rest, set in a disruptive church service with bizarre characters.

Now, the review! Honestly, I couldn’t pen it all down, so I thought, why not pull reactions from random listeners across the web to give you a clearer sense of Kanye West’s Bully music album.

Negative Reviews of Kanye West’s Bully (2026) Album
I like the samples. Vocals are predictably poor, and it is horribly mixed.

Half of the songs go nowhere; he repeats the same phrases and then just sort of ends the song. Verses are vague and half-hearted. Beats are decent with alright mixing, but nothing special for what should be a Kanye West album. Yeah, it’s better than Vultures [Vultures 1 & Vultures 2], but that’s a low bar to clear.

His rapping is a little flat at times, but the production is f*c#ing stellar. It feels like a movie. I think he’s a better singer than rapper on this album.

This is not good. If this weren’t Kanye West, the album [Bully] wouldn’t even make a blip on Soundcloud.

Bully album is nowhere near his best work, but it seems we need to just compare it to his last album, which is definitely a step up, but if we compare it to just other projects coming out, this is mid at best. If I compare it to Vultures, then yeah, I guess it’s good, but like throw on Graduation (2007), MBDTS (2010), or Late Registration (2005), it’s not even close.

Positive Reviews of Kanye West’s Bully (2026) Album
Ye’s most cohesive and focused album since Donda (2021), and considering its relatively short length, you could argue it’s his most focused since Ye (2018). Very sparse, lacking development in some areas, but I get that the minimal vibe is a feature rather than a bug.

Some of the intros give the hope for old Kanye West, then it just fades away. It’s not a terrible album; he must be doing better mentally.

Best Ye solo album since TLOP (2016). Donda has higher highs for sure, but bloated as hell.

It’s irritating that it’s as good as it is. I expected much much worse.

The album is already overhated. The songs are miles better than Vultures, even if they are shorter. Lyrics are better than Vultures and only a few skips.

We have been having AI songs, and now Ye drops Bully with a lot of new songs and almost no AI.

This is what we’ve been waiting to hear from Kanye West for years.

Ye hasn’t sounded this smooth in a hot minute.

What do you think? Some comments…
Listen here: “Bully” Album by Kanye West (Ye).