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Yeezy season bears upon us like a nuclear warhead. With the earth waiting for the impending release of Mr. West's ninth solo studio album, Jesus is King—the album isn't done yet, co-ordinate to sources—information technology's worth it to expect back at the rough road that led us here.

Like Kanye's previous two albums—The Life of Pablo and y e—the rollout for Jesus is King has been plagued by drama, missed deadlines, name changes, and manic tweets. Kanye teased whole projects—like how So Help Me God preceded The Life of Pablo and Turbo Grafx 16 preceded ye—before he settled on their last iterations.

Before his focus was drawn and quartered by his creative empire, young Kanye would prophesize and execute albums flawlessly. He announced Late Registration and Graduation in press interviews for The College Dropout. But he's always used scrapped projects as rocket fuel. After the original version of The College Dropout leaked, he reupholstered the whole album, making small but impactful changes. He scrapped Good Ass Job, the sequel to Graduation, in favor of the more than ballsy My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In fact, there are so many unfinished Kanye projects—and then many snippets we've heard—ane could rank an unabridged list of them.

So that's exactly what we did.

Reviewing unreleased albums will e'er exist a tricky endeavor—like trying to weigh collywobbles, their silhouettes incommunicable to trace with exactitude. Only the artist and his collaborators—like engineer Andrew Dawson, who we interviewed last month—know what's real or not. Merely at that place are practiced folks on the internet who've put together approximations of the albums, and yous tin find certain projects—including So Help Me God, Yandhi, and the original version of The College Dropout—all online.

Our criteria for inclusion on the list were the projects had to be named and started. We based our rankings on the quality of the demos we heard and the anticipated issue. Everything is lost to time eventually, only some things erode faster than others. Each year, download links disappear, and copyright claims coffin what remains. And so, find and mind to these fragments while you all the same can.

10. Wolves

Wolves is the name for the Drake-Kanye articulation album teased from 2015 to 2016. Nosotros got a taste of their synergy—2016's "Popular Style" and 2017'south "Glow," both of which ended upwards on Drake projects.

Unfortunately, Kanye and Drake aren't a great combination. Kanye is a fantastic producer for Drake—2011's "Find Your Love" worked perfectly—and I'm yet salty we never got to hear the No. 1 single that a Drake "Lift Yourself" would take been. Just a collaborative anthology with both artists jockeying for mic time feels like it would exist a strained, cringey, and even include some passive-aggressive barbs at each other.

Kanye is best when the "hot temper" pairs with "a cold killer," as Pusha-T once rapped. It's why Kanye and JAY-Z are a great duo. As Pusha-T said on "Infrared": "When the CEO's blinded by the glow, it'south different…"

9. Yeezus two

Yeezus ii isn't Yandhi. Yeezus 2 is a hypothetical anthology composed of the six to x songs lopped off Yeezus past Rick Rubin, and then spoken back into a possibility by Rubin's offhand annotate in a Complex interview.

At this signal, those songs are probably never coming out, and I assume the best ones concluded up on Yeezus. Kanye songs are like Jay Electronica verses: I've never heard a wack one, just sometimes you have to motility on.

8. Roughshod Winter

For the longest time, I thought the name of this album was Expert Winter—a far meliorate title, in my stance, to 2012'due south G.O.O.D Music compilation album Vicious Summer. But the second G.O.O.D Music compilation's name shall exist Barbarous Wintertime if it e'er comes out.

"Champions" was released as Cruel Winter's lead single in 2016, only we accept heard aught since. Cruel Wintertime doesn't feel necessary at this point. G.O.O.D Music's title-grade roster—which once included John Legend, Mos Def, and Kid Cudi—feels depleted. Valee is doing his thing, only signees like Teyana Taylor, Desiigner, and Sheck Wes accept all expressed dissatisfaction with their label, and I'm not interested in hearing more than Big Sean or Desiigner in 2019. No criminal offence.

seven. Turbo Grafx 16

Ah, the fabled Turbo Grafx 16 album. Announced in a at present-deleted tweet after the release of 2016's The Life of Pablo, this projecthas generated its ain mythology among Kanye stans—mostly because of its endearing title and the video game soundscapes it might accept mined.

Unfortunately, we heard nada more than sketches. The songs that leaked—collaborations with Young Thug and A$AP Rocky—were colorful and kinetic simply never progressed beyond their alpha build. At least we can enjoy the pixelated fan art.

6. Love Everyone

Nosotros now movement onto albums that have some semblance of abyss. At 1 point, Turbo Grafx 16 became Beloved Everyone—the album that Kanye infamously played at TMZ then scrapped after he said, "When you hear near slavery for 400 years... for 400 years? That sounds similar a choice."

Upward to that point, Kanye seemed to be on an ideological spree; he already voiced his support for Trump; conservative personality Candace Owens accompanied him to TMZ; screen-grabs of Kanye's open tabs included talks by controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson and right-leaning cartoonist Scott Adams.

Kanye outlined his broader political views at the White House last twelvemonth—his want to unify blue and scarlet America, to await toward the future, materially synthesized in the "Make America Bang-up" hat he placed upon Trump, and the Wyoming listening party for ye: an uncomfortable union of heartland cowboys and braided youth.

After the massive backlash that his TMZ comments received, Love Everyone seemed to cannibalize into ye, and its focus shifted toward mental wellness. That may accept been the right motility. It takes time—years—to articulate thoughts that don't slot easily into a narrative, and you lot tin can't take any chances in today's soundbite economy.

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Even when Kanye tried to explain them at the White House, unhemmed past rhyme or line, he was roundly mocked and condemned. Information technology's like people didn't even find that an outspoken black artist spoke freely for 20 minutes in the Oval Role, dominating and stunning the president, superimposing his own, more than inclusive message literally onto the president's head.

Anyway, we have heard trivial of this album, and the messaging would probable accept been well-intentioned but misunderstood.

5. Yandhi

Yandhi, the album teased after 2018'southward ye, seemed to have been another attempt at the unifying bulletin of Love Everyone. The name hinted as much, and the symbolism of purple—unifying blue and red—as the primary colour on Yandhi's cover wasn't lost on me. Fortunately (or unfortunately), much of the album has leaked and is easily findable online.

There are a few songs on "Yandhi" that have true greatness in them. "Law of Allure," built around a motorcar alarm sound, has "Pinocchio Story" overtones, with its chorus: "The police force of attraction / exist conscientious what y'all ask for / cause I got what I asked for / exactly what I asked for." The American Dream came truthful—it was a nightmare.

"We Got Love," a articulate holdover from Love Everything, is beautiful even in its hatchling grade. Teyana Taylor's starting time verse—"I gave birth on the bathroom floor / only me, Iman, and headphone cords"—should have been a star-making infinitesimal, just is now an unfortunate reminder of how G.O.O.D Music has bungled some of her best moments.

4. So Help Me God

So Help Me God was the anthology designed to follow up Yeezus. There are versions online that virtually sound complete, equally many of its finished records—"Piss on Your Grave," "Tell Your Friends," "FourFiveSeconds"—were given to other artists or live on in corners of the Cyberspace. This list includes the moving carol "Crawly" and one of the best songs of Kanye's unabridged catalog, "I Feel Similar That."

Kanye seemed to carelessness And then Help Me God after its lead single, "All 24-hour interval," failed to stick to the charts. (I still think the Travis Scott version was the best.) Then again, when you utilize a medieval Christian symbol for the pb single's artwork while simultaneously recording songs nearly fucking models who bleach their assholes, it's hard to go on all the disparate parts together.

5 years later, it seems similar Kanye is finally ready to deliver a focused, coherent, not-degenerate and God-fearing anthology in Jesus is King. Perchance he'south seen the "Dear Everyone" bulletin has been chiseled and honed over millennia by the best of our religions and using Christianity as a vehicle to communicate that is a wise move. Jesus was maxim "love everyone" ii,000 years ago, and information technology was as revolutionary then as information technology is today. And I'm not fifty-fifty Christian.

iii. The College Dropout (original version)

There are a few versions of the original The College Dropout, just the bulk of the album seems to have existed by 2003. Afterward the entire project leaked, Kanye made some changes—he took off collaborations with GLC, Upshot, Ol' Dirty Bounder, and the overall tenor became less commercial.

The only good track removed was the warm "My Way," which, like "Bloodshot Poetry," should receive more attending in Kanye's oeuvre. All the other cut songs, including early on versions of "Hey Mama" and "Gold Digger," eventually came out, so the original version of The College Dropout is entirely listenable. You just have to spend an afternoon doing some onetime-fashioned MP3 downloading and iTunes library arranging.

Even in its original form,The College Dropout is still fantastic. Any anthology with "Jesus Walks," "All Falls Down," and "Never Let Me Down" is an instant classic.

2. Good Donkey Job (both versions)

There are two Good Ass Chores. The first was the proper sequel to Graduation and a continuation of the Dropout Bear trilogy. It morphed into My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Kanye was at the meridian of his musical powers and then, and then that album would have been epic no matter what.

The 2d version of Good Ass Job is proposed past Risk as a collaborative album between the two. Some take written Chance off after The Big Day, only I still remember he has an of import, necessary message that aligns with Kanye's more ever.

I admit my ratings degrade at this point a bit—objectively, 100 years from now, even the original version of The College Dropout would likely trump a Chance-Kanye collaboration. Only Gamble and Kanye have made magic before—"Ultralight Beam" and "Waves" are unforgettable. Take a chance might give Kanye enough focus, and Kanye might return plenty edge, for the two to pull off something wonderful. Adept Ass Job is an album we have a high chance of seeing in the next few years. Pray for it.

i. Scout the Throne 2

I wasn't going to include this on the list, equally information technology seemed JAY-Z never fully endorsed the idea. But when I told my friend, NYC rapper Vaughn PM, nigh my list, without including Watch the Throne 2, he began to clown me mercilessly. "You know you fucked upward," he repeated with a sneer.

Begrudgingly, I agreed. If I'm going to include Yeezus 2—only hinted at by Rick Rubin—then I demand to include Watch the Throne ii,directly announced by Kanye in a tweet last twelvemonth.

Done right, a sequel tin be fifty-fifty more epic than the first. 8 years later, Kanye and Jay are notwithstanding triple-A artists. Like Voltron, the different sectors of hip-hop fandom—Kanye stans, the suburbs, the streets, the youth, the oldheads—would assemble to carry this album to the stratosphere.

Jay still got it, Kanye even so got it, and haters gonna hate, only this album would be another seismic event and probable the nigh significant hip-hop outcome of the year.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Westward released ye in 2017. The album was released in 2018.

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