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Vultures 2
Vultures 2
Studio album by ¥$
Released	August 3, 2024
Recorded	2015–2016; 2019; 2023–2024;
Genre	Hip hop; trap; R&B;
Length	48:44
Label	YZY
Producer	Ye; Ty Dolla Sign; 30 Roc; 88-Keys; Adam Vadel; Apollo Parker; ATL Jacob; Audiovista; AyoAA; Azul; BoogzDaBeast; Dez Wright; Digital Nas; E.Vax; Flex on the Beat; FnZ; Foreverrolling; Fred Again; Fya Man; Havoc; James Blake; John Cunningham; JPEGMafia; the Legendary Traxster; Lester Nowhere; London on da Track; Mattazik Muzik; Nathan Butts; Nico Baran; Ojivolta; Pi'erre Bourne; Ryderoncrack; Sean Momberger; Scott Bridgeway; SHDØW; TheLabCook; Timbaland; Veyis; Wheezy;
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Vultures 2 is the second studio album by the American hip hop supergroup ¥$, composed of the rapper Kanye West and the singer Ty Dolla Sign. It was surprise released independently by the former's YZY brand on August 3, 2024. The album features guest appearances from the Inter Milano ultras, Playboi Carti, Don Toliver, Kodak Black, Future, Lil Wayne, West's daughters North and Chicago, Young Thug, Lil Durk, Lil Baby, 070 Shake, Desiigner, Cyhi, and Ty's brother, Big TC. The digital deluxe editions feature guest appearances from Peso Pluma, Kid Cudi and Travis Scott. Production on the album was primarily handled by West and Ty themselves, alongside the Legendary Traxster, Digital Nas, Wheezy, London on da Track, AyoAA, BoogzDaBeast, FnZ, among others.

West and Ty began composing the album with collaborators after the release of its predecessor, but the album was delayed several times. West initially attempted to distribute Vultures 2 on his Yeezy website and previews of the album began appearing on social media by mid-March 2024. The cover art was released in June and Ty confirmed a listening event in South Korea for August 23, 2024, which bookended a short-lived retirement announcement by West. In July, West confirmed the album would be released on August 2 but it did not meet its scheduled release date: it was surprise-released a day later. Post-release listening events in Salt Lake City on August 9 and Taiwan on August 25 were later announced.

Vultures 2 continues to feature most of the themes present on its predecessor, exploring money, relationships, sex, and fame, although some songs discuss family and marriage. It was supported by the single "Slide", which was released a few hours before the album. The album cover sees Ty wearing a black mask and holding a picture of Big TC, who is serving a life sentence for a murder he claims he did not commit.

Vultures 2 received generally negative reviews from critics upon release, with criticism for it sounding unfinished and West allegedly using artificial intelligence in place of recording some of his verses.^[1] West and Ty rolled out out several updates to multiple songs in the following days. A sequel album, Vultures 3, is set for a release in late 2024 and the pair are scheduled to embark on a world tour in support of the album and its predecessor from 2024 to 2025.

Background and recording

On January 23, 2024, West revealed that a Vultures series would be released as a trilogy, with the first being released in February, the second on March 8, and the final on April 5.^[2] Vultures 1, the first part of the album, released on February 10, had a slight delay and went on to reach number one on the Billboard 200 as well as in numerous other countries.^[3] On February 25, Timbaland, who also worked on Vultures 1, announced that the second installment was "on the way".^[4] On March 3, French Montana announced his involvement and shared a clip of him and the duo in the recording studio.^[5] After the album had not come out on its scheduled release date of March 8, West announced that Vultures 2 was still in the works as he and Ty Dolla Sign were still "in the lab".^[6]^[7] West and Ty Dolla Sign held a private listening party on the scheduled date with a DJ setting, where the rapper was joined by his partner Bianca Censori.^[8]

On March 9, West announced the album and revealed its original artwork through his Twitter account.^[9] On March 10, in a conversation with a Kanye West fan page, West mentioned that he would be selling Vultures 2 on the Yeezy website for $20 instead of releasing it on streaming platforms like Vultures 1.^[10] He stated this decision was made so "We won't have the streaming companies in control of the artist anymore".^[11] On March 14, 1-minute previews of the Vultures 2 tracks were released on TikTok and Instagram under West's account.^[12] West and Ty Dolla Sign later announced a new release date of May 3, during their interview with Justin LaBoy on his The Download podcast. Rolling Stone also confirmed the track, titled "Let Me Chill Out", featuring the late rapper Takeoff.^[13] Despite the announcement, the album did not release on May 3.^[14]

Ty Dolla Sign appeared on the cover of the Billboard June 22, 2024, issue.^[15] Ty Dolla Sign played the interviewee a couple of the album's tracks, hinting at the release of the album in the upcoming days: "We got all the songs. Basically, it's just like, 'How can we get it there? How can we go bigger than the first album?'".^[15] On July 6, Ty Dolla Sign posted an official announcement of a listening event scheduled for August 23 in South Korea on Instagram.^[16] In the same week, West claimed he retired from professional music via fellow collaborator Rich the Kid's Instagram story. This retirement lasted roughly 30 minutes before a track with rapper Consequence titled "No Apologies" was announced to release on July 12.^[17] On July 30, West announced through his website that all orders placed on yeezy.com had been fulfilled and shipped out, and that the album would release on August 2, 2024. However, hours later, the release date was removed from his website; the album released on August 3, 2024.^[18]^[19]

Release and promotion

Vultures 2 was released to streaming services independently through West's YZY brand on August 3, 2024. The album was released on an unlisted YouTube livestream on West's YouTube channel, and on Tidal.^[20] The album was later released on Spotify and Apple Music.^[21]

Cover art

The cover features a masked Ty Dolla Sign dressed in all black holding an image of his brother, Jabreal "Big TC" Muhammad, who is currently serving a life sentence for a murder the brothers claim he did not commit.^[22]

Singles

On August 2, the lead single for Vultures 2, titled "Slide" released on West's Yeezy website alongside streaming services with an updated cover art for the album.^[23]^[24]^[25] Days later on August 13, its music video was released on YouTube. The music video for "Fried" was released on August 7.^[26]

Deluxe editions

On August 7, 2024, the first of several digital deluxe editions featuring a bonus track was released, which included "Take Off Your Dress".^[27] The day after, four addiitonal deluxe editions featuring the tracks "Believer", "Gun to My Head" featuring Kid Cudi, "Drunk" featuring Kodak Black and Bad Bunny, and "Can U Be" featuring Travis Scott, were released.^[28]^[29]

Post-release updates

Following its initial release, Vultures 2 saw several updates over the following days: West previously updated Yeezus (2013),^[30] The Life of Pablo (2016), Donda (2021),^[31]^[32] and Donda 2^[a] after their initial releases. "Field Trip" and "Fried" received changes to their effects unit, adlibs, and equalization. "Fried" was also shortened. "Isabella" was shortened by one second, "Maybe" was retitled to "Forever" and shortened by 50 seconds, with changes to its outro and vocal mixing, and "Sky City" received added reverb on the verses, and changes to the mixing, effects, and drums, while baseline and distortion were added.^[35] "River" also received several changes, including restoring mix and production from leaked versions of the song, while "530" received additional vocals while "Dead" received an updated mix. "My Soul" received major structural changes to the placement of vocals and its drums.^[36] "Lifestyle" was shortened by over two minutes with its sample and mixing receiving audio changes and a new outro featuring The-Dream was added to "Sky City".^[37] West announced that "updated songs will be published in real time", with no specified conclusion to potential revisions to the songs.^[38]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	42/100^[39]
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Guardian	^[40]
HipHopDX	^[41]
Pitchfork	4.6/10^[42]
Rolling Stone	^[43]
Slant Magazine	^[44]

Vultures 2 received mixed to negative reviews from critics. According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album currently has an average score of 42, based on five reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[39]

Billboard's Michael Saponara wrote: "While there's plenty of potential for greatness scattered throughout the project filled with West's avant-garde production, at times V2 is derailed by sound quality issues, unfinished thoughts or portions when Ye's rapping dips".^[45] Gabriel Bras Nevares of HotNewHipHop said that "this album's greatest flaw is its hollow execution".^[46]

Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian said that Vultures 2 is "bloated and occasionally focused, tired and occasionally futurist, morally redundant with enough humanity to supply a fraction of redemption".^[47] Paul Attard of Slant Magazine said that "one expects a Kanye West album to be incomplete in some way upon release, but Vultures 2, his second collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, is in shambles".^[48]

Commercial performance

Vultures 2 debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 after a six-day tracking period, scoring West's second-lowest first week sales with 107,000 album-equivalent units.^[49] The units consisted of 46,000 streaming-equivalent units, 60,500 pure album sales, and 500 track-equivalent units.^[50] The album also accumulated a total of 50.44 million on-demand streams of the album's songs.^[50]

Track listing

*Vultures 2* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Slide"	Ye Tyrone Griffin, Jr. Frederick Gibson Wesley Glass Ryder Bucaro London Holmes Aswad Asif Arturo Fratini	Ye Ty Dolla Sign Fred Again Wheezy Apollo Parker Ryderoncrack London on da Track AyoAA Lester Nowhere	3:18
2.	"Time Moving Slow" (with the Inter Milano Ultras)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Orlando Wilder Asif Azul Wynter Nathan Butts Konrad Żyrek Samuel Lindley	Ye Ty Dolla Sign Fya Man AyoAA Azul Butts SHDØW the Legendary Traxster	2:39
3.	"Field Trip" (with Playboi Carti and Don Toliver featuring Kodak Black)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Jordan Carter Caleb Toliver Bill Kapri Glass Lindley Dylan Cleary-Krell	Ye Ty Dolla Sign Wheezy the Legendary Traxster Dez Wright	2:47
4.	"Fried"	Ye Griffin, Jr. Grant Dickinson Nasir Pemberton Mark Williams Raul Cubina	Ye Ty Dolla Sign TheLabCook Digital Nas Ojivolta	2:33
5.	"Isabella"			0:08
6.	"Promotion" (with Future)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Nayvadius Cash Asif Glass Holmes Lindley	Ye Ty Dolla Sign AyoAA Wheezy London on da Track the Legendary Traxster	2:38
7.	"Husband"	Ye	Ye	2:17
8.	"Lifestyle" (with Lil Wayne)	Ye Griffin Jr. Dwayne Carter Jr. Nico Baran Michael Mulé Isaac De Boni	Ye Nico Baran FnZ	3:23
9.	"Maybe"	Ye Griffin, Jr. James Blake Litherland	Ye James Blake	1:27
10.	"Bomb" (performed by Ye, North West, and Chicago West)	Ye North West Chicago West Lindley	Ye the Legendary Traxster	2:31
11.	"River" (with Young Thug)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Jeffery Williams Jordan Jenks Asif Pemberton Holmes Lindley	Ye Pi'erre Bourne AyoAA Digital Nas London on da Track the Legendary Traxster	4:07
12.	"530"	Ye John Cunnigham Mulé De Boni Jahmal Gwin Evan Mast Maxie Ryles III Tiwan Raybon	Ye Cunnigham FnZ BoogzDaBeast E.Vax	4:49
13.	"Dead" (with Future and Lil Durk)	Ye Griffin Jr. Cash Durk Banks Jacob Canday Glass Holmes	Ye ATL Jacob Wheezy London On The Track	4:23
14.	"Forever Rolling" (with Lil Baby)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Dominique Jones Jeffrey Jones Jr. Aaron Butler Henning Grüschow Matthew Robinson	Ye Foreverroling Flex On Da Beat Audiovista Mattazik Muzik	3:18
15.	"Sky City" (with 070 Shake and Desiigner featuring CyHi)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Danielle Balbuena Sidney Selby III Cydel Young Gwin Timothy Mosley	Ye BoogzDaBeast Timbaland	4:22
16.	"My Soul" (with Big TC)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Jabreal Muhammad Gwin Mulé De Boni Charles Njapa Samuel Gloade Aaron Sunday Israel Boyd Mark Mbogo Anthony Clemons, Jr.	Ye BoogzDaBeast FnZ 88-Keys 30 Roc	3:57
Total length:				48:44

*Vultures 2* digital deluxe track listing 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Take Off Your Dress"	Ye Griffin, Jr.	Ye SHDØW Scott Bridgeway	3:26
Total length:				53:52

*Vultures 2* digital deluxe track listing 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Believer"	Ye Griffin, Jr. Barrington Hendricks Adam Vadel Gwin Charleston White Cam Newton	Ye JPEGMAFIA Vadel BoogzDaBeast	3:13
Total length:				53:39

*Vultures 2* digital deluxe track listing 3
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Drunk" (with Peso Pluma and Kodak Black)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Hassan Laija Kapri Żyrek Mosley Benito Martínez	Ye SHDØW Veyis Timbaland	3:09
Total length:				53:35

*Vultures 2* digital deluxe track listing 4
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Gun to My Head" (with Kid Cudi)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Scott Mescudi Glass Holmes Supreme Williams	Ye Wheezy Sean Momberger London on da Track	2:16
Total length:				52:42

*Vultures 2* digital deluxe track listing 5
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Can U Be" (with Travis Scott)	Ye Griffin, Jr. Jacques Webster II Kejuan Muchita	Ye Havoc	3:26
Total length:				53:52

Track notes

"Fried" features additional vocals from the Curva Nord Milano ultras.
"Bomb" does not feature any vocals from Ty Dolla Sign.
"River" features additional vocals from the Curva Nord Milano ultras and Charlie Wilson.
"Forever" was previously titled "Maybe" before the album was updated and re-released.
“Sky City“ features additional vocals from The-Dream and Ant Clemons.
"My Soul" features additional vocals from Todd Rundgren and the Sunday Service Choir.
“Drunk“ features additional vocals from Bad Bunny.

Sample credits

"Field Trip" contains samples of "Machine Gun", as performed by Portishead.
"530" contains samples of "Break the Fall (Acoustic)", as performed by Swsh.
"River" contains samples of "River", as performed by Leon Bridges.
"Forever" contains samples of "Maybe", as performed by Kettenkarussell.
"Lifestyle" contains samples of "Love Is Gone", as performed by Nico Baran, and “The New Style”, as performed by the Beastie Boys.
"Sky City" contains an interpolation of "O-o-h Child", as performed by the Five Stairsteps.
"Take Off Your Dress" contains samples of "Please Make It Good Again", as performed by Talmadge Armstrong.
"Gun to My Head" contains samples of "Blindside", as performed by Alice Merton.
"Can U Be" contains samples of "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", as performed by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye, "Haunted", as performed by Rob (FRA), "Glide", as performed by Pleasure, "National Anthem", as performed by Keith Hudson, and dialogue from Silver Linings Playbook (2012), as performed by John Ortiz and Bradley Cooper.

Charts

Chart performance for *Vultures 2*
Chart (2024)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[51]	4
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)^[52]	1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[53]	7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[54]	17
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[55]	1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)^[56]	8
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[57]	4
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[58]	6
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[59]	18
French Albums (SNEP)^[60]	16
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[61]	8
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)^[62]	11
Icelandic Albums (Plötutíðindi)^[63]	3
Irish Albums (OCC)^[64]	6
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[65]	12
Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon)^[66]	31
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)^[67]	5
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[68]	3
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[69]	2
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[70]	4
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)^[71]	16
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[72]	9
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[73]	2
UK Albums (OCC)^[74]	7
UK Independent Albums (OCC)^[75]	29
UK R&B Albums (OCC)^[76]	1
US Billboard 200^[77]	2
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[78]	1

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v t e Kanye West
Albums discography Singles discography Production discography Videography Songs Awards and nominations Live performances Views
Studio albums	The College Dropout Late Registration Graduation 808s & Heartbreak My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Yeezus The Life of Pablo Ye Jesus Is King Donda Donda 2
Collaborative albums	Watch the Throne (with Jay-Z) Kids See Ghosts (with Kid Cudi as Kids See Ghosts) Jesus Is Born (as the Sunday Service Choir) Vultures 1 (with Ty Dolla Sign as ¥$) Vultures 2 (with Ty Dolla Sign as ¥$)
Live albums	Late Orchestration VH1 Storytellers
Compilations	Cruel Summer (with GOOD Music)
Mixtapes	Can't Tell Me Nothing
DVDs	The College Dropout Video Anthology Late Orchestration
Films	We Were Once a Fairytale Runaway Cruel Summer Jesus Is King Jeen-Yuhs
Tours	Touch the Sky Tour Glow in the Dark Tour Fame Kills: Starring Kanye West and Lady Gaga (cancelled) Watch the Throne Tour The Yeezus Tour Saint Pablo Tour
Books	Glow in the Dark
Fashion	Nike Air Yeezy Adidas Yeezy Yeezy Gap Yeezy (brand)
Family	Donda West (mother) Kim Kardashian (ex-wife) Bianca Censori (wife) Devo Harris (cousin) Tony Williams (cousin) North West (daughter) The Kardashians (children & ex-in-laws)
Related articles	Dropout Bear GOOD Music GOOD Fridays Child Rebel Soldier Donda (company) Donda Academy Presidential campaigns Stem Player Drake–Kanye West feud
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