Kanye West has seemingly patched things up with longtime collaborator Mike Dean and joined forces once again for his forthcoming album, Bully.
In a series of two posts to Instagram this week, Ye shared two different images from his legendary Life Of Pablo live premiere in 2016 – one featuring himself and Mike, and the other of himself and singer/songwriter (and cousin) Tony Williams.
Both were simply captioned “BULLY,” with the peeping eye emojis.
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In 2022, Mike Dean distanced himself from Kanye West amid the latter’s numerous antisemitic rants.
In October of that year, No Jumper podcast host Adam22 shared his thoughts on Ye’s relationship with conservative pundit Candace Owens, and the esteemed producer was quick to agree with his take.
“Kanye spent 20 years building one of the biggest empires in music and fashion and threw it all away bc he wanted to repeat Candace Owens talking points on TV,” Adam wrote.
“Amen,” Mike replied.
Then in December, Mike was one of many who criticized Ye following his controversial appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, where he praised Hitler and Nazis.
Resharing a message from Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello on his Instagram page, Mike made Kanye’s “Power” the soundtrack to his post in an apparent effort to make his intended audience clear.
“When media attention becomes more important than life itself you’re on a slippery slope, saying provocative things to trigger social media for clicks and action is pathetic, sitting there triggering the minds of less-educated adults to spread your thoughts like a virus shows pure evil,” the message read.
“There are people out there on this earth doing incredible things for us humans that deserve all the attention we give idiots, let’s lift good people doing good things. People that actually contribute to make this a better place.”
It continued: “We live now, not yesterday, not tomorrow, we live right now but whatever you do today will effect your future and in a couple of years this day is called the past, so use every day as the day that will define your legacy and contribution as a human being, we’re all in this together. Life is short.”
Busta Rhymes and T.I. jumped into Dean’s comments section to give their stamp of approval, while fans reacted to the producer’s continued criticism of West.
“Damn no more Kanye & Mike Dean masterpieces in the future,” one fan wrote, to which Dean replied with a pair of crying emojis.
Bully will serve as Ye’s first solo album since 2021’s Donda and the follow-up to his two Vultures LPs with Ty Dolla $ign which both arrived last year.
