Singer-songwriter James Blake publicly requested to have his name excluded from the credits on Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ album
“The way I pitched his vocals and constructed the track from his freestyle is partially there, majorly peppered with other newervocal takes,” Blake, 37, wrote in a recent post on Vault. “The spirit of my actual production is mostly absent, other than that.
My original version is a completely different production in spirit.” Blake is currently credited as a producer on West’s song “This One Here,” from his “Bully” LP that dropped Friday, March 27. “Happy for the fans, but I’ve asked to be taken off the producer credits for now, as I don’t want to take credit for other people’s work,” Blake stated. “This version isn’t what I created with Ye. It’s not personal!” He concluded, “I just hit a point where I don’t want to be credited on music where I can’t affect the end result.” Blake and West, 48, had been friends and collaborators for many years, though their bond seemingly dissipated by 2023. “We haven’t seen each other for a little while. I think it’s probably a no-comment from me,” Blake told Variety in October 2023, seemingly reacting to West’s controversial antisemitic remarks. “I say that with sadness.” West was suspended from Instagram in 2022 after making a series of derogatory and false comments about Jews while simultaneously praising dictator Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He issued a public apology in January, two months before “Bully” was released. “In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life,” West wrote in an open letter published by the Wall Street Journal, blaming his behavior on his bipolar disorder. “One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments — many of which I still cannot recall — that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body-experience.” He continued, “I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.”“My words as a leader in my community have global impact and influence. In my mania, I lost complete sight of that,” he concluded. “As I find my new baseline and new center through an effective regime of medication, therapy, exercise and clean living, I have newfound, much-needed clarity.”
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