Kanye West Puts Out New Single, 'Real Friends'

By Mae Rice in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 8, 2016 7:43PM

Kanye West released a new single on SoundCloud Friday, "Real Friends," which ends in a snippet of "No More Parties In LA," a collaboration between Chicago-born West and rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Though West took "Real Friends" off SoundCloud almost immediately, due to what he called "a slight distortion in the main loop," you can listen to it on MissInfo.

Pitchfork reports:

According to since-deleted Tweets from Kanye, "No More Parties in LA" was produced by Madlib, with the intro produced by Kanye. "Real Friends" was produced by Kanye, with "sample by Frank Dukes and Boi-1da" and drum programming by Havoc. "No More Parties in LA" appears to feature the same sample from Ghostface Killah's "Mighty Healthy" that Kanye used on "New God Flow" with Pusha T.

Kim Kardashian, West's wife, teased the song in a tweet this morning:

🎼🎼🎼 Friiiiiiday!!!! New music!!!! #EveryFriday #Swish #RealFriends 🎼🎼🎼 🔥🔥🔥

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 8, 2016

Fans hypothesize that her tweet means the return of 2010's G.O.O.D. Fridays—a series of new West singles, released every Friday in the lead-up to his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

This particular release follows "Facts," which West released on New Year's Eve. (As Brasstax DJ Quinten Rosborough noted in Chicagoist, "Facts" was pretty bad.)