Mike Dean discusses collaborating with Ye in a recent interview with Nile Rodgers for Deep Hidden Meaning Radio.
After Donda’s several delays, we are well aware that Kanye West can be fussy while preparing for an album. However, producer Mike Dean recently disclosed that the rapper/producer discarded an entire album’s worth of music while recording on Ye in an interview with Nile Rodgers on Deep Hidden Meaning Radio.
West’s longtime collaborator and Houston producer Nile Rodgers discussed a number of instances in which a musician unexpectedly changed the music he created during a talk for Deep Hidden Meaning Radio. “I get that from everybody, especially Beyonce actually. ‘What do y’all want?’ ‘Just Mike Dean it up,'” Dean said around the four-minute mark. “And they can take all that or 50 percent of it or 80 percent of it. I have real thick skin so it doesn’t bother me, whatever they like of what I did, they can use.”
Mike said that an album’s worth of content had been written in Wyoming by his longtime partner Kanye until a disgruntled Yeezy opted to scrap everything and start over only weeks before the album’s scheduled release.
“Till it’s over, anything can happen, especially Kanye.,” he added. “In Wyoming, for the Ye album, we had 10 songs, I guess. And we were trying to do a seven-song album. I came in one day and he’d erased the whole board and said, ‘We’re starting over.’ That’s what happened. And we did it in like two weeks. We made seven songs and it came out pretty good.”
Ye is renowned for working on tasks right up until the last minute and frequently running late that he sets for himself. The multi-hyphenate stated he had abandoned Ye following his controversial TMZ appearance during an interview on BigBoyTV in 2018. “I just completely did a completely new album,” West admitted. “With what the universe was giving me, I wanted something that matched that energy. I completely redid the album after TMZ. We just sat there and really honed in on the words.”
