If you were sitting on your hands waiting for the physical release of Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, sit no longer. Taking to Twitter, Yeezy made a very important announcement on Monday (Mar. 7): he will not be releasing his albums in CD-form ever again. Beginning his bomb drop with a nice greeting, “hi everybody!,” West let the masses down easy by stating that Yeezus was his last compact disc:
Uuuuum… hi everybody!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
I was thinking about not making CDs ever again… Only streaming
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
the Yeezus album packaging was an open casket to CDs r.i.p
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
uuuuuuum, so there it is… No more CDs from me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
Back in February, The New York Times reported that West was planning to drop a deluxe physical version of TLOP. An unnamed source reportedly tipped the newspaper off, but never offered a date for when the project would hit stores. Looks like a date wasn’t given because one doesn’t exist. West shared that he is already working on a follow-up to his seventh studio release, tentatively titled Turbo Grafx 16. If West’s word stands, this will also be a streaming-only release.
One fan so far has raised a very good point in reaction to the news:
.@kanyewest this is an art within itself that you shouldnt allow to die pic.twitter.com/ii4Iq4yHK2
— $HYEEZY (@NailahShy) March 7, 2016