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Co-writer on the New Kanye West album, Malik Yusef, has said the the sound and recording process is 'smoother than Yeezus'.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, writer/poet/producer, Yusef, who also worked on Yeezy's extremely divisive and highly praised album, hinted that the sound was much less abrasive.
He said that the rapper had finished "20 songs" for the new record and that the sound fell somewhere between the Chiacgo sound and the hip hop sound.
"Yeezus was a hard album to work on because it was a departure from where I wanted to be with our music," Yusef told Rolling Stone. "Kanye was very declarative in his statement of 'I don't want this to be a regular Kanye album. I don't want this to be what people are familiar with."
He continued: "This album is different. It's like a pair of Timberlands; like how Timberlands are not quite leather and not quite suede,.
"It's not the smooth, slick Chicago music sound we have right now and it's not the ruggedness of just 'hip-hop hip-hop hip-hop.' We're still working like a motherfucker. We've been all AROUND THE WORLD [recording]."
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