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Steve Bartels, CEO of Def Jam, has heard Kanye West's new album and claims it is "amazing".
He joins the ranks of third party endorsements for the record, which has been bigged up by Theophilus London and Malik Yuusef amongst others. At this point it's beginning to look a little bit like everyone has heard it but you.
"It sounds incredible," he told Billboard. "He's focused, energetic, happy and making unbelievably great music. Kanye always wants to make sure that when it actually arrives it's at the best possible place it could be, that the first song is as big as the last. He's the absolute bar of perfection in terms of that. I tell him all the time: Some of his previous albums are still testing out in the marketplace as high, if not higher, than when they first came out because the music is still fresh to people."
Listen to the leaked version of 'All Day' below
It looks like the Kanye camp may be bigging up the album by word of mouth, a bit of hype osmosis before the potential surprise drop happens... Kanye previously said he was aiming for a September to December release date, so it could arrive any time soon.
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