Kanye West - Turbo Grafx 16 (2016)

In 2016 Kanye West tweeted that his next album after 'The Life Of Pablo' would be called 'Turbo Grafx 16', as it was one of his favourite gaming systems when he was a kid, with 'Blazing Lazers' being a particular favourite. West was, of course, talking about the TurboGrafx 16, which was the first console released in the 16-bit era in 1989, and was joint-developed by Hudson Soft and NEC. The console was best known for the Bonk series, as well as having one of the best Castlevania games, 'Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood'. West's favourite game for the console, Blazing Lazers, was actually a pretty decent space shoot-'em-up that features some decent beats, and it was hoped that we would hear these with West rapping over them. The album was due to appear in the summer of 2016, and work was done on it in the early part of the year, with some recordings appearing on Japanese bootlegs with titles which appended the names of TG16 games to the titles, but these are generally just sub-par instrumentals. Most of the other leaked tracks are pretty standard West pieces, and rumour has it that these were scrapped when his next album was suddenly changed to 'Love Everyone', which was in turn scrapped completely and a full new album recorded in just a few months, to be released as 'Ye' in 2018. For this reconstruction I've ignored the Japanese bootlegs, as the general consensus is that the best track-listing is the one I've used here, so enjoy yet another unreleased album from this immensely prolific artist. 

Track listing

01 Can't Look in My Eyes/
02 Can U Be? (feat. Travis Scott)
03 All Eyes On Ye
04 Hold Tight
05 Euro2 (Switch Hands) (feat. A$AP Rocky)
06 Only Ye (Make You Love Me)
07 Face Down (feat. Quavo & Lil Yachty)
08 Jealous
09 Tongues (Interlude)
10 Rich Nigga Drunk
11 Bad Night (Capri Sun) (feat. Young Thug)
12 No Reason