James Blake requests for his name to be removed from Kanye’s ‘Bully’ credits

James Blake has requested for his name to be removed from the production credits of Kanye West’s new album ‘Bully’, which landed on Friday, March 27.

Blake’s credits appeared alongside Don Toliver and Quentin Miller on the final track on the album, ‘This One Here’, as a co-writer. He now claims that the “spirit” of his production work is missing from the track.

Speaking to fans via his own music sharing platform Vault, Blake said: “The way I pitched his vocals and constructed the track from his freestyle is partially there, majorly peppered with other newer vocal takes etc.”

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“My original version is a completely different production in spirit,” he wrote, saying that the work he’d put into the original recording is “mostly absent” in the newly released track.

“Happy for the fans but I’ve asked to be taken off the producer credits for now as I don’t want to take credit for other people’s work and this version isn’t what I created with Ye,” he said.

Blake assured that the decision is not a “personal” one, but added: “I just hit a point where I don’t want to be credited on music where I can’t affect the end result.”

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Ye’s new record landed on Friday after being teased for several years, though its release hit several bumps along the way. It marks his first full-length album in some two years.

West recently claimed that the long-awaited album does not use AI in a post on X, despite telling Justin LaBoy in a 2025 interview that he was using AI tools during the record’s production in “the same way I incorporated autotune”.

Gemma Ross is Mixmag's Associate Digital Editor, follow her on X