Kanye West has unveiled three versions of a black-and-white film featuring his 9-year-old son, Saint, to promote his upcoming album, Bully.
The films, titled SCREENING VERSION, POST HYPE VERSION, and POST POST HYPE VERSION, show Saint fighting wrestlers with a mallet while Ye’s new music plays in the background.
Ye shared the clips on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, along with a black-and-white photo of Saint smiling with grills.
“I put my son on Bully album cover to build our relationship,” he shared with his millions of fans.
The films are about 45 minutes long and have no dialogue, with music that includes samples from Cortex’s “Huit Octobre 1971” and The Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
Ye revealed earlier this year that Bully was inspired by an incident where Saint kicked another child.
He explained while on “The Download” podcast with Justin Laboy at the time, “My son was playing with some kid and then he kicked him.”
Ye said it made him realize his son was acting like a bully, which led to the album’s theme. He also mentioned that Saint’s behavior reminded him of his own youth and that his son had picked up traits from him.
The release of Bully comes shortly after Ye collaborated with his daughter North on a song that also featured Sean “Diddy” Combs. This caused tension with Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, who expressed concerns about North’s involvement.
“I sent paperwork over so she wouldn’t be in the Diddy song to protect her,” Kardashian said, referencing the song “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine.”
West then responded via text, “Amend it or I’m going to war. And neither of us will recover from the public fallout. You’re going to have to kill me.
Kanye shares North, 11, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5, with ex-wife Kim Kardashian