Maybe “Real Friends” wasn’t technically a “leak” because it was West himself releasing and un-releasing the record the entire time, but he made it hard for me not to remember it as one of the greatest leaks ever.-SAM BALABANīobby Shmurda’s “ Bobby Bitch” in-studio teaser is perhaps the definitive example of when a snippet is better than the final version of the song. The “Real Friends” revisions were West’s first steps in making The Life Of Pablo the potentially forever-evolving project he imagined it to be, and it was exhilaratingly odd to witness the process in real-time, with millions of people tuned in. When it’s back up all rippers please rip the new one instead.” The internet couldn’t wait a single minute to hear the new track, and thus illegal streaming and link-hunting ensued, prompting West to then tweet, “It will be back up shortly. “There was a slight distortion in the main loop within Real Friends.” He ended up posting and deleting the track two more times before getting it right, causing an abundance of “Kanye doesn’t know how to use the internet” memes and Zippyshare links to simultaneously seize the timeline before noon. “Un momento,” West tweeted just minutes after deleting the newly-uploaded track off of his Soundcloud. ![]() The leak/“promotional release” of Kanye West’s “ Real Friends” on Soundcloud last year was a brilliant disaster. Today, I can’t choose between the Rih and PND versions, but am happy I’m on Earth while the two can co-exist. In the ensuing day or two, fans (including myself) played the life out of the available 10 second snippets, and perhaps by the grace of collective fan will-power, an MP3 of the full reference track, including an early version of Drake’s verse, began circulating on Twitter. ![]() A few hours after one of the Snapchat videos had been ripped and posted on Twitter by an OVO fan account, it was confirmed that the recording heard in the original Snapstory was indeed sung by PartyNextDoor, and served as a reference track for the ANTI hit. I nearly fainted when, in February of 2016, Keke Palmer posted a series of Snapchats soundtracked by what sounded like PartyNextDoor singing Rihanna’s “Work.” At this point, the general public was aware that the artist known as Jahron Brathwaite had written the song, but existence of a version sung by PartyNextDoor himself was unknown - that is, until, Palmer posted her Snaps.
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