James Blake Asks for His Production Credit on Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ to Be Removed

By Jem Aswad

Jem Aswad

Executive Editor, Music

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James Blake has asked for his name to be removed from the production credits of Kanye West’s track “This One Here,” featured on the artist now known as Ye’s new-ish album “Bully.”

Blake says his “original version” of the track, which was recorded several years ago, “is completely different in spirit.”

In a post on Vault, the direct-to-fan streaming platform that Blake joined after parting ways with his longtime label Universal, he wrote, “The way I pitched his vocals and constructed the track from his freestyle is partiaully there, majorly peppered with other newer vocal takes etc…. 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.

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