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Ye Shares Footage of Him Teaching North How to Rap

The 11-year-old teased her debut studio album, tentatively called 'Elementary School Dropout.'

Kanye West wearing sunglasses and a brown jacket, smiling with North who's holding a microphone.
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North West is already a star.

The 11-year-old made her rapping debut on Kanye West’s 2024 album, Vultures 1. Now, his firstborn is honing her own skills, purportedly for the arrival of her first album, tentatively titled Elementary School Dropout.

On Instagram, Ye posted a clip of him teaching her how to rap. “TRAINING 3,” he wrote, alongside the black-and-white clip.

In the video, the father and daughter duo rapped together, “Calling on God and get dangerous.”

Ye then showed her how to use vocal inflections as a way to place different emphasis on the word "God."

Working with North has been inspiring for Ye. Earlier this week, the father of four captioned a photo of her, “This little girl made me love music again. She asked me to make beats for her I got back on the ASR Chopped up beats for her album and chopped every beats with my bare hand for BULLY.”

North revealed last year at a Vultures 2 listening party that she was gearing up for the release of her debut studio album, a nod to Ye’s own debut, 2004’s The College Dropout.

Both Vultures installations boast features from North on “Talking” and “Bomb,” the latter of which also includes a verse from her sister, 7-year-old Chicago.

Ye has been teasing his album Bully, which will be his first solo album since 2021’s Donda. Last year saw the arrival of the first two Vultures albums from him and Ty Dolla Sign.

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