James Blake has asked for his name to be removed from the production credits of the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s Bully track “This One Here.” Following the release of Ye’s twelfth solo album, which the rapper-producer dropped on Saturday (March 28), Blake clarified that he doesn’t consider himself a producer of the song in a post he made on his direct-to-fan streaming platform Vault.
According to Spotify, Quentin Miller and Don Toliver, in addition to Blake and Ye, are listed as composers on the song.
The English musician explained that while his original vocal pitching and track construction are on the final version of “This One Here,” the “spirit” of his “actual production is mostly absent.”
“My original version is a completely different production in spirit,” Blake continued. “Happy for the fans but I’ve been asked 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.”
“It’s not personal!” he assured. “I just hit a point where [I] don’t want to be credited on music where I can’t affect the end result.”
Also this month, Blake released his seventh solo album, Trying Times, where he listed his longtime girlfriend, actress Jameela Jamil, as an executive producer.
“For everyone here—without jameela this album would not be patch on what it is now, in its final form,” hewrote. “It’s impossible to overstate how much you’ve transformed these songs, and guided me to reach what I think is my potential.”
He continued, “That is what a producer and indeed what a exec producer does. Your intuition, your clarity and pattern recognition for music is the best of anyone bar none.”
Jamil called her work with Blake a “privilege” and wanted other men to notice that he was showering her with praise.
Also on Friday, Ye dropped off the music video for “Father” featuring Travis Scott. You can watch the video, which was directed by Bianca Censori, by heading this way.
