Ye’s BULLY crashed the scene like a fever dream on March 18, 2025, his eleventh solo swing unloaded as a visual album straight to X via YZY, raw and unpolished in that signature chaos. And “WHITE LINES”? It’s the fourth-track gut-punch, twisting Stevie Wonder’s talkbox croon on The Carpenters’ “(They Long to Be) Close to You” into a foggy confessional about cloning yourself to cope.
This one’s Ye at his most fractured: ethereal samples looping those angelic “Why do birds suddenly appear” hooks over sparse, echoing beats that feel like late-night whispers in an empty mansion. It’s experimental soul-rap, blending gospel haze with hip-hop minimalism—AI vocals ghosting the verses for now (he’s vowed to ditch ’em, hating the tech takeover), but the rawness lands anyway.
Thematically, it’s all tangled solitude: admitting you “don’t feel at home by myself,” spilling truths on everything from cloned feelings to that magnetic pull (“Close to you, close to you”) despite the mess. Fans clock the Simpsons Movie nod—that heartbreaking Marge-leaving-Homer scene scored to “Close to You,” mirroring Ye’s real-life custody wars with Kim K, her reported push for sole guardianship amid his X-fueled spirals. It’s personal as a therapy leak, music all Ye, turning pain into moondust poetry.
BULLY’s a 13-track revenge flick in audio form, homaging Larry Clark’s 2001 teen-murder tale as Ye’s middle finger to “bullies” like Adidas (post that messy split) and even a raw story from kicking his son Saint, calling himself out as the weak one. Stacked with cuts like “PREACHER MAN,” “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,” the title-track banger, and a rare feature from Tony Williams on “MISSION CONTROL,” it’s clocking 48 minutes of highs, lows, and loops—circles of love, damn regrets, losing your mind. Recorded in Saudi Arabia hideouts after Vultures 2’s 2024 fallout, it’s got co-productions from Consequence, CyHi, and a YZY crew, artwork by Daidō Moriyama snapping that stark, shadowed vibe. No tidy arc, just Ye bulldozing boundaries, proving he’s still the glitch we can’t quit.
He dropped this amid peak turbulence—X rants hitting billions of views, merch drops selling out in hours, and whispers of a ’26 tour that’s already got lawsuits brewing. At 48, Ye’s not evolving quietly; he’s exploding, trading billionaire gloss for bully-proof honesty that hits different when the world’s watching your unravel.
Dive into the WHITE LINES lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other BULLY tracks for more of Ye’s unfiltered soul-baring chaos.
Lyrics of WHITE LINES by Ye
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