Jesse James
After the anticipation, Kanye West and the late XXXTentacion have released their latest collaboration. The track is called “True Love,” and it’s pulled from Ye’s Donda 2 project, which exclusively streamed his Stem Player. The track was first previewed during Ye’s Donda 2 listening, and today it gets a proper release.
John Cunningham, X’s longtime collaborator, spoke about the track. He stated: “For four years, the song has been playing in my head. Ever since X first started singing “True Love” around the house in early 2018, it stood out to both of us as a special song. While we weren’t able to finish recording the song at the time, four years later, in January of this year, I had the opportunity to meet Ye while he was working on Donda 2, and I played him the demo of it.”
He continued, “At the time, it was only X’s vocal and my piano, but as soon as Ye heard it and started singing over the instrumental section in between X’s choruses, it felt like the song was always meant to be finished by him. As someone X has cited for years as one of his biggest inspirations both musically and more widely as an individual, Ye breathed a life into the song that I feel blessed to have been witness to. I couldn’t imagine being more proud of how this song came to be, both as a collaborator and as a friend trying to do right by the legacy of someone who was taken far before reaching their full creative potential.”
The track also plays over the ending credits of XXXTentacion’s documentary, LOOK AT ME: XXXTENTACION, now playing on Hulu and will be featured on the upcoming soundtrack, LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM. Check out the new single in the stream below and look for more from XXXTentacion coming soon.
