He doesn’t know if it’ll happen, but he (along with a ton of new Twitter followers who’ve congratulated him on the lucky guess) certainly hopes Kanye keeps his word. It was just so boss.”īecause you’re surely wondering, Holley hasn’t been contacted by anyone from Kanye’s camp. “To be honest, I think So Help Me God was the best title ever. but he still doesn’t think it’s the best one. Not my fav of his, but it's the one I appreciate the most. This is Kanye's most creative and adventurous album. This is Kanye's most personal album (fuck ye). this is so crazy.”Īs for the so-called final album title itself, Holley says he’s a fan. There is not a single Kanye album that has become more crucial and defining in recent years as The Life of Pablo As of 2019, this is Kanye's most important album. “All these messages started coming in from more and more people… and I’m not that popular! Then I saw Kanye’s tweet and. Kanye West has apparently ended his sneaker contest early: the name of his new album, previously referred to as TLOP, stands for The Life of Pablo, according to a tweet from West this evening. “I look at my phone and all these people were tweeting me, ‘You won, you won!’” Holley said. Holley was hanging out at home with his girlfriend when his phone started “blowing up” with Twitter notifications. on Monday night, adding just another entry to the flood of guesses pouring in from around the world.įast forward to Wednesday night.
He sent the tweet (from the account for the label he co-runs) at 10:37 p.m. That “No More Parties In L.A.” lyric - which Holley said he believes to be a reference to Pablo Escobar - was all the inspiration he needed to write “the life of Pablo” in reply to Kanye. And that’s when I heard the lyric, ‘I feel like Pablo when I’m working on my shoes.’” “But then I was listening back to the first two singles he dropped to look for clues. “When I first saw I initially thought it’d be ‘the something of something,’ and then I thought ‘The Life Of The Party,’” Holley said. He tweeted out multiple guesses on Monday night (including “The Last Optimus Prime” and “The Laws Of Power”) before deciding to dig a little deeper for legitimate clues. Holley, a 20-year-old rapper and producer from New Jersey, is a huge Kanye fan who counts Yeezy as one of his biggest influences: “I wouldn’t be making music without him,” he told MTV News over the phone, about an hour after Kanye’s big reveal.īut Holley’s guess wasn’t just pure superfan intuition.