# Vultures 2
**Vultures 2** (also styled **VULTURES 2**) is the second studio album by ¥$, the hip-hop superduo of [Kanye West](https://www.edgepedia.org/kanye-west) (Ye) and Ty Dolla $ign, released on August 3, 2024 on the YZY label. The album contains 16 songs with a running time of 49 minutes and is classified as hip-hop/rap.[1](https://music.apple.com/us/album/vultures-2/1798266953) It is the second of three Vultures albums the pair had promised, following *Vultures 1* of February 10, 2024.[2](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-drop-vultures-2-1235014145/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | August 3, 2024, surprise release; ℗ 2024 YZY; 16 tracks, 49 minutes[1](https://music.apple.com/us/album/vultures-2/1798266953) |
| Missed date | West confirmed a May 3, 2024 release on Justin LaBoy's *The Download* podcast; the date passed without the album[2](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-drop-vultures-2-1235014145/) |
| US chart debut | No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 107,000 album-equivalent units in a six-day tracking week; No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[3](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-debut-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart-1235752686/) |
| First-week composition | 60,500 pure sales, 46,000 streaming-equivalent units (59.4 million on-demand streams), 500 track-equivalent units[3](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-debut-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart-1235752686/) |
| Post-release revisions | Updated mixes, replaced verses and resequencing issued on streaming in real time after release[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/) • [5](https://musicbrainz.org/release/736dc7c9-b04c-4733-8be3-15f6730cf173) |
| Notable track | "BOMB", on which North West performs in Japanese with her younger sister Chicago West[6](https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/musique/kanye-west/musique-sortie-surprise-de-vultures-2-le-dernier-opus-de-kanye-west-et-ty-dolla-sign_6704727.html) |
## Background and the Vultures project
*Vultures 2* is the middle volume of a three-album plan announced by West and Ty Dolla $ign under the joint name ¥$. The first volume, *Vultures 1*, was released on February 10, 2024 and produced the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "Carnival", recorded with [Playboi Carti](https://www.edgepedia.org/playboi-carti) and [Rich the Kid](https://www.edgepedia.org/rich-the-kid).[2](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-drop-vultures-2-1235014145/) *Vultures 1* had drawn guests including Quavo, Travis Scott, Chris Brown, Mike Tyson, Playboi Carti, and a posthumous verse from [Nipsey Hussle](https://www.edgepedia.org/nipsey-hussle).[2](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-drop-vultures-2-1235014145/)
In an interview with Justin LaBoy on *The Download*, West confirmed that the second volume would come out on May 3, 2024. The date passed without a release, and the album arrived three months later without further announcement.[2](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-drop-vultures-2-1235014145/)
## Release and rollout
The album appeared on August 3, 2024 as a surprise release credited to ¥$ under ℗ 2024 YZY.[1](https://music.apple.com/us/album/vultures-2/1798266953) Before the release, Ty Dolla $ign had told [Billboard](https://www.edgepedia.org/billboard-magazine) in July 2024 that *Vultures 2* was finished but that the two were still finalizing plans for a proper rollout.[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/)
**Sales editions.** The first-week sales were supported by an unusually large set of editions: a standard explicit edition, a clean edition, and five webstore-exclusive explicit variants, each containing one bonus studio track. The webstore editions sold for $5, while the widely available digital editions were discounted to $4.99 in Apple's iTunes Store.[3](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-debut-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart-1235752686/)
Ye and Ty planned a series of listening experiences around the release, beginning in [Salt Lake City](https://www.edgepedia.org/salt-lake-city) on August 9, 2024, followed by shows in South Korea and Taiwan later that month.[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/)
## Composition and post-release revisions
The album runs 16 tracks: "SLIDE" (3:18), "TIME MOVING SLOW" (2:40), "FIELD TRIP" (2:43), "FRIED" (2:46), "ISABELLA" (0:09), "PROMOTION" (2:39), "530" (4:48), "DEAD" (4:23), "FOREVER ROLLING" (3:15), "BOMB" (2:31), "RIVER", "FOREVER", "HUSBAND", "LIFESTYLE" (3:23), "SKY CITY" (4:22), and "MY SOUL".[5](https://musicbrainz.org/release/736dc7c9-b04c-4733-8be3-15f6730cf173)
**Guests.** Reported guest appearances include Playboi Carti, Don Toliver, Young Thug, Kodak Black, and Future, along with West's daughters.[6](https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/musique/kanye-west/musique-sortie-surprise-de-vultures-2-le-dernier-opus-de-kanye-west-et-ty-dolla-sign_6704727.html) Metacritic lists 070 Shake and [Lil Durk](https://www.edgepedia.org/lil-durk) among the guests, while franceinfo lists [Lil Wayne](https://www.edgepedia.org/lil-wayne).[7](https://www.metacritic.com/music/vultures-2/kanye-west) • [6](https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/musique/kanye-west/musique-sortie-surprise-de-vultures-2-le-dernier-opus-de-kanye-west-et-ty-dolla-sign_6704727.html) On "BOMB", North West performs in Japanese alongside her younger sister Chicago West and her father.[6](https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/musique/kanye-west/musique-sortie-surprise-de-vultures-2-le-dernier-opus-de-kanye-west-et-ty-dolla-sign_6704727.html)
**Sample clearances.** West and Ty Dolla $ign were still facing sample-clearing issues at release: the fan-favorite leaked tracks "Take Off Your Dress", "Everybody", and "Gun to My Head" featuring [Kid Cudi](https://www.edgepedia.org/kid-cudi) did not make the final track list.[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/)
**Streaming updates.** After release, the album was revised on streaming services in real time, with new mixes, mastering, and vocal tweaks applied within hours; Billboard described it as a "living, breathing" work in progress.[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/) [MusicBrainz](https://www.edgepedia.org/musicbrainz) documents the changes in detail: streaming update #6 carried updated mixing on all tracks, an extended outro on "FRIED", a finished verse replacing Ye's mumbled verse on "FOREVER", changes to "BOMB", "FOREVER ROLLING", "LIFESTYLE", "SKY CITY", and "MY SOUL", and a tracklist resequencing matching update #5.[5](https://musicbrainz.org/release/736dc7c9-b04c-4733-8be3-15f6730cf173) The artist's official Bandcamp page sells a version labeled V.8.3.2024 whose track list includes "MAYBE", a title later changed to "FOREVER" on streaming.[8](https://yethegoat.bandcamp.com/album/vultures-2-v-832024)
## Commercial performance
*Vultures 2* debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 with 107,000 album-equivalent units in a six-day tracking week. Of that total, 60,500 units were traditional album sales, 46,000 were streaming-equivalent units equaling 59.4 million official on-demand streams of the album's songs, and 500 were track-equivalent units. The album started at [No. 6](https://www.edgepedia.org/no-6) on the Top Streaming Albums chart and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart.[3](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-debut-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart-1235752686/) It reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[3](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-debut-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart-1235752686/) Had it debuted atop the Billboard 200, it would have been Ye's 12th chart-topping project.[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/)
## Critical reception
Rolling Stone's review was sharply negative, running under a headline calling it time to "unsubscribe from the Kanye disaster" and criticizing West's contributions while noting Ty Dolla $ign's performances.[9](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-review-1235074427/) The review also described the album's artwork, which shows Ty Dolla $ign holding a framed image of his brother Big TC, who is serving a life sentence for murder; at the album's close Big TC harmonizes on "My Soul" about keeping his Muslim faith despite imprisonment, singing "It's predestined and God got a plan".[9](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-review-1235074427/)
## An album updated in public
*Vultures 2* departed from the conventional album rollout in which a fixed recording is delivered once. Ty Dolla $ign had said in July that the album was finished, yet after the August 3 release the duo continued editing it on live streaming catalogs: mixes and mastering were replaced within hours, Ye's unfinished "mumble" verse on "FOREVER" was swapped for a finished one, "FRIED" gained an extended outro, tracks were resequenced, and "MAYBE" was retitled "FOREVER".[4](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/) • [5](https://musicbrainz.org/release/736dc7c9-b04c-4733-8be3-15f6730cf173) • [8](https://yethegoat.bandcamp.com/album/vultures-2-v-832024) The versioned Bandcamp edition, labeled V.8.3.2024 after its date, effectively turned the album into a sequence of dated builds rather than a single artifact.[8](https://yethegoat.bandcamp.com/album/vultures-2-v-832024)
## References
1. [VULTURES 2 – Album by ¥$, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/vultures-2/1798266953)
2. [Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign Drop 'Vultures 2': Listen, Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-drop-vultures-2-1235014145/)
3. [Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign's 'Vultures 2' Tops R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart, Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-debut-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart-1235752686/)
4. [Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign's 'Vultures 2' Album Songs Ranking, Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-songs-ranked/)
5. [Release "VULTURES 2" by ¥$, MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/release/736dc7c9-b04c-4733-8be3-15f6730cf173)
6. [Musique : sortie surprise de "Vultures 2", franceinfo](https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/musique/kanye-west/musique-sortie-surprise-de-vultures-2-le-dernier-opus-de-kanye-west-et-ty-dolla-sign_6704727.html)
7. [Vultures 2 by Kanye West Reviews and Tracks, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/music/vultures-2/kanye-west)
8. [VULTURES 2 (V.8.3.2024) | ¥$ | Ye, Bandcamp](https://yethegoat.bandcamp.com/album/vultures-2-v-832024)
9. ['Vultures 2' Review: Time to Unsubscribe From the Kanye Disaster, Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-2-review-1235074427/)
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