Kanye West & Rihanna's Taylor Swift–Baiting 'Famous' Is the First 'Life of Pablo' Single

FUSE TV - Kanye West & Rihanna's Taylor Swift–Baiting 'Famous' Is the First 'Life of Pablo' Single

Kanye West said he's never putting The Life of Pablo anywhere but Tidal. He also said he's done making physical CDs. But he's still gonna do the radio thing at least once for TLOP.

Def Jam has reportedly announced "Famous" as the album's first single. While it's best known as the track with the controversial bars "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made the bitch famous," it's also a remarkable sonic feat with:

Rihanna opening things up with a Nina Simone hook
–Sister Nancy's "Bam Bam" getting a front-and-center sample
Swizz Beatz doing his much-missed Swizz Beatzian hype-man act
–Nina Simone closing things out with that song of hers that Rihanna sang earlier, "Do What You Gotta Do"

In short, it's gonna remind people that Kanye's a hitmaker, not a Twitterer.

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