In a revealing interview about his work on Yeezus, Rick Rubin shared that there “might” be a sequel to Kanye West‘s album.
“Initially, [Kanye] thought there were going to be 16 songs on the album,” Rubin revealed to The Daily Beast. “But that first day, before he even asked me to work on it, I said, ‘Maybe you should make it more concise. Maybe this is two albums. Maybe this is just the first half.’ That was one of the first breakthroughs. Kanye was like, ‘That’s what I came here today to hear! It could be 10 songs!'”
If Kanye decides to release Yeezus‘ sequel this year it would not be the first time this year that a major artist split a large collection of songs into two albums. Justin Timberlake announced that he will release his 20/20 Experience sequel on September 30th, 6 months after the 1st volume