Hopefully we do more in the future.”ĭean is focused on the road ahead, and 2022 sounds like it’s shaping up to be another fruitful year. “She had a rough sketch of the song and an outline, so she came to my house, we expanded on it and firmed it up a little bit. “It was really cool,” Dean says of their collaboration. Wise,” he says of West, “and have entirely different skill sets.”ĭean, a six-time Grammy winner, has recently cultivated a musical partnership with singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, working on the song “Wildflower Wildfire” from Del Rey’s eighth studio album, “Blue Banisters.” “We are like yin and yang,” says the Texas native, who toured with Selena Quintanilla in his early days. I think I did like 35 songs in 10 days.”ĭean and West’s collaborative relationship dates back to 2003 when West started working on his debut album, “The College Dropout.” Since then, Dean has been an invaluable instrument in the creation of all of West’s albums, including 2010’s critically acclaimed “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and 2013’s “Yeezus.”īut it’s not their similarities that make West and Dean a power duo. I was flown in at the eleventh hour and it was pretty stressful.

I’m kind of surprised because it was chaotic in the making. “It’s really good,” he says of the album. After each one, West would go back to the drawing board and demand seemingly endless revisions.ĭean was present for both Atlanta events and is somewhat shocked “Donda” wound up sounding so seamless. Beginning in August, West held three public listening events - two in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and another in his hometown of Chicago at Soldier Field, each more of a spectacle than a chance to hear a body of music. Over a three-decade career, rappers with whom Dean has been inextricably linked include Kid Cudi, Travis Scott and Kanye West, whose long-awaited 10th studio album, “Donda,” he worked on this year.

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