"HIGHS AND LOWS" is a song by Kanye West that released as the tenth track to his demo studio album, BULLY V1 (2025).[1] The song was met with a release of March 18, 2025 and features production from West himself similar to the rest of the album.
Production[]
The song features a sample as well as an interpolation of Pomme's 2019 song "soleil soleil".[2] The intro of the song features Kanye AI over Pomme's vocals, though the base Pomme track is used throughout the rest of it. The track is played 4/4 time in 95 BPM, and it is in the key of G# Minor.
Background[]
The song was initially made some time in October 2024 by a reference artist who Kanye AI'ed over on the 17th of that month.[3] The song had appeared on all three BULLY track lists known built around the film,
The song was initially played in 2025 during Kanye's Switzerland listening event. The snippet was randomly shared on TikTok by a mysterious user of "internet.cum". Given Ye forcefully taken their camera it was assumed the snippet was never meant to be out there and internet.cum had been recording without permission, though it was later revealed internet.cum was actually a YZY employee and the snippet surfacing had simply been a PR exercise.[4]
The owner of the song's initial sample, Pomme would later come out to confirm she had no intention on clearing the sample for Kanye on Instagram.[5] On February 3rd, Kanye would go on to compare AI to autotune in the Justin LaBoy interview premiere, basically confirming that the song had used AI to mask over someone else's vocals and so had the rest of BULLY.
BULLY (Film)[]
The song along with the rest of the album would randomly be released by Ye himself on March 18 in film format and would release as a part of the BULLY visual film that had been made for the album,[6] though would later have been revealed to have been put out because it was entirely AI and the album was being reworked as Ye had founded a new disdain towards AI technology.[7] It is possible a new version feature no AI exists, though it's not confirmed as "MELROSE" is the only song he has confirmed himself that he's planned to record for.
The shared BULLY films were later taken down, likely as a result of legal troubles with Pomme, as shortly before their takedown Pomme had been informed of Ye's use of her song in the album and stated she had intended to have it dealt with.
HIGHS AND LOWS 2[]
Shortly after the release of the BULLY film, Kanye had went to X (fka Twitter) to tweet a remix to "HIGHS AND LOWS" entitled "HIGHS AND LOWS 2" that had stitched the off-key AI "HIGHS AND LOWS" vocals to the beat to his song "WW3". Some fans speculate this was because West was experimenting with different beats for "HIGHS AND LOWS" as the sample clearance was denied, though it is very unlikely he was planning on using the WW3 beat for the song as WW3 was set to be lead single to his album CUCK.[8]
Lyrics[]
[Intro: Pomme]
Qui, qui nous hante
Oh, reviens soleil, soleil
Qui, qui nous hante
Oh, reviens
[Chorus: Kanye West]
Highs and lows
I put you through a lot, I know
Highs and lows
Still, you never let me go
[Verse: Kanye West]
Ain't nobody bigger than the program
Till you bigger than the program
Climax fast to a slow jam
Toxic love, chemical romance
Somebody I love finally loves me back
Before I break your heart I'll have a heart attack
We separated, but we made it back
We gonna stay attached till we fade to black
[Chorus: Kanye West]
Highs and lows, highs and lows
I put you through a lot, I know
Highs and lows, highs and lows
Still, you never let me go
Trivia[]
- "HIGHS AND LOWS" serves as the first known song to be previewed through official means in 2025.
- "HIGHS AND LOWS 2" serves as the first ever and likely the last ever official Yedit made by Kanye himself.
References[]
- ↑ https://krakenfiles.com/view/FSGa9sh3xg/file.html
- ↑ https://genius.com/Kanye-west-highs-and-lows-sample
- ↑ https://pillowcase.su/f/a03ab43cbf6e3511b30f4ddc8a10bd98
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodAssSub/comments/1i1dngd/internetcum_was_not_the_camera_man/?tl=fr
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/DEfXgH1ysy7/?img_index=2
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIkI9kjnJ1U
- ↑ https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1902208914319667445
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodAssSub/comments/1jetdvl/highs_and_lows_2_why_it_exists/
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