Kanye West Wiki
Kanye West Wiki

"THE KING OF SOUL"[1] (also known as "JARED") is an unreleased song by Kanye West found in the DJ Akademiks posted tracklist for CUCK (2025).[2] The song is likely about both Jared Kushner, the Senior Advisor to the President during Donald Trump's first term, who Ye is on bad terms with[3] and spokesperson turned-sex offender Jared Fogle.[4]

Production[]

"THE KING OF SOUL" samples a snippet of an unreleased song Justin Bieber posted to his Instagram story,[1] Camille Yarbrough's 1975 song, "Aint It a Lonely Feeling", and Nancy Dupree's 1969 song, "James Brown".

Background[]

On April 2nd, 2025, streamer DJ Akademiks posted a tracklist for WW3, which showed "JARED" as the ninth track.[2] A VC-recorded snippet of the song would leak on April 8th, 2025.[5] It would be played again on a Twitch stream April 24th, 2025.[1]

The song was leaked alongside the rest of CUCK in a $999 charity group buy for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 18, 2025.[6]

Lyrics[]

https://genius.com/Kanye-west-the-king-of-soul-lyrics

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ye breaks down how he sampled Justin Bieber's instagram freestyle into a song". @freetrash. April 24, 2024. Retrieved June 19, 2025 – via TikTok.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Kanye West Is Supposedly Dropping A New "WW3" Album Today". HotNewHipHop. April 3, 2025. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  3. "Why has Kanye West turned on his old friend Jared Kushner?". The Independent. October 11, 2022. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/1kqs52b/who_is_jared_and_why_was_he_eating_kids/
  5. https://pillowcase.su/f/cdba48f8c152925a782f1e00ed10454f
  6. Moore, Sam (May 19, 2025). "Kanye West's 'Cuck' Album Leaked By Hackers". HipHopDX. Retrieved May 24, 2025.