John Legend talks Kanye West and New Album

By The Music Scoop
JR Staff Writer

Outside of his own successful career, Kanye West has been carefully working with many other artists. Before making it big in rap, West was one of the top producers in hip hop and R&B. Around the same time, he launched his rap career, Kanye also launched his own record label, G.O.O.D. Music.

John Legend was one of the first artists signed to the new label and his debut album came in 2005. Throughout the years, John Legend has remained close to Kanye West. When West took a hiatus, late in 2009, one of his closest associates was Legend. Recently, Legend spoke about his boss.

Despite releasing My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy right before the end of 2010, Kanye West is still working. First, he has his project with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne, but he also wants to release his next solo album before the end of the summer. Kanye West is already recording his next solo record and one of the first people to hear it has been John Legend.

Recently, he spoke on the new music, saying Kanye West has continued to sharpen his lyrical abilities, putting his lyrics on his last album to shame. Outside of his own album projects, Kanye West is helping out his G.O.O.D. Music label-mate on his next album. Earlier this month, John Legend announced he had hit the studio. After being in the studio for a couple of weeks, John Legend said he has a good feeling about the new music. Kanye West has produced a couple of beats and he has already recorded on them.

John Legend plans to release his album before the end of this year.