If we weren't already sure that Kanye's album is going to be amazing, here's more proof. In a recent interview Billboard conducted with Def Jam CEO Steve Bartels, he said that Kanye's new album "sounds incredible." Bartels goes on to say:

"He's focused, energetic, happy and making unbelievably great music. Kanye always wants to make sure that when it actually arrives it's at the best possible place it could be, that the first song is as big as the last. He's the absolute bar of perfection in terms of that. I tell him all the time: Some of his previous albums are still testing out in the marketplace as high, if not higher, than when they first came out because the music is still fresh to people."

We still haven't heard a thing as it pertains to a release date for the album, but hopefully it comes out sooner rather than later.

[Billboard]

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