Mike Dean says Kanye West restarted work on ‘Ye’ just weeks before release
nme.comMike Dean has opened up about Kanye West’s unpredictability in the studio, describing how just weeks before he was due to release 2018’s ‘Ye’, the rapper scrapped everything he and Dean had worked on.The anecdote was shared in a new episode of Nile Rodgers’ Apple Music 1 show Deep Hidden Meaning Radio.
The pair spoke about how Dean is often recruited to recording sessions so he can “Mike Dean it up”, with Beyoncé being a key example of an artist who seeks the producer out for his idiosyncratic style.Dean explained that he’s not concerned with how much of that style an artist will opt of keep on a record’s final mix, saying: “They can take all that, or 50 per cent of it, or 80 per cent of it… I’ve got real thick skin, so it doesn’t bother me – it’s like, you know, whatever they like of what I did, they can use.”Agreeing with Rodgers’ notion that you can’t be “passionate about your part” as a producer, Dean continued: “Exactly – or you’d get your feelings hurt, like, every day.
Especially working with like Kanye or Travis [Scott], you know, where it changes and everything’s really malleable until it’s over.
Anything can happen… Especially Kanye, you know?”Dean pointed to West’s eighth studio album, ‘Ye’, which famously went through dozens of iterations – at different points under the titles ‘Turbo Grafx 16’ and ‘Love Everyone’ – before it was released in June of 2018.
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