You awake. Your bed is covered in sweat, you had a nightmare. After mumbling something about “defcon 3” and “Parlor” you collect yourself and start your day.

Staring at Kanye’s Spotify page, you can’t believe your eyes. Yandhi is out. Fully polished production, no mumble verses. Still in shock, you turn on the radio and sure enough, they’re playing New Body basically every hour. It is being showered with critical acclaim as well. 9.4 Best New Music from P4K. Strong 8 to a light 9 from Fantano.

You turn on the TV and see Kanye on a morning talk show, smiling the whole time. He talks about how, while he won’t be hanging up the mic forever, he’ll be stepping back from solo music for a while to focus on fashion designing and occasionally producing for other artists á la DAYTONA. But most of all, he’ll be focusing on his family life. He reveals that he and Kim have hit a really rough spot in their marriage, and he realized that, while his meds might make him less musically creative, he doesn’t want to put his family through the uncertainty of loving someone with untreated severe bipolar disorder.

After a few years not getting much music (other than KIDS SEE GHOSTS 2), on 2/22/22, Kanye shocks everyone by dropping a surprise album. 14 tracks, all self-produced, titled Good Ass Job.

Then you wake up again and you were actually still dreaming and he just got escorted out of the Skechers building for being racist