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Kanye West signs Tyga while working on album with Drake

By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 9 September 2016

Kanye West has signed rapper Tyga to his GOOD label. West apparently announced the signing at a fashion show in New York on Wednesday.

The deal sort of keeps things within the family, given that Tyga is currently dating Kylie Jenner, half sister of West’s wife Kim Kardashian. Though Tyga and West have collaborated in the past, so it can’t be just about doing an almost-family-member a favour.

Tyga also enabled his new label boss to play the role of peacemaker, which is always fun. Because, as WENN notes, it was seemingly West who got Tyga back talking to another of his former collaborators, that there Drake, after the former called the latter a “weirdo”.

“Kanye put us in a room together when he was doing his fashion show”, Tyga reports. “I didn’t even know he was there and we saw each other and gave each other a hug. At the end of the day, if somebody is not taking anything away from you, like family, it’s not affecting your family or taking away your money, you shouldn’t have a problem with somebody”.

So, that’s nice, isn’t it? Talking of West and Drake, as we sort of were, rather than both of them collaborating with Tyga, how about they just bloody well collaborate with each other? Well, that’s happening it seems.

Says West to Vogue: “We’re just working on music, working on a bunch of music together, just having fun going into the studio. We’re working on an album, so there’s some exciting things coming up soon”.

Exciting indeed. A Kanye West/Drake joint album. Presumably only available to people with Apple Music and Tidal subscriptions both active at the same time?