Kanye West Is Apparently Back On His Mountaintop Making Music

Kanye West famously recorded his 2010 album, My Pretty Dark Twisted Fantasy, in Hawaii, and the stories of personalities as disparate as Rick Ross, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, and Nicki Minaj making music amid clouds of marijuana smoke are legendary. As West works on his new LP, reportedly in picturesque Wyoming, I can't help although wonder: Are such revelries happening on this majestic mountaintop out west?


According to some recent updates from eagle-eyed Kanye fan accounts, the response might be yes. And that's exciting.


Above is a trial of the organic wonders by which West has apparently surrounded himself, plus a fast little snippet of his own head (complete with what looks like pink hair). Photos on fan accounts seem to confirm this, and also Kim Kardashian's presence out there also, doing some skiing.


But even more critical than West's hair or Kim's slope work is who else has seemingly made the trek up to Kanye's mountaintop creative kingdom (and it does seem to be creative, as per this shot of recording/editing software). In the past week or so, Travis Scott, Kid Cudi, Nas, A$AP Bari, King Louie, and The-Dream have all been reportedly spotted in Wyoming, and also producers Jeff Bhasker, Wheezy, and Pi'erre Bourne.


Of course, just because all these talented musicians and writers happen to be in the same general location as Kanye at the same time he is doesn't mean they're recording with him. And even if they are, there's no guarantee that their contributions will be made into final songs at all, let along songs that make it to a hypothetical eighth West LP.


Yet it still could mean that. And that's good news, especially immediately after West's erratic behavior and eventually canceled Saint Pablo Tour at the end of 2016.


The last we heard from him, he popped back up on Instagram for a day — Valentine's Day — as a grand romantic gesture for his partner. Perhaps the next thing we'll hear is a song or two — music he did not have to go all of the way to Hawaii to make.