“This version isn’t what I created”: James Blake distances himself from Ye’s “This One Here,” requests credit removal

James Blake wants to cut ties and distance himself from former collaborator Kanye West, also known as Ye.

Singer-songwriter James Blake has asked to remove his producer credits from Ye's song This One Here. Quentin Miller and Don Toliver, along with Blake and Ye, are listed as composers on the song. After the rapper dropped his twelfth solo album on 27th March, Blake made a post on his direct-to-fan streaming platform Vault. He said,

"The way I pitched his vocals and constructed the track from his freestyle is partially there, majorly peppered with other newer vocal takes etc. but the spirit of my actual production is mostly absent other than that. My original version is a completely different production in spirit. Happy for the fans but I’ve asked to be taken off the producer credits for now as I don’t want to take credit for other people’s work and this version isn’t what I created with Ye.”

He further wrote,

"It’s not personal! I just hit a point where don’t want to be credited on music where I can’t affect the end result.”

James Blake and Ye have had a long history of collaborating together. Though their professional relationship has had ups and downs. The two were linked together for the first time when West credited Blake as one of his favourite artists back in 2014. The following year, James wanted to feature the I Wonder singer on his album The Colour In Anything; however, it never materialised.

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“Something was supposed to happen; I don’t really know how to describe how that didn’t work out. I wanted Kanye to be on the song ‘Timeless’, but the verse didn’t materialize.”

But the two did eventually work together in 2022 on a joint project known as WAR, though no music was ever officially released.

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