Kanye West Reveals New Single With Paul McCartney; ‘Only One’ An Ode To North

The long rumored collaboration between Kanye West and Paul McCartney finally came to fruition on New Year’s Eve!

Kanye dropped his new single, “Only One” featuring the Beatles legend, late Wednesday night.

The ballad, written from the perspective of Kanye’s late mother Donda (who died in 2007 following surgery complications), is an ode to the rapper and Kim Kardashian’s baby daughter North.

“I talked to God about you, he said he sent you an angel/And look at all that he gave you/You asked for one and you got two,” the lyrics state.

“I just want you to do me a favor/Tell Nori about me/Tell Nori about me,” the track concludes.

“My mom was singing to me, and through me to my daughter,” Kanye said of the track.

No surprise, the song has earned the approval of North’s mom.

“People always ask me what my favorite Kanye song is and it’s Only One. Kanye feels like his mom sang thru him to our daughter,” Kim Kardashian wrote in a Twitter post after the song debuted.

“I cry every time I hear this song,” she added in another Tweet.

Rumors of a collaboration between Kanye and Sir Paul first surfaced back in August, with what was believed to be a track called “Piss On Your Grave.” But as it turns out, the pair first started working together much earlier in the year.

“In early 2014, Paul McCartney and Kanye West first began working together in a small bungalow in Los Angeles,” a press release from Kanye’s reps said. “The process that would result in “Only One” began with a simple brainstorming session between the two: With McCartneyimprovising on the keyboards and Kanye vocally sketching and shaping ideas in a stream-of-consciousness riff.”

And it appears “Only One” may not be the lone project between the two musicians. According to the release, the song is “the first publicly available recording from what has become a prolific musical collaboration between these two legendary artists.”

— Eric Anderson

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