After previewing it earlier that day on The Ellen Show, Kanye West releases the “Only One” music video. As he tweets, it's directed by Spike Jonze with the concept by Vanessa Beecroft. Vanessa Beecroft later becomes a major part of "Yeezy Season 3", but that's getting ahead of ourselves.

Coming off a contentious deal with Nike, as voiced on his Yeezus Tour, Kanye makes a move to Adidas. Adidas commented on the deal to WSJ below:

“For 2014, we welcome to the adidas family, one of the most influential artists of this generation – 21 times Grammy Award winner, Kanye West. He crosses music and fashion like no other, and together, with our history in fashion and streetwear culture, we will create a new chapter. Details to follow.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Seth Rogen explains how he got an exclusive listen of Kanye’s new album:

"There's no lyrics, only beats. So he raps the whole album, and after each song, he stops it, like, 'So what do you think?' We were in the van for two hours!"

Seth explained the story in more detail to Howard Stern here.

Kanye discusses the work he's started work on his next album on Power 99. He also mentions the possibility of a "Cruel Summer" follow up, "Cruel Winter", and a "Watch The Throne" follow up.

“I haven’t named my next album, but I have started on it…I’d like to have another album out by next summer”

According to an Instagram post from Kanye West collaborator Theophilus London, Kanye played his new album to an intimate crowd in Paris. No clear audio or video emerges.

The post has since been deleted. Here is the original post content:

So shortly after this picture I Only remember kanye playing his new album 3 times in a dark room of 20 people last night and moshing drunk with mad babes haha. VIBES ALBUM RELEASE PARTY LATER TODAY. Same place same vibe courtesy of @virgilabloh 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

As a part of a community service fulfillment, Kanye guest lectures a class at the L.A. Trade Technical College.

Via Complex, one student in attendance says says Kanye is waiting on the album to come out, implying that it may be completed and turned into Kanye’s label, Def Jam.

Complex: Did he talk about his new album?

Someone asked him about that, he said he’s waiting on it. He didn’t say anything else except that except that he’s waiting for it to come out.

After teasing it the previous month to Rolling Stone, a rough version of “All Day” leaks. The audio is quickly scrubbed from blogs and news sites. Kanye’s previous commentary on the single to Rolling Stone:

Even lyrically, I think about certain lines that I say on my new single, which is called "All Day," that usually Jay would say, but Jay's not on there. So I say, All day, nigga, it's Ye, nigga. Shopping for the winter, it's just May, nigga. Ball so hard, man, this shit cray, nigga. You ain't getting money unless you got eight figures. Right? Jay would have said that.

Talking to Rolling Stone, Kanye drops some lines from his upcoming single “All Day” and discusses possible release dates alone with missing an originally planned June 2014 release.

”I hope I can get one of these songs out in the next couple of weeks, just to have something up and running. But I think most likely September. I go back and forth. Like, should it be September or should it be October? Should it be November? … I was thinking it could somehow come out in June, like Yeezus, and just kill it for the summer. But then I'm like, I have to work on Adidas and be with my child.”

Coming off the US leg of "The Yeezus Tour", RocNation announces that the Australian tour dates will be pushed back from May 2014 to September 2014.

Due to unexpected timing requirements to finish his highly anticipated new studio album, scheduled for a 2014 release, Kanye West regretfully announces the postponement of his upcoming tour dates in Australia.