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Bianca (song)

unreleased song by Kanye West

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ140690380 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Bianca" (stylized in all caps) is an unreleased song by the American rapper Kanye West from his unreleased studio album, Cuck. It features uncredited vocals from fellow American rapper Dave Blunts, who also wrote the lyrics. West previewed the song during a livestream with media personality DJ Akademiks on April 2, 2025, where he also announced the album. "Bianca" features chipmunk soul production and high-pitched vocals, with West pleading for his wife Bianca Censori to return home after allegedly leaving him due to Tweets he made in early 2025. West raps about tracking Censori's location on the Maybach app and compares their relationship to that of Sean "Diddy" Combs and Cassie Ventura, which drew condemnation from online publications.

Background

Kanye West announced the album Cuck (then known as WW3) during a livestream with media personality DJ Akademiks on April 2, 2025, where he showed a track listing that included "Bianca" as the fifth track. The song was previewed by West on the stream, causing rumors that he and his wife Bianca Censori had divorced to continue spreading after Yeezy representative Milo Yiannopoulos repeatedly denied them in February 2025. West's preview received mixed reviews from publications; Jazmin Toliver of HuffPost described the song as "unhinged" and "disturbing", a sentiment shared by The Mirror US editors Jamie Roberts and Scarlett O'Toole in regards to West's "Cassie and Diddy" comparison, though they considered his plea for Censori to "come back" to be "heartfelt". West and Censori were later seen together at a dinner in Spain on April 18, which was interpreted as confirmation that their split was temporary.

An older version of "Bianca", played during a livestream on May 4, 2025, featured Jersey club-inspired production and the alternate line "I'm taking my focus off Diddy", which West later replaced with "I guess we the new Cassie and Diddy".

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Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bianca, song and unreleased can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bianca (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.