Songfacts®:

• After years of controversy, including the 2022 anti-Semitic remarks that cost him deals with Adidas and a fair number of industry friendships, Kanye West arrived at his 2026 album Bully with something to prove. "All The Love," his collaboration with André Troutman, is a track about healing, forgiveness, and letting go of past pain.
• André Troutman is Ye's musical director and the son of the late Roger Troutman of Zapp, the pioneering funk musician who made the talkbox a defining sound in R&B and West Coast hip-hop, including on 2Pac's "California Love." Roger was tragically killed in 1999, but his legacy lives on directly through André, who has inherited both his father's instrument and his mastery of it. As both a producer and featured artist on "All The Love," Troutman's talkbox vocals give the track its most distinctive texture, wrapping the song in a buzzing, vocoder-adjacent warmth that sits somewhere between gospel and electronic soul. His fingerprints are all over Bully, where he serves as a key creative collaborator throughout.
• West created the song in 2025 for his shelved and controversial unreleased album CUCK under the working title "Gas Chambers," before repurposing it for Bully with a new title. Ye performed an early version at his concerts in Mexico City on January 30 and 31, 2026. Early versions featured AI-generated vocals - Ye publicly defended the technique in a February 2025 interview, comparing it to sampling and demonstrating how he flipped another artist's vocals into his own voice, but he confirmed via Instagram in March 2026 that all AI vocals on Bully had been replaced with his real voice.
• The track is built around a haunting loop from "Fayek Alaya," a 1963 Lebanese classic by the iconic singer Fairuz, written and composed by the celebrated Rahbani Brothers: Assi and Mansour Rahbani. The Arabic vocal runs throughout the song.
• West is not the first Western artist to sample Faiyaz. Macklemore sampled her on "Hind's Hall," while Madonna wove her voice into "Erotica."
• "All The Love" was produced by Ye, Troutman, Sheffmade, Quadwoofer, and 88-Keys. 88-Keys is a New York-based producer and close Ye associate whose relationship with West dates back to the early 2010s. His Kanye credits include the Watch The Throne song "No Church in The Wild," the Yeezus cut "Blood On The Leaves," and the Donda tracks "Jail" and "Heaven And Hell."