 West and Kid Cudi first collaborated on the track "Welcome to Heartbreak", which features the latter and is from West's fourth studio album "808s & Heartbreak" (2008).The two later experienced a troubled relationship at times, including Kid Cudi branding West as a "hater" in September 2016.In March 2018, he was spotted with West in Wyoming; "Ye" was recorded that year at West Lake Ranch in the state's valley Jackson Hole.