530 (song)

"530" is a song by the American hip hop superduo ¥$, composed of rapper Kanye West and singer Ty Dolla Sign, from their second studio album, Vultures 2 (2024).

[4] "530" was recorded for West's demo album Donda 2 in 2022, at the time of his divorce from media personality Kim Kardashian and it leaked online from the sessions.

[11] On November 10th, 2024, "530" was updated again, featuring a fully finished second verse from West as well as a few punch in lines from Ty Dolla Sign on both sections of the song.

[17] At the event, he played a new version of "530" which features new additional vocals from Ty Dolla Sign and a fully finished second verse.

Writing for HipHopDX, Sam Moore expressed that West delivers "a dose of poison" to Kardashian and a confessional first verse, moving smoothly from self-reflection to "solipsism and self-pity" as he criticizes her for parenting skills and his lack of access to their children.

[5] Providing a less enthusiastic review for Billboard, Michael Saponara ranked "530" as the fifth best song out of fifteen on Vultures 2 for West getting "poignant about his messy divorce" as he shows his strength of "turning his pain into powerful art".

[6] Fred Thomas of AllMusic commended that the song loosely invokes "the long-faded glory" of West's best work through "chopped vocal soul samples", yet he seemingly impersonates himself.

[20] At HotNewHipHop, Gabriel Bras Nevares felt that West's clear narrative and attempts at wordplay make for one of the album's "passable verses".

[21] In a mixed review, The Guardian's Ben Beaumont-Thomas felt that although the song depicts "a tequila-wasted voice note" from West, his unfinished lyrics and incomplete words are "startling: a portrait of someone drunkenly trying to piece his thoughts" as a whole, as well as his life.

[15] Stephen Kearse from Pitchfork said that West "squanders the anguished R&B loop" of the song and called it a "ripoff" of Drake's "Marvins Room" (2011), noting how he stumbles across the unfinished verse with "some scoop-diddy-whoops" and misogyny.

Kim Kardashian with then-husband Kanye West at the Met Gala in 2019
Recorded in the midst of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian 's divorce in 2022, the song's lyrics focus on their problems that followed.