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.