Highlights (song)

One day before the album was released, West performed the song on Saturday Night Live with Young Thug, El DeBarge, Kelly Price and The-Dream.

[12][13] The song was first heard when West performed it Saturday Night Live with Young Thug, El DeBarge, Kelly Price and The-Dream on the very day before The Life of Pablo was released.

[15] Another demo leaked online in the same month that's more than a minute longer than the officially released version and features extra verses by West, including lyrics about Chloë Sevigny and The Brown Bunny.

The Guardian's Alexis Petridis described the song, along with fellow The Life of Pablo tracks "Low Lights" and "Ultralight Beam", as not feeling "episodic so much as fractured".

[17] Young Thug's appearance on the track lead to Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone putting him forward as being one of the album's high-profile guests that "play the role of Yeezy's sick conscience".

[18] Christopher Hooton of The Independent claimed that Thug "was used too sparingly" and also voiced the opinion that "[The] song could comfortably sit on [West's album] Graduation which I don't think is a good thing.

[21] The song was listed by Philip Cosores of Consequence of Sound as an example of where there's stale lyrics on the album and he branded it as West "talking nonsensically about Ray J".

[25] However, Ray J never responded to being name-dropped in "Highlights", but did give a negative response to the music video for West's song "Famous" from the very same album, which features a nude model of him in it.

[28] On the July 10, 2016 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, West's wife Kim revealed that a music video had been filmed on a glacier only accessible via helicopter in Iceland during a family trip there in April and her sister Kourtney Kardashian revealed during the same episode that it was shot for her favourite The Life of Pablo song, which she had named as "Highlights" at an earlier date.

[30] Pictures of the family trip were shared to Kim's Instagram and prior to the information being revealed that West had shot a music video, he had already released one for fellow album track "Famous".