The song was originally recorded on April 5, 2019 during sessions for Yandhi, but was ultimately excluded from the final tracklist when the album was reworked into Jesus Is King.
On July 16, 2021, rapper Consequence posted a video to Instagram of West in the studio with Tyler, the Creator, with a snippet of "Life of the Party" being played.
[1][2] On July 18, the original version of the song recorded earlier that year (which did not include any vocals from André 3000) was previewed at a private listening event in Las Vegas.
[3] West played the song for German news outlet Bild in Berlin on September 2, stating that a video shoot was planned and that he wanted to release it soon.
The song ended up being omitted from the album due to West's stance on profanity and André 3000 not agreeing to his verse being edited to be clean without having the raw original available.
The music video doesn't feature any of André 3000's vocals, possibly due to the controversy of the song being released without consent of his verses being censored.