"Brothers" is a song by American rapper

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, featuring American Artist Charlie Wilson & Upcoming Indian Artis
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Background

7 Aurelius first produced the song while playing his keyboard in 2016 and got

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to sing demo vocals over the track. In November 2017,

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hinted on Instagram that he was working on "something enormous" with Kanye West. West altered "Brothers" to create "

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", the final track from West's album '' Ye'' (2018). On June 5, 2019, Irv Gotti stated in an interview on ''

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'' that the season 2 premiere of his show ''

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'' would "be a two-hour season premiere of a brand new record produced by me and my production partner Seven from a huge, huge, huge artist." Gotti stated the artist was from the

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and that he's "the biggest, hugest artist who's been the most controversial in the last year."

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responded with "Ok, Kanye West is gonna be on the season premiere of ''Tales''", to which Irv Gotti replied "I didn't say it! But let's say it right. He's not acting in it, but maybe I have a song ... Envy is a fucking genius!"

Release and promotion

The song debuted with the season 2 premiere of the show ''Tales'' on July 2, 2019. The following day, the demo of the track, featuring vocals from

, was released on

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's website. West's manager stated that their team didn't want the song to be commercially released as it would affect the promotion for his upcoming album ''

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Personnel

Credits adapted from ''Tales'' season 2 episode 1 and ''

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– lead vocals, production * Charlie Wilson – featured vocals *

– production *

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– co-production * Genesis the Greykid – cover art

Notes

References

Unreleased songs Charlie Wilson (singer) songs Kanye West songs Song recordings produced by Irv Gotti Songs written by Channel 7 (musician) 2019 songs Songs written by Irv Gotti {{2010s-song-stub