UBS Arena hosting listening party for Ye and Ty Dolla $ign's new album, 'Vultures, Volume 1'

Hip-hop star Ye, formerly Kanye West, is releasing his album collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign, “Vultures, Volume 1,” with a listening party Friday at 9 p.m. at UBS Arena in Elmont, following one in Chicago Thursday.

Tickets for the UBS show go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com, with prices starting at $140.

Billing themselves as ¥$, the musicians made no mention in a news release of attending either party. The release states ambiguously that “attendees will listen to the album together with the artists and album collaborators” plus unnamed “special guests.”

The event’s representatives did not respond to a Newsday request for clarification or details. Neither 24-time Grammy Award winner Ye, 46, nor Grammy nominee Ty Dolla $ign, 41, born Tyrone Griffin Jr., has commented on social media other than with pro forma promotional posts for the event.

The album is Ye’s first public musical project since a plethora of antisemitic comments and other hate speech beginning in October 2022 that has cost him sponsorships and representation and alienated him from the recording industry.

Originally announced to drop Dec. 15, the album was sequentially delayed to Dec. 31, Jan. 12 and Jan. 19. Ye previewed it for surprised patrons of the upscale Miami restaurant Dukunoo Jamaican Kitchen on Dec. 10, the last day of the annual Art Basel Miami fair, with cuts from the album. Then, in the wee hours of Dec. 12, he and Ty Dolla $ign hosted a rave at the city’s open-air Wynwood Marketplace that featured the previously released title track and 15 other songs.

On Wednesday, the pair released the video for “Talking/Once Again,” which in addition to the two stars includes North West, Ye’s eldest daughter with Kim Kardashian, and Jailynn Griffin, the daughter of Ty Dolla $ign.

Ye in late December offered a since-removed social-media post apologizing to the Jewish community.