This is an early version of Kanye West’s fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

This copy of the album was meant for Hype Williams, a music video director who went on to produce Kanye West’s ‘Runaway’ short film. This copy of the album was sent to Hype Williams before the official release so Hype could get an idea of the direction Kanye wanted the short film to go. This copy was very quickly leaked as a .zip file called RECORDFORHYPE.ZIP. Every song on this .zip file was password-protected, and on top of that, there was a master password that needed to be cracked to listen to the album. In 2010, 9 of the 15 passwords were discovered, but people gave up. 10 years later, people on Discord managed to crack the remaining 6 passwords in less than an hour, and in the early morning of July 27th, an anonymous user on 4chan commented “Password is wewantmoney, it’s not corrupted. music sucks,” and just like that, the master password was cracked and the songs were playable. After this, the songs were leaked online. The differences between this and the final album include a very different tracklist, some extra songs, some minor lyric changes and major verse changes.