Who is Dave Blunts? The ghostwriter rapper behind Kanye West's new album
Cuck, formerly named WW3, is not the first album Blunts has had a hand in. So, who is this 23-year old rapper from Utah? And how did he come to ghostwrite Ye's new album?
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