Kanye West's longtime collaborator and fellow Chicago native Malik Yusef recently detailed the follow-up to 2013 "Yeezus."

Yusef, the second signee to West's G.O.O.D. Music record label, previously won Grammys for his impressive work on the 2011 hit "All of the Lights."

While sitting down with Rolling Stone, the songwriter-rapper discussed what it was like to team up with Yeezy on their last project. "'Yeezus' was a hard album to work on because it was a departure from where I wanted to be with our music," he said. "Kanye was very declarative in his statement of 'I don't want this to be a regular Kanye album. I don't want this to be what people are familiar with.'"

Yusef claimed that the "Bound 2" rapper's highly anticipated seventh album would be different, sound-wise. "This album is different. It's like a pair of Timberlands; like how Timberlands are not quite leather and not quite suede," he said. "It's not the smooth, slick Chicago music sound we have right now and it's not the ruggedness of just 'hip-hop hip-hop hip-hop.'

"We're still working like a motherf*cker," he continued. "We've been all around the world [recording]."

The "G.O.O.D. Morning, G.O.O.D. Night: Dawn" rapper then admitted that recording with the "Mercy" hitmaker went much smoother this time. "We fought over 'Yeezus' every day," he said. "There was no friendly disagreements. It was definitely a war. It's 'I don't give a f*ck, Malik. It's a Kanye album, not a Malik Yusef album.' Kanye's kicked me off the label eight times."

Malik Yusef also revealed that West currently has "20 finished songs."

According to his interview with GQ, Kanye West hopes to release his new album "most likely in September" but possibly in October or November. "I was thinking [the record] could somehow come out in June, like 'Yeezus' and just kill it for the summer. But then I'm like, I have to work on Adidas and be with my child."