What does YIKES stand for? 

Yikes

Yikes is a song by American recording artist Kanye West from his eighth studio album, Ye (2018). The song includes echoing voices and a chilling bass in its composition, and was produced by West, while co-produced by Mike Dean, with additional production from Pi'erre Bourne and Apex Martin. The song was written by West, Dean, Aubrey Graham, Cydel Young, Dexter Mills, Danielle Balbuena, Jordan Jenks, Asten Harris, Malik Yusef, Kenneth Pershon, Terrence Boykin and Jordan Thorpe, with the information being revealed what content Graham, professionally known as Drake, was responsible for. An aggressive track that resembles West's song "Wolves", "Yikes" contains samples of "Kothbiro", written by James Mbarack Achieng and Ayub Ogada, and performed by Black Savage. The lyrics include West rapping about tweaking on drugs and the outro sees West deliver spoken word in reference to his bipolar disorder. The song received generally positive reviews from music critics, who mostly praised its production, while some critics drew comparisons between the song and West's previous works.

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