Nobody expects a Kanye album to drop on the day it's supposed to drop.

That's just not how such a stable genius works.

But his Vultures project has been pushed back yet again and won't come until the second half of January at the earliest.  Quite the delay, even for him.

In an Instagram discussion, Ye's guy, Malik Yusef, explained why they had to push back.

According to Yusef, Ty Dolla $ign -- whom Ye is doing the album with -- is still recording "all" of his singing parts.

This calls into question why they had been saying they would drop the album last month.

Yusef also insists the album won't be scrapped, as past Ye projects like Yandhi and Turbo Grafx 16 have.