“Forty-five, forty-four (Burned out), let it go / Ye ain’t changin’ shit for me, it’s set in stone.” (West is 44.) West responded by posting a screenshot of a group text that looked to include Drake, where he appeared to add Drake’s mortal enemy Pusha-T and sent a picture of the Joker. “All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know,” he rapped. Amid the circus of the Donda rollout, Drake appeared on Trippie Redd’s song “Betrayal,” dropping a subtle diss at West to reheat some old beef. That’s to say nothing of the Apple Music livestreams for West’s listening events, with the second and third each breaking Apple records at 5.4 and 5.9 million viewers, respectively. Continue to do things your way, congrats, and I’m honored to have been a part of the process.” And it definitely was about money, with Billboard estimating ahead of the Chicago event that each of West’s Atlanta events grossed between $1.5 and $2.7 million. “Watching you ‘joystick the culture’ makes us all proud. “This is about power, money, influence and taste…nothing more, nothing less,” he wrote. Upon the album’s release, GOOD Music president Pusha-T praised West in an Instagram post explaining the album. Except then it did, the morning of Sunday, August 29, in a fitting touch from pastor Ye. And for a third time, the album didn’t appear that following Friday, when albums are traditionally released. The routine repeated three weeks later, with West announcing a listening event at Soldier Field, in his hometown of Chicago, for August 26. Kanye living like a Scandinavian serial killer serving his 3 year maximum sentence. West again debuted an updated album, and said updated album again didn’t hit sales platforms and streaming. A new listening event followed two weeks later at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on August 5 West moved into the stadium in the interim, reportedly touching up the album and livestreaming his new life from a locker room in the stadium. West indeed debuted a version of the album on July 22, hours later than scheduled, but Donda wasn’t formally released afterward. West even confirmed the release date in a Beats ad that debuted during the NBA finals, starring sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson and featuring the previously teased song “No Child Left Behind.” West followed up the news by announcing his first public Donda listening event, at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22 - with the assumption being that the album would come out at midnight on July 23, a full 364 days after it was initially intended to. “Tell the Vision,” a Pop Smoke–featuring song initially teased on West’s first Donda track list, eventually came out on Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album, Faith, on July 16, complete with a verse from West’s GOOD Music president-partner Pusha-T.ĭays after, the first reports emerged of an A-list, invite-only Donda listening party that allegedly took place that weekend. In the months after, West didn’t say much about his next album, instead focusing on his campaign and releasing a Christmas EP with his Sunday Service Choir, Emmanuel. announces the release of his new album, ‘DONDA’ on Friday, July 24 including the highly anticipated “New Body.” /ySJKBd1NFJ- Pop Crave July 19, 2020ĭONDA coming this Friday /HGibF3PHYf- ye July 21, 2020īut the album never materialized on July 24 (possibly owing to Taylor Swift’s surprise folklore drop that same day, along with the general territory that comes with releasing an album on Kanye Time). ( Don’t even get us started on Yandhi.) The 20-song track list he tweeted on July 18 included many titles that ended up on the final released album, including “Donda,” “Keep My Spirit Alive,” “Lord I Need You,” “Off the Grid,” “Tell the Vision,” and “Praise God.” West tweeted a new track list on July 20, featuring a slimmer 12 songs, including new addition “I Know God Breathed on This,” which seemingly appears on the final album as “God Breathed.” He’d previously been teasing a Jesus Is King follow-up called God’s Country, and just released the single “Wash Us in the Blood” in late June Donda was thought to be the new iteration of that album. Then, on July 18, West tweeted and quickly deleted an announcement for an album called Donda, to be released July 24, 2020. Days after announcing his run in July 2020, West teased a song called “Donda” on Twitter, named for his late mother and posted on her birthday, July 12. The beginnings of Donda coincide with the beginnings of West’s doomed 2020 presidential run, as much as we may want to forget about that.
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