Donda

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With all the listlessness and confusion happening on Donda, Kanye’s infamous joke bars land with a thud. Following the album's release, the song entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at number six, giving West his 19th top-10 hit on the chart. Although the song was not included on the first version of the album, [52] it later appeared on the deluxe edition. The rapper ended up recording his verse for " Hurricane" after Kenyan-American rapper KayCyy suggested to him that he should contribute to it. After rumors emerged of intimate Donda listening events in mid-July, West confirmed the album was imminent, teasing its release in a Beats ad starring sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.

West recorded much of the material at multiple locations in the summer of 2021, including Bighorn Mountain Ranch in Wyoming and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Unfortunately, a couple days after her breast surgery prodcedures, she had passed away on November 10, 2007, due to coronary artery disease and multiple post-operative factors from, or as a consequence of, liposuction and mammoplasty. Simultaneously, an explicit version of "Life of the Party" was released as a single from the deluxe edition. West's manager Abou "Bu" Thiam teased the release of Donda on June 8, 2021, commenting on Gap's Instagram post announcing their jacket with Yeezy, "WestDayEver.The opening verse on “Jesus Lord” is the most focused and raw Kanye’s been in years, a swirling mass of pent-up anxiety, drug addiction, and memories of his mother. executive Alexandre Arnault and D'estree founder Geralde Guyot after their wedding in Venice, Italy, which included "Come to Life" and "Believe What I Say". It is both minimalist and maximalist, with darker lyrical content and production in comparison to West's prior efforts, in addition to a reduced use of drums and complete absence of profanity.

The event ended with him being elevated to the ceiling of Mercedes-Benz Stadium by harness, in a manner reminiscent of ascending to heaven. Sofia Coppola’s film, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, is a wish-fulfillment dream that loses momentum when its subject wakes up. The black-and-white visual incorporates aerial footage from the album's Soldier Field listening event that shows the replica of Kanye West's childhood home, on which flashes of old pictures of Donda are projected.Following the listening event, Revolt host Justin LaBoy posted a photo of himself with West and referred to Donda as album of the year. Although the album was promised to be released immediately following the event, it ultimately wasn’t once again.

The source continued by opening up that West knows "people are going to be upset" and he will experience "backlash", and is also aware "people are talking about it today when they wouldn't have been otherwise".

He also confirmed that the album’s title would be God’s Country in a tweet, but the name underwent another change. In late July 2021, a representative for West announced a release date of August 6 for Donda, [105] [106] which was later confirmed via both a Beats by Dre commercial and West's Apple Music livestream. He elaborated by explaining that "each listening party was like a test" of sorts, with West succeeding each one by taking all "the information he got from everyone, including online reviews [and] personal friends' reviews", then "digest[ing] it all" in a manner to "adjust" Donda "the way" he wanted.

After the original and remix were both removed from streaming services in the lead up to Donda 's release, neither of them made the final cut. m. [185] On August 24, 2021, Chopper 7HD flew over Soldier Field, capturing the construction of a replica of West's childhood home at the stadium's center.

Jon Caramanica wrote for The New York Times that in Donda, West continues to trade off the lyrical focus on self-awareness and wordplay of his earlier material for a more "terse and immediate approach, one that complements his musical shifts toward the industrial and the spiritual", which he started to do in the 2010s.