![]() Donda 2 is upfront, confrontational, and carries a vicious streak. Both its lyrics and production are a marked break from last year’s Donda, with its predecessor’s melancholy and negative space now filled with rage-filled rants and more aggressive drums. Backed with a chorus sung by the late XXXTentacion, show opener “True Love” saw West lay his feelings about being separated from his kids bare (“Wait, when you see the kids?/I’ll see y’all tomorrow/Wait, when the sun set? I see y’all tomorrow/Wait, whеn I pick ’em up, I feel like they borrowed/When I gotta return them, scan ’em like a bar code”).īased on everything played last night - most of which was prerecorded and pantomimed by West and guests - Donda 2 is explicitly a divorce record. It didn’t take long for the central theme of Donda 2, the rapper’s estrangement from wife Kim Kardashian, to make itself apparent. West emerged onto the stage as his faux home began to burn, flames and smoke billowing out from its windows. ![]() Soon, the lights were shut off, a palpably hot explosion erupted, and the show was underway. Over the course of two and a half hours, the stadium was gradually filled with the sound of a bass-heavy heartbeat along with performers donning motorcycle helmets and all-black outfits. The structure, a re-creation of West’s childhood home, has quickly become a part of the artist’s visual canon, having featured prominently in the final listening party for Donda and the first installment of the Jeen-Yuhs documentary series on Netflix. Once the doors opened at 8 p.m., audiences were welcomed to their seats with the sight of a burned building situated in a reflective pool of water. But where that gathering was decidedly minimal, a testament perhaps to Kanye’s long-expressed aesthetic affinities, yesterday’s event ran with the template set by last year’s multiple Donda listening parties and offered imagery worthy of West’s grandiosity. It’s a ritual dating back to 2016 when the hip-hop iconoclast invited audiences to Madison Square Garden and theaters to listen to an unfinished version of The Life of Pablo. ![]() If online reactions are anything to go by, the sound issues that plagued the “Donda Experience Performance” left even the most ardent Yeezy acolytes with a sense of frustration and disappointment.īut for those who were there in person, last night’s show served up more than enough spectacle that said audio hiccups - if not the appearance by Marilyn Manson or questionable sample choices - could be forgiven.ĭonda 2 is the latest in a long line of West albums to premiere through a semi-live concert component prior to being properly released. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.The elaborate reveal of Kanye West’s latest album, Donda 2, was live-streamed online and in IMAX theaters last night, and listeners’ enjoyment seems directly correlated with their proximity to LoanDepot Park in Miami, where the event took place. Any artist who plan on dropping soon should just push it back.” Justin Laboy is whipping Kanye West fans into a trending frenzy on Twitter. He continued, “The production is light-years ahead of its time, and the bars sound like he’s broke & hungry trying to get signed again. “Kanye played his new album for me & night in Vegas,” said Laboy, stoking the trending Twitter fan frenzy. Suspicions started swirling over the weekend, after web personality Justin Laboy, 29, tweeted that West had played the upcoming album for Laboy and Brooklyn Nets baller Kevin Durant, 32. The rumored album drop would follow an “exclusive” listening event for a few close pals in Las Vegas on Sunday, NME reported. Two years after West’s long-delayed last album, “ Jesus Is King,” fans are now speculating that the rapper will be releasing his much-anticipated “Donda” - named for his late mother - as early as this Friday. Good news for fans of Kanye West: His long-awaited 2020 album might finally be released in the second half of 2021. What you need to know about Taylor Swift’s ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’Įd Sheeran on ‘horrible’ month: ‘Life hasn’t moved on for me yet’īeyoncé takes her top off, thanks fans for ‘Renaissance’ leak support Olivia Rodrigo’s raunchy ‘Vampire’ fight: ‘You can’t really say things like that’
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