Grammy Award-winning composer Antman Wonder has taken a page out of A Tribe Called Quest’s notebook. As Q-Tip famously said on “Check The Rhime” in 1991: “Industry #4080, record company people are shadyyyyy” — and Wonder is learning that lesson the hard way.
On Thursday (September 9), Wonder shared an Instagram post claiming Kanye West not only left his contributions to Donda out of the credits but also several others.
“A little over a year ago I was tasked with helping a homie out writing on a record that happened to be for #DONDA,” he wrote in the caption. “The record finally dropped and some folks names were left off the credits (mine being one of them). So with all the fanfare and hype, and records being broken, I can’t even celebrate a win because technically I’m not a part of it.”
He continued, “I don’t believe in protecting shitty business practices with silence. Nothing should ever be released before it’s licensed or contracted. Whether this gets handled today or tomorrow, music shouldn’t be released without taking care of the musicians. This composition is from the outro of #believewhatisay (ironic). Rule #4080.”
Donda was released on August 29 after over a year of delays with features from the likes of JAY-Z, Lil Baby, Travis Scott and The Weeknd. The 27-track project also featured production from a laundry list of producers, including longtime collaborator Mike Dean.
Kanye West went back to the drawing board multiple times before the album finally arrived and allegedly ran through personnel. Earlier this week, Akademiks shared an alleged screenshot of a text exchange between Kanye and a Donda engineer. The conversation ends with the engineer being fired.
The messages began with Kanye texting the unidentified person at 9:34 a.m., “Good morning. Let’s work.” Roughly two hours go by with no response, so Ye supposedly text back, “You’re fired. Go home.”
Kanye West Tells 'Donda' Engineer To 'Go Find God' After He's Fired Via Text
The person on the receiving end then responded, “I’m really sorry. I have no excuse. I set an alarm for 7:30am. And for whatever reason my phone wasn’t alerting me. I woke up at 11:08 to missed calls and got dressed as fast as I could. Lou was already on his way to get boogz and they just got here. I didn’t call back right away cause I was in panic trying to find a ride. I know this is unacceptable. I’m sorry.”
But Kanye wasn’t having and wrote back, “Stop texting. Go find God.”
A source close to the situation told HipHopDX the engineer was quickly replaced by award-winning engineer Irko who happily took the job.
It’s amazing how so many people were involved in creating Donda and it still ended up so average.
Yeah his prime ended around Life of Pablo/ Kids See Ghosts. Donda isn’t bad I give it 7/10. The whole Drake vs Ye thint is stupid. All of that back and forth over 2 mediocre albums. Can’t wait until Kendrick Drops new tunes. This year Nas has best hip hop album only Kendrick can possibly top that
I cannot listen to that shit.
I recently got my dick sucked while listening to the Donda album and he went limp several times meanwhile I got my dick sucked again listening to CLB not only did he stay up I think I might have gotten the bitch pregnant by bussing ounces of nut down her throat and through her nose
Bruh, Ye might just be finished. This album was just not it.
Drake maybe finished. Without touring and all that shit I do not see Drake “surviving” post-covid. He’s relying on endorsements like Nike & ESPN to keep afloat, which means he has to be a complete corporate & masses sell out.
Kanye on the other hand is truly independent. Still able to tour, sell out shows, sell his Yeezy brand clothing and DONDA creative technology. He also has a creative school in the works. Kanye has become a capitalist monster and people will continue to buy his products and services for the next decade.
Drake is just gonna get more wack as he continues to have to pander commercial tracks to the masses and sell corporate endorsements in his songs.
Kanye can just be ultra creative and push his artistry becomes he does not need music to survive.
Stan, why you talking about Drake, though?
Didn’t Kanye say he didn’t release the music? Its like the whole world became idiots overnight. When has KANYE EVER NOT CREDITED ANYONE? All these stories coming out about Kanye soons as he drops his album, is not by coincidence, the industry has to keep stupid people stupid so they have to move Kanye out of the way, he is waking too many people up.Kanye has been dropping solo projects since what 2004, and has never dropped a album on a sunday without crediting the people. Also I see someone says Kanye is finished how? The whole world is saying donda is better. We can be talking sales because that would be everybody finished drakes sales aint the same , and Kanyes sales are 100 times better than all of the new artist.. So finished how.. compared to Kanye everybody flopped except Drake. These men have been taught to communicate like their mothers all passion absolutely no FACTS LOL
Not the whole world pal
Poor Kanye. He’d better find some more obscure soul samples because his shit has been wack since he stopped using that formula.
Y’all keep saying this album Donda “aint it” when it’ll be platinum in a month. Y’all are the minority cuz the fans love this albums