DJ Toomp, who collaborated with Kanye West on 2007’s Graduation, recently sat down with B High ATL where he provided a brutally honest assessment of Kanye West’s forthcoming Donda album. While media personality Justin Laboy swore the project was an instant “classic” after hearing a private listening party in Las Vegas, it sounds like Toomp isn’t so sure.
Speaking candidly to host Brian “B High” Hightower, he talked about his experience at the Apple Music listening party held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on July 22 and confessed the Donda he heard didn’t sound anywhere near complete.
“I hope the album doesn’t sound like this,” Toomp says at the 8:57-minute mark, referring to the lack of drums in Donda’s production. “If I was in the studio with ‘Ye, I’d say ‘Is this shit gonna drop anywhere? Cause you build us up and we thinkin’ that shit finna go crazy but right when you think a beat’s gonna drop, that shit go to another song.’ That’s why I was like ‘This album must not be finished.”
Kanye West has set up shop at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium where he’s been hard at work finalizing the long delayed album. Veteran producers Rick Rubin and Mike Dean, who have both worked with Kanye in the past, allegedly flew to the Georgia metropolis to add their signature touches. Toomp would’ve been up for the job as well.
“I would really love to help him put that album together,” the Atlanta producer said at the 12:40 minute-mark. “I want to hear some more lyrics, man. Definitely beats. But as far as the artist, I want to hear lyrics. Where that shock value at that he usually brings, ya know?”
Kanye West Doesn't Diss Kim Kardashian On 'Donda' Album Despite Rumors
Later, Toomp noted he was impressed by some of the rumored features expected to be on the project, including JAY-Z and Lil Baby, but is looking most forward to Kanye’s introspective lyrics.
“He just got out of a divorce, so there’s a few things that he wanna pour out personally on that album,” Toomp said at the 29-minute mark. “It may be a real personal album. If you naming this Donda after your moms, where’s that mom record at that’s gonna make every n-gga whose mom ain’t here no more feel like it’s their favorite shit on the album.”
On one particular song, Kanye does croon about losing his family, but he reportedly doesn’t say anything negative about his estranged wife Kim Kardashian.
Donda was expected to arrive on July 23 but now has a projected release date of Friday (August 6), the same day Nas is scheduled to drop King’s Disease II. A second listening party is expected to take place on Thursday (August 5) in Atlanta.
I’m sure Toomp is correct; there’s no way that album is finished.
Salute to Toomp. Every album since MBDTF has been rushed.
are they going to start shooting each other?
If you want that real shot Toomp, you don’t have to wait anymore because Nas is coming this Friday. Fuck all that other weirdo shit. Kanye is not going to bring us nothing to bang but our fucking heads on the wall for wasting 60 minutes of our lives listening to his wack shit. Nas is coming….August 6th, 2021 will be that King Disease II
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Only a person like Kanye would throw a listening party at an arena for an unfinished album, lol! His ability to pump fake and hezzy is HOF status.
whenever a wrapper breaks up or divorces he always goes hard. but kanye been wack af since watch the throne
Hey mane, you have made my day saying “wrapper”. GD!
He needs to drop the album then hit the psych ward crazy ass bastard
So like his last few albums? They all sound like incomplete demos.
If the album is not received well, Kanye will probably tell us again that he is a genius and we just don’t understand his art.
Yup, Kanye has gone from trolling in real life to trolling in his music.
Use This Gospel could have been an absolute banger if he didn’t tease drums and only deliver the last few bars of the song.
The trend of drumless songs has run its course, this ain’t it.
That album not coming this weekend.
At this point just drop it and I’ll throw the drums on myself. Sick of waiting and sick of these no drums tracks so I’ll do it my damn self
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Why people are even entertaining this goof and clown is unfathomable. This arrogrant, egotistical self proclaimed genius is more of a circus and sideshow then anything else. He thinks he is some elite intellectual and artist whose genius and ssuperiority is not understand by the rest of the music and fashion industry. His music sucks and lets nottalk about those homeless starwars fashion pieces he put out. Guy is a clown. Screw Donna the ratchet and is this album even about his ugly mom? Is he dropping bars about her cosmetic surgeries ? I guess he couldn’t handle it when found out his trophy wife was with half the industry. What a blow to his shallow ego that must have been. Kim left him because his breath smelled like Ray J genitals. Talk about meatloaf for dinner and leftovers.
You have anger problems and need medication. You aren’t too different from Kanye.
You just wasted a lot of energy on a man who doesn’t give about u … w u? … He is way up there loser!
It would have come out this weekend, but now that this interview dropped, Kanye will be calling Travis Barker to come add drums, which will push it back to September 18. Between now and 9/18, the album will go through about 4 name changes.