Much like the 27-song project’s opening track, the name “Donda” is flying all over Twitter after Kanye West’s tenth studio album finally arrived on Sunday (August 29).
Titled after Ye’s late mother Dr. Donda West, Donda has been a long time coming for Kanye’s fans. The album was pushed back numerous times as his Donda listening parties grew increasingly more elaborate and talked about.
But as typical for anything related to Kanye, the album’s rollout has been buried in controversy, frustration and just general fan fatigue.
Shortly after Donda arrived, Kanye went to Instagram and claimed Universal released it without his permission. The 44-year-old father of four also accused the label of blocking DaBaby’s verse on “Jail 2.”
“UNIVERSAL PUT MY ALBUM OUT WITHOUT MY APPROVAL,” he wrote. “AND THEY BLOCKED JAIL 2 FROM BEING ON THE ALBUM.”
Meanwhile, DaBaby’s manager Arnold Taylor had already been identified as the culprit, something he emphatically denied.
Kanye West Claims Universal Released 'Donda' Without His Permission + Blocked DaBaby Collaboration
Despite the cloud of negativity surrounding the release, Kanye West fans were mostly elated by its arrival.
Contributions from Lil Baby, JAY-Z, Travis Scott, Roddy Ricch, Lil Durk and more helped sew the project together and fans were quick to deliver their thoughts on the official follow-up to 2019’s Jesus Is King.
But if Kanye is unhappy with the album’s release, there’s no telling what could happen. For now, stream Donda above and check out fan reactions below.
he was wearing a vest with his late mothers name.
Soooo….
Lobotomize these people.
You should do it yourself. Busy consumed about another persons success. Quit it Evan.
Wow, bet that burnt out your last remaining brain cell. Oh well. At least I don’t have to worry about an intelligent response from you then lol. Disregard what I said previously, there’s nothing left but empty space now… but hey room for rent… great rates. Oh wait, I’m currently taking up space inside this peon’s cranium but don’t worry though cuz I’m definitely leaving ASAP cuz there’s no AC lol.
Who TF is Evan, is that your boyfriend. IDGAF about him. Ye fans who think this is classified as actual good music are completely retarded and probably either have very low IQ’s or drink swamp water and complain about the government is farting in the drinking water supply and having sex with Venusian women-eaters who cause global warming. GTFOH and just face the reality that ye is a delusional madman who’s completely entranced all of you idiots as his loyal puppets just so he can have an endless supply of money (non tax taxable religious/donors) Bravo, Marionettes..Take a Bow.
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Yaaaaaaaas!!!! Go play ur CLB when it drops, and much support. Black folk furious their light skinned king didn’t drop on the day of. Listen, he will. I won’t bother commenting when it does. Grow tf up
complete garbage wtf
Most Kanye West Fans and Groupies typically have no life so that’s kinda ironic isn’t it.
kanye west donda, could very well surpass GRODT. if it can out sell 10 million copies.
Jay’s verse on Jail was good but it wasn’t CRAZY
Nas and miss Hill killed any track on this album idc and don’t @ me
Donda gets a 6/25 24% F
LOL it is utter TRASH, these clowns are surely on his payroll, no way that 2 or 3 people are going to say the “Album of Life” on the same day.
Of course they will say that shit because being a Kanye stan is the meme. Remember when internet nerds hail Lil B as Based God? It’s same. Thank you based god.
Album of THE Life. Haha!
Folks please get this guy some. He is in a very dark place in life.
Sad… very sad! This is not a hip hop or rap album.
Has some of that old Kanye feeling to it, but prob should have cut like 4-5 songs off. Not better than King disease 2 Imo. But good to see Ye found his groove again because he been making some bs for like the last 10 years.
Kanye gave us exactly what he showed he was giving and it’s more than a album it’s something to be witnessed. Truly a living breathing testament of his life and times right now. The influence to get so many people to collaborate in such a short span is incredible in itself. Kanye can carry the wold on his axis if he likes . He took the world and spinned it q few times . Take your time with this and don’t lose the point of true art on the first spin ???????
You cats act like homos. ….this album was trash smh….
Art is subjective and it seems your appreciation stems more from the fact he sells thousand dollar shoes and bow ties so he’s deemed a cultural icon but you are letting his perception precede the actual music. It’s a guy who can’t sing singing on a record with auto tune to try and make up for the fact he can’t sing. He can’t even flow anymore where he tries to rap he just slow talks. Beats are sleepy. I can see enjoying this if I was a die hard Christian who tried to also be cool listening to contemporary music but I’m not so I didnt
Puttin 4 much on this shit!!!!!
I did love the album.. Some of you need to take your “rap” hats off and just feel the vibes.
Has some decent joints on the record, but also some bad ones it’s kinda hit and miss
How can you objectively review an album with 27 tracks in one day?
Tell everyone in the comments this.
Easily. They’re all 3 and a half minute songs with few exceptions which is like 90 minutes to listen to in its entirety and there’s 1440 minutes in a day. Re-listening to albums that initially don’t please your senses creates its own internal bias where you start to like songs that ‘aren’t as bad’ as the others. But comparing spoiled milk to spoiled eggs and choosing the milk still doesn’t make either one pleasurable. If you got force fed those spoiled foods every day you might say you like the milk better and might even be grateful every time you got fed the milk but that’s called Stockholm syndrome.
How can you give an honest review? The first time I listened to King’s Disease I didn’t like it. I only like “10 Points.” The first time I listened to Westside Gunn’s “Flygod is an Awesome God 2” I didn’t like it. People hated Jay Elect album but I think it is a timeless classic.
Some brainless tweeters as usual. Unnecessary hype. 2/3 decent(not classic) tracks at most… Music is dead
The album is high art. Not my cup of tea, but technically brilliant. Hate the man all you like. He is a genius. Dude makes people line up to buy sold out ugly shoes at $400 a pop. He made a company worth 2B out of it. What has your hater ass done in the last few years? SMH
Not sure but what my hater ass hasn’t done was release a diseased auto tune infected pile of steaming gospel trash record like it was the 2nd coming of Jesus. In fact I’m fairly confident this album secured kanyes fate to never go to heaven and roam the earth for all eternity dressed like a homeless person ranting about his own genius that only people who get their world news from TMZ hype up
Why don’t you also show the negative reviews?
Stop capping we all know no one other than a handful or excited for this album.
Weak album. Trash.
You gotta give it up to my mans Kanye. He really is consistent of dropping garbage albums back to back to back.
Making garbage music is an art form that Kanye was perfected. Respect to that man. The Garbage Man.
Lets be real if this album had name of some lil235ybxy with exact same beats and lyrics no one would say this is great album. Yall are hyping this trash because Kanye is trend. This shit sounds like yeezus for vegans
Lots of Codeine rappers in this drug-infested album. Can’t hear most lyrics anyway coz of the autotune overuse. For a gospel album, WTF is the message here?
This is a disappointing album, I couldn’t wait for it to end. Only JAY ELECTRONICA’s verse was decent.
But on the positive, this is better than Eminem’s Revival.
Kanye is washed. #ArtetaOUT
Those must have been the same people that loved that last Carti album lol some people let the hype convince them trash isn’t trash. This was indeed garbage and Kanye’s fans need to stop letting him grift them.
Fucking milenials and their stupid memes. I listened to most of the album and I cant catch a vibe for shit. More than half of it aint even rap, its fucking singing. At one point I felt like I was in a wedding. Is this really what hip hop has turned into ? All these mixed pop/rap albums that try to touch every genre and reach every fan ? For every fan you gain on some experimental shit, you probably lost 5 fans who just wanted to hear some good hip hop free of pop influence. If Donda was this bad, Im sure the Drake album will be a fucking train wreck. If you a veteran rapper making a comeback you need to do some real shit like Kings Disease 2. This trendy shit aint working.
There’s no problem with pop music. Hiphop’s been being fed by other genres like pop, jazz, funk, etc. Also there are some really good pop rappers out there like Uncle L or Nelly who could mix styles without being cringy. The problem is Kanye wants to be pop without the rap thing but he doesn’t have the talent of Justin Timberlake or Celine Dion. So he dropped this wack shit and tries to make people believe this is hiphop. I think nobody thinks this is what hiphop sounds like who knows a bare minimum of music history.
Stop hyping his insanity. You stans are slowly destroying him.
Only a bisexual (insert race here) would be elated with this before they even heard it they’d have the album downloaded onto a memory stick stuck between their quivering butt cheeks … Shoutout to Khanye playing the idiots he hates most. Marketing genius!
kanye fronting besides his new album raises interesting questions.
Yeah, I guess life is incredibly dull and painfully repetitive for long stretches of time with the odd moments of fun, so yeah, Donda is the album of life I guess.
The people that call this rapper a genius are lost souls in life. Theres so much more than fashion and music. Clowns
This shit is wack and unlistenable like all his albums but 2. Overrated no boom bap corny trap new era fusion. Boring and nothing innovative about it.
Sorry. If you’re elated when you listen to this album… I mean, yes, taste is taste but I do feel like your life doesn’t have a lot of happy moments if you enjoy listening to Donda. I give up on Kanye after this. I gladly dwell in the past when it comes to his music.
What a heaping pile of garbage. It’s not genius to pay well over a dozen people to help you “write” four note shitty songs. This album is an insult to musicians. Fuck you Kanye.
Straight Garbage!! This ain’t even a hip hop album!!
This isnt even half the album “We’re All Alone In This Together” is and its probably twice as long. American Hip Hop would be dead if it wasn’t for Roc Marciano and Griselda… smh