Promises of a new Kanye West album were completely shattered on Thursday (July 22) when Donda failed to arrive on DSPs at the magical hour of 9 p.m. PST. But those familiar with the G.O.O.D. Music founder’s rollouts weren’t surprised — while those who weren’t got a rude awakening.
Now, it looks like Ye fans will have to wait even longer to get their hands on the project.
On Friday (July 23), former Apple Music Curator Dylan Farella fired off a tweet suggesting it would arrive on Saturday (July 24).
“#DONDA been in production all day,” he wrote. “Finishing up mixing right now. Soon to the DSPs. Should drop by midnight. Worth the wait.”
But as the hours ticked by, Farella’s subsequent tweets grew increasingly less confident.
“Remember the album drops on Kanye’s time and Kanye’s time alone,” he said roughly an hour later. “Unless this is your first rollout you know anything can happen. One tweet about Kanye and I’ve got a couple dozen death threats in like 30 mins. I’m waiting just as eagerly as everyone else but sheesh, y’all crazy.”
He added, “Nothing is ever confirmed. Not today. Not August 6th either.”
Farella is referring to an Instagram post from media personality and Demon Time creator Justin Laboy, the same person who claimed Donda was an instant “classic” shortly after attending a private listening party at a Las Vegas church last week.
“KANYE WEST WILL MOVE THE RELEASE DATE OF DONDA TO AUGUST 6TH,” he shared. “THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE. HE WANTS TO GIVE HIS FANS THE BEST POSSIBLE PRODUCT WITHOUT RUSHING ANYTHING. HE LOVES YALL WITH ALL OF HIS HEART. GOD BLESS.”
He wrote in the caption, “ALBUM OF THE YEAR WILL BE RELEASED ON AUGUST 6th. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE. TRUST ME IT’S GOING TO BE WORTH IT.”
In all fairness to Kanye’s fans, they’ve already waited over a year for Donda to arrive. Those who were able to tune in to Apple Music’s livestream event on Thursday night were able to at least get a taste of what to expect — lots of gospel-inspired organs and emotive choruses.
One of the biggest surprises arrived toward the end of the show when Kayne’s Watch The Throne collaborator JAY-Z popped up on one of the tracks. The two longtime friends had been embroiled in a cold war for years, which appears to now be a thing of the past.
Of Course Kanye West's 'Donda' Album Didn't Drop On Schedule
JAY-Z’s longtime engineer Young Guru confirmed in a tweet JAY-Z had come through in the eleventh hour to get his verse done with, “HOV did the verse today!!! At 4 pm.”
But like Farella pointed out, this is a Kanye album and “anything can happen.”
on 3 everyone: we…… don’t…. giva…. fck.
we know we ain’t getting classic kayne(first two albums) so ain’t nobody waiting in lines for this. this is something you checkout on clearance
Shit take.
For some who doesn’t give a fuck, you were the first to comment here. LOL. Confused much? I give a fuck. I’m trying to hear that album. Like the millions of people who will make it number 1 when it drops.
Millions? Whoa calm down there buddy you mean hundreds of thousands and that’s a huge difference. There’s nothing wrong with being a dedicated fan so I won’t speak negatively on that at all… But to the general consumer, which includes myself, Kanye is well past his prime. He’s clearly off his rocker with these clothing designs he’s been putting out lately. 2001 called. Nas wants his outfit back from the hate me now video.
this dude LOL ‘fuck it I ain’t ready yet’ – Khanye
tbh all this rushed music is just an insult to the fans….at the end of the day if you refuse to put time and effort in it shows! People will gobble the music up because it’s Kanye….but won’t be long before people realise it’s two decent tracks and not much else. The heights of MBDTF will remain in the distant past
That was Kanye at his best. Unfortunately everything else is living off of that hype.
Who cares?
1st Donda is such a stupid name. 2nd the ratchet die getting plastic surgery. 3rd kimye is a drama queen attention seeking whooore so no one cares about this bipolar clown who used to get fisted by amber rose. American boy most annoying song
Wow…that’s his dead mother’s name.
Cmon Avery… this is obviously a troll of the worst type…
Hes clearly off his rocker and people keep acting like this guy is something special. Kinda makes you wonder about people in general.
I’ll trade my sanity for 2 billion dumb dumb. LOL. You’re a genius that’s worth $72. Please shut up.
This is exactly why Meek said CAP! You idiots tried to twist it like he was dissing him, y’all slow!
You listen to Meek Mill? Gross. That’s not something I would come out and be willingly telling other people about…. Ijs
Ye is a perfectionist – haven’t loved all his albums especially the quickie albums from a couple summers ago. At least the gospel album had a couple bangers on it. I’m sure once it drops there’ll be a few gems on board
From what I read, a bunch of collaborators were added at the last minute. If you know anything about the music industry, verses have to be cleared by artist’s respective tables. You can’t just add so and so right before it’s released and drop it. Kanye himself has said nothing, it’s all these hangers on that are making the hype what it is. Wish they would just shut up and let the music talk.
Hmm…. Can Kanye take out Tyler for Album of the Year honors? I’m putting my dollars on the Creator
Tyler’s album was horrible. Not too 10 of the year so far. I know his music justifies you being a weirdo, it still sucked.
It wouldn’t even take Kanye’s album….J Cole, Lloyd banks even Drake obviously will be better suitors. Sorry, never was a fan of Tyler the creators music
Ye stans fell for the hype again. Hope the 50 dollar chicken nuggets were worth it, lol!
So Kanye threw a party with himself standing in the spotlight with a face mask on LOL Kanye wants to be Michael Jackson so bad
It’s good he’s taking his time, his last good album was really Life of Pablo…anything since seems like it was put together maybe too quickly. The features on this album are good hopefully it’s worth the wait
you should be pay everyone including myself for comment two considering the dangers of it
Bipolar clown
Their trying to figure out when Drakes album drops so it doesn’t get overlooked. Everybody knows Drakes album going to do numbers whether it’s good or another monotone singing boring ass he bitch drowning in feelings type shit lmao. It’s sad though everyone knows Kanye has a better catalogue
Nobody cares. Kanye is overrated af. He’s doing all this extra work so people can illegally download his album. And can we talk about how he stole Nas’ outfit from the Hate me Now video? Except yay couldn’t quite pull it off because he doesn’t have Nas’ swag
With him building all that anticipation up it better be dope man i’m telling you, and i’m not gonna buy it blindly