As Kanye West preps his forthcoming album God’s Country, the eccentric rapper is back with what appears to be another teaser, this time for the song “Donda.” On Sunday (June 12) — what would’ve been Donda West’s 71st birthday — Kanye shared a snippet of the new song with his 29.7 million Twitter followers.
The brief soundbite features Ye’s late mother reciting several lines from the KRS-One classic “Sound of Da Police.”
He wrote in the caption, “In loving memory of my incredible mother on her birthday. My mom reciting KRS1 lyrics This song is called DONDA.”
Visually, the nearly 2:20-minute clip shows several different images — from a young Black boy herding steer to a baptismal ceremony in a river.
But toward the end, home video of Ye and his mother start to pepper the visual as he raps, “Mama, I need you to tuck me in/I done made some mistakes and they rubbed it in/(Boy!) I know you and grandma had enough of them … I’m doing this one for y’all/So we can end racism once and for all.”
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“Donda” follows the video for “Wash Us In The Blood” featuring Travis Scott and likely serves as the second single from God’s Country, Ye’s 11th studio album. Kanye has addressed his mother’s death in his music before. In 2014, he teamed up with Paul McCartney for the song “Only One,” which was dedicated to his daughter North but written as if Donda is speaking to her.
Donda passed away in Marina del Rey, California after suffering a heart attack on November 10, 2007, only one day after she had undergone a cosmetic procedure.
This is the closest we’ve gotten to Old Kanye in a while
cause they tryna sign a calmye not a kanye. lmfao
Got to love the creative genius vibes and sentimental feels on the track. Yeezy’s cracked it again!
The gaslighting is just abusive now. Trump and Kanye Openly Admit they hope Kanye re elect Trump by taking votes off Biden. And he releases a typically lazy song, not sampling a word or sentence but almost half an entire song, pretending he want to stop Police brutality? Yet his fuhrer says Defund police is evil and a threat to democracy? And Trump has full backing of white supremacists police unions who block any and all accountability, and defend murderers? And police on mass strikes, ignored by MSM, tryna make crime surge so Trump can blame crime on BLM and crackdown, murder more? And lynchings increasing? Kanye and Kendrick are beyond sunken place. They r pure satanic
what the fuck does kendrick have to do with Kanye west running for president or releasing sub par music? FOH.
I like it! Memories of Kanye making music at an easier time on the come up.
Aint been right since her passing
KANYE WEST KING
You know what krs is a genius I never knew how lyrical that song is
Trump has endorsed ye. Police unions endorse Trump who endorses ye. Voting ye helps Trump get re-elected. Therefore, sampling an anti police song is worse than hypocritical. It’s gaslighting. Psy-Ops. To Demoralize, distract, discredit the movement against police brutality. Chance& ye are white supremacists
Do you act and talk the same way you did when you were12 years old??
Please cut it out.
No artist that continues to grow will ever sound like their first album.
You live and grow!
Agree. But – I’m 37 now, and I do once or twice a year act like I did when I was 18-21 (maybe more). It’s alright to throw it back once or twice a year! But yes you are right. Growth is inevitable in music or any art. Cool AF though when nostalgia bursts through.