Veteran producer Mike Dean has been at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta attempting to finish Kanye West’s long delayed Donda album. But on Sunday (August 15), several erroneous reports began to circulate suggesting he’d quit over a “toxic environment.”
According to Dean, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Speaking to HipHopDX, he said frankly, “I haven’t quit. The fans are toxic and asking me too much stuff I have no control over.” He doubled down in a tweet with, “I haven’t quit anything. The album continues. LOL. People read too much into tweets. LOL.”
He later added via Twitter, “I mean toxic fans asking questions u moron writers. Jesus. People take [shit] out of context. LOL. Bye.”
The rumor started after Dean tweeted “Fuck it” and “good to be at the house” on Saturday afternoon (August 14). Eventually a thread was started about how Dean needed to be treated better and he wrote, “Toxic. That’s it.” People automatically assumed he was talking about his working relationship with Kanye West and ran with it.
But as Dean clarified further, “It’s good not to be breathing toxic stadium air and to be in sunny la for a while. Mexico soon!” He added with a healthy dose of sarcasm, “The sky is falling. Let’s see if that makes a headline. ##. The ocean is dying.”
In addition to working on Donda, Dean is preparing for two sold-out shows in Los Angeles on August 22 and 23 where fans will get to see the “Synth God Live.” The cannabis connoisseur’s most recent solo album, 4:22, appropriately arrived on April 20.
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The hype is turning into a disappointment, Nas just dropped a Gem. Ye is going to need that Jay Z guest appearance to Live up to all the Talk and delays let’s face it
LOL I’m hip LOL
I’m a tool
People all up in people’s business us what’s toxic
Hate to say it but ye sonically is pure gimmicks. Clothing pays way more so it makes sense where his heart is
Donda hype died
Don’t see why you’d want to finish the record living in some spare room in a stadium when you could be in any fully equipped studio or even hotel suite with a couple red boxes laptops and monitors. Either way sounds better than now. Kanye just seems lost like he can’t do what he really wants so he’s trying to come up with some clever way to do what he wants without anyone realizing. He should be thinking about dropping a dope 40-45 minutes of music 10-14 songs and call it a wrap
I agree it’s like just drop the shit already people are really losing interest. Its an album not a movie. Problem is Kanye outsmarted himself while staying in a tiny room in a stadium. The whole listening party is a huge waste of money…hes not performing and he cant dance. It’s like people spent a ton of money to watch a chubby dude feel his own songs. Only in America smh
But Donna was the biggest ratchet of all time…problem is kimye too into himself his ego got hurt when he found out Kim slept with half the industry and he was ridiculed because his breath smells like Ray J genitals…this egotisticall, narcissistic arrogant egomaniac doeant know how to handle it so he named his album after his ratchet mother and tried to produce a masterpiece but the result is like his clothing which looks like homeless wear
Don’t matter, the album sucks. Should have hired Dr.Dre or Scott Storch for this project. This is why music artists and athletics must stop dating the Kardashians, everything goes to ? afterward. #Dunga