![]() This very magazine prompted West to call in The Weeknd, a titanic Verzuz win inspired him to fly in the red-hot LOX, and every song that sounded promising on original-recipe Donda was sharpened and refined with blockbuster effects. ![]() (Though as we now know, its release is probably mired in the latest flare-up in West's eternal pissing match with Drake.)ĭonda, version 2 retained the highlights of Donda v1-a Jay-Z reunion, sterling features from Roddy Ricch, Playboi Carti and Lil Baby, and some of the best Ye tracks we've heard in years-and expanded on them with one brilliant new addition after another. But it was a pleasant shock when West returned from his self-imposed two-week cram session with an album that sounded pretty damn close to finished. So it was no surprise that the initial July 23 iteration of Donda sounded closer to rough demos than a mastered album. And judging from the version of Donda that West played last night at Soldier Field, he's on the verge of fucking up a lot of the colors.įor his last four albums, West has been testing fans' patience with his propensity to delay, tweak, release, then tweak some more. Last night, West held a third stadium listening session for the album (his fourth overall, counting a July event in Las Vegas that wasn't streamed), this time in Chicago's Soldier Field following back-to-back takeovers of Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium. ![]() Jay-Z once famously compared his discography to a Rubik's Cube, explaining: “Every album's a color, but I fuck up the other color.” It's a legacy balancing act that any artist can relate to, but no one is embodying it right now more than Jay's “little brother" Kanye West, who has spent half of the summer publicly tinkering with his tenth studio album Donda.
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