Kanye West’s ‘DONDA’ reportedly pushed again to subsequent month
Kanye West‘s a lot anticipated new album, ‘DONDA’, will now reportedly arrive subsequent month, in keeping with web character Justin Laboy.
Claims of West’s new album being near launch first got here from Laboy, who mentioned that the rapper performed the album for each him and NBA basketball participant Kevin Durant final weekend.
On Wednesday (July 21), Ye previewed ‘No Baby Left Behind’, a brand new track from the file, in a Beats by Dre commercial starring US athlete Sha’Carri Richardson throughout Sport 6 of the NBA finals.
The ‘Jesus Walks’ rapper and producer then hosted a listening occasion in Atlanta on Thursday evening (July 22) for followers to get a style of what they’re in for. The occasion – held at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium – was live-streamed globally through Apple Music.
A press launch initially said that ‘DONDA’ can be launched on Friday (July 23) through G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings, however in true Kanye trend, the album has but to materialise.
Now, it appears to be like like ‘DONDA’ can be arriving on August 6, in keeping with Laboy, who took to Twitter within the early hours of this morning to share an replace with followers.
“KANYE WEST WILL MOVE THE RELEASE DATE OF DONDA TO AUGUST 6TH,” he wrote. “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 #DONDA #RESPECTFULLY”
KANYE WEST WILL MOVE THE RELEASE DATE OF DONDA TO AUGUST 6TH. 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 ?? #DONDA #RESPECTFULLY
— Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) July 24, 2021
West is but to touch upon the discharge date himself. NME has reached out to representatives for West for remark.
There’s no official info across the titles of the songs on ‘DONDA’, although West did beforehand share a partial tracklist for the album on Instagram earlier this week, with titles similar to ‘We Made It’, ‘Moon’, ‘Pure Souls’ and extra.
A stack of rumoured options had been confirmed all through Thursday evening’s Atlanta listening occasion, with probably the most talked about being JAY-Z, who options on what seems to be the album’s last track – marking the primary time the 2 have collaborated on a track since Drake‘s 2016 observe ‘Pop Model’.
In the meantime, town of Atlanta has formally declared July 22 to be Kanye West Day.