Is Kanye West Setting Up an Album-Release Showdown With Drake?

Kanye West circus continued on Thursday night — with a new added attraction: Watch Ye set himself on fire!Yup, that’s right.

Kanye West is gearing up to release his latest album, Donda, and celebrated in a rather unusual way.The star, 44, hosted a listening party in Soldier Field, Chicago, to mark the release of his latest record this week. Among the unusual ways he celebrated the latest album was ex wife Kim Kardashian coming out on stage wearing a wedding dress.

Kim Kardashian has set tongues wagging after joining her ex-husband Kanye West onstage in a dramatic wedding dress and veil after the rapper set himself on fire.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorKanye West’s first “Donda” listening party in Atlanta last month was a simple event — as much as an album-listening party in a football stadium can be simple — featuring the rapper, clad in a mask, stomping around the stadium floor as his album played.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust a few weeks ago, industry sources were buzzing that the real reason Kanye West’s long-delayed “Donda” album has missed two scheduled drop dates this summer is because he’s looking for a release-date battle with Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy,” similar to his 2007 duel with 50 Cent.“Donda” was scheduled to be released after listening sessions at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium — first on July 23, then on August 6, and there’s another one at the massive,

Kim Kardashian, 40, is still showing support for Kanye West, 44, despite their pending divorce. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star shared a new Instagram photo of her car radio playing a bunch of mix test tracks from what appeared to be the rapper’s new album Donda, just two days after they were seen going to lunch together.

Kanye West has responded to Drake’s diss on the latter’s Trippie Redd collab ‘Betrayal’, calling him out in a group text between eight people – one of whom being Pusha T.The feud began on Friday (August 20) when Trippie dropped his fourth album, ‘Trip At Knight’, which featured the Drake collab as its third track.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA new lead singer is just about the most dramatic change a band can make — even if a main songwriter or instrumentalist leaves, the voice is usually the clearest link to what came before. Although George Clarke, cofounder and lead vocalist of long-running San Francisco avant-metal act Deafheaven, hasn’t gone anywhere, he’s changed up his style so dramatically for the band’s fifth studio album that it actually sounds like they have a different singer.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust weeks before their first-ever tour without drummer Charlie Watts kicks off, the Rolling Stones have announced the 40th anniversary, expanded deluxe editions of their classic 1981 album, “Tattoo You.” The newly remastered set, out on October 22, and available in a variety of formats, will be accompanied by nine previously unreleased studio tracks from the era and a live concert from 1982; the full tracklists can be found below.The first of these, “Living in the

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMore than four years after the release of his blockbuster album “-,” Ed Sheeran has announced that his long-awaited fourth full-length album, called “=,” naturally enough, will be out on October 29.“‘=’ (Equals) is a really personal record and one that means a lot to me,” he said in the announcement. “My life changed greatly over the past few years – I got married, became a father, experienced loss, and I reflect on these topics over the course of the album.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorKanye West will hold a third public listening session for his still-unreleased “Donda” album at the 60,000-plus-capacity Soldier Field stadium in his hometown of Chicago on Thursday, August 26 at 10 p.m. ET/ 9 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorYoung veterans are nothing new in the music biz, but it still feels odd that Jade Bird is just 23: Her label, Glassnote, began showcasing her five years ago and she soon followed with an EP and, in 2019, a solid debut album.

Kanye West is moving into another stadium to finish work on ‘DONDA’, one of the rapper’s close collaborators has claimed.The rapper moved into Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium to finish work on the record earlier this month, and has since held two listening events at the massive facility.But as fans continue to await the record’s arrival, it’s believed that Kanye is now upping sticks to yet another stadium.The information comes from a since-deleted tweet by rising star KayCyy, a close associate

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorKanye West has apparently removed a remix of his song “Nah Nah Nah” featuring DaBaby from streaming services. The remix, which was released last year and also featured 2Chainz, was disappeared from Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal over the weekend and was first reported by HotNewHipHop.DaBaby is entering a third week of negative reaction to homophobic comments he made onstage at the Rolling Loud Miami festival on the weekend of July 23.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter unveiling it during a performance at Boston’s Fenway Park on Tuesday, Guns N’ Roses have released “Absurd,” their first official new song since their 2008 album “Chinese Democracy.”However, to call the song “new” is a relative term: The song, formerly called “Silkworms,” has been knocking around for two decades and was reportedly written during the years of sessions for “Chinese Democracy.”The fast-paced track features Axl Rose singing with an almost comical

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMost fans have a favorite Beatle, but there’s not much debate about which Beatles solo album is the best: George Harrison’s epic “All Things Must Pass.”Released in November 1970, just seven months after the group’s breakup was belatedly confirmed, it has become synonymous with the concept of suppressed brilliance.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the wee hours of Thursday, Apple Music launched a livestream via an in-app takeover before Kanye West’s second livestream of his delayed new album, “Donda,” again at Mercedes Stadium in Atlanta.Two weeks ago, West — who has held similar listening events for his last two official albums — held a similar livestreamed session in the stadium ahead of the album’s originally planned release date of July 23.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSay and think what you will about Kanye West — about his ego and politics and mental health and indefensible public statements and all the rest of it — but he actually is a musical genius, at least by the contemporary definition of the term.As a songwriter, lyricist and rapper, he’s excellent — but as a producer and conceptualist and creator of exciting and emotionally moving music (in both positive and negative ways), he’s brilliant.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter days of unconfirmed reports that Kanye West’s new album “Donda” — which was first announced in 2019, then shelved, then suddenly revived last week, then bumped again — will be released on August 6 th, although as with all things Kanye, that date is a moving target.West held a listening session for the album in Las Vegas on July 17, then announced another, larger one at Atlanta’s Mercedes Benz Arena for Thursday, to be followed by the album’s release that

 Kim Kardashian put her divorce aside to support her estranged husband,  Kanye West, at his album listening event in Atlanta on Thursday night. Khloé Kardashian was right by her older sister’s side as they brought KimYe’s kids to see their dad at the Mercedes Benz Stadium on June 22, which he sold out just to play some seemingly-unfinished tracks from his new album, Donda.