Kanye West Explains Why Kid Cudi Isn't on 'Donda 2,' Kid Cudi Then Calls Out His 'Lie'

Kanye West has updated his bespoke Stem Player platform to add 12 new songs to ‘Donda 2’, bringing it up to a current total of 16 tracks. Find the full, updated tracklist below.The album – West’s 11th, and a direct follow-up to last year’s ‘Donda’ – is available exclusively via the platform, unique to the $200 (£150) device made by the rapper’s Yeezy Tech enterprise. Four songs from the record – ‘Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Broken Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’ – were made available to Stem Player owners on Wednesday (February 23), following a listening party and live performance in Miami the night prior.Among the 12 new songs added overnight are the previously-released ‘City Of Gods’ (featuring Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys) and the Soulja Boy-assisted ‘First Time In A Long Time’. There are also two songs sporting guest spots from the late XXXTentacion (opener ‘True Love’ and ‘Selfish’) and a further two songs featuring ‘Pablo’ collaborator Future (‘Happy’ and ‘Keep It Burning’).

Kanye «Ye» West sampled a portion of ex Kim Kardashian's monologue during his listening event at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday. «I married the best rapper of all time. Not only that, he's the richest Black man in America,» Kim says in the sampled monologue from last October.

Kanye «Ye» West might not be a fan of all of Kim Kardashian's monologue, but he did sample a portion of it on Tuesday night for his listening event in Miami at the LoanDepot Park. At one point, his famous ex is heard declaring, «I married the best rapper of all time. Not only that, he's the richest Black man in America.

Kanye West is gearing up for the release of his new album, Donda 2--but not everyone will be able to hear it.On Thursday, February 17, the musician announced that the sequel to his 2021 album Donda will be releasing exclusively on his own Stem Player device, which costs $200. That means fans who use Apple Music, Tidal, or Spotify are out of luck, unless they purchase (or have already purchased) Ye’s device.He broke the news on Instagram, writing in his caption, “Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube.”“Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes,” the rapper explained.

Kanye West took a break from talking about Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson to give fans an update about his highly-anticipated new album Donda 2 on Feb. 17. “Donda 2 will only be streaming on my own platform, the Stem Player,” Kanye wrote on Instagram. “You can download new music from StemPlayer.com. You can play four different elements of the track: vocals, drums, bass and music. It also has a MP3 player available. We currently have 67,000 available and are making 3,000 a day.”

Kanye West has seemingly extended an olive branch to Kid Cudi.The since-deleted Instagram post seen by Complex, which was a screenshot of a message from Cudi in which he asked for help to “keep my mind sane” amid the tension over SNL host Pete Davidson, Ye showed support by writing “Love you family” above. It’s not clear why the rapper has now removed it.Last week, Ye said his collaborator (whom he released a 2018 album with under Kids See Ghosts) would not appear on ‘Donda 2’ due to his friendship Davidson, who is dating his estranged wife Kim Kardashian.West posted a handwritten note to Instagram last Saturday (February 12), sharing the news with his fans.

Netflix Wednesday. The hip-hop star breaks down his mental-health struggles since the 2007 death of his beloved mother Donda West in “Act III: Awakening” — the third episode of the three-part documentary, which will begin streaming on March 2.

Kanye West, and his phone might be hot after spending the past couple of days taking shots at Pete Davidson on Instagram. The rapper, who legally changed his name to Ye, began a tirade against the comedian for dating his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian.

Kanye West enjoyed a night out with his two oldest kids, North West, 8, and Saint West, 6, at the Super Bowl on Feb. 13. The rapper attended the star-studded football game with North and Saint by his side. Kanye and the kids right off the sidelines, and he took to Instagram Live before the game started to share a video of the children in their seats. They were also with Tyga and some other friends at the game.

Kanye “Ye” West started his Sunday by taking jabs at Pete Davidson and his pal, Machine Gun Kelly. The «Donda» rapper shared a series of posts on his Instagram, dedicated to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s new beau.

Kanye West is once again speaking out.

Kanye West, 44, threw some shade at ex  Kim Kardashian, 41, and her new beau Pete Davidson, 28. The Yeezy designer posted a mock version of the Captain America: Civil War movie poster that featured two sides, just like the Avengers: on ‘Ye’s team, Drake, his new girlfriend Julia Fox, Travis Scott and Future were included. On the opposite? Pete, along with Kim, Kid Cudi, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift.

The drama continues. Hours after Kanye West dissed Kid Cudi, confirming his absence on the production of Donda 2, the fashion designer has doubled down on his stance.

Kanye West has announced details of a new listening party in Miami for his forthcoming new album ‘DONDA 2’ on the album’s prospective release date.Earlier this week (February 9), it was reported that West, who is now legally known as Ye, had held a private listening party for the ‘DONDA’ sequel in Los Angeles. The likes of Drake, Travis Scott and Yung Lean were also said to have been in attendance on the night, with Ye sharing an image overnight taken by Samuel Alemayhu which showed him with the three aforementioned artists and Baby Keem.Taking to Instagram last night (February 12), West shared a photo of a house on stilts wreathed in flames, seemingly related to the structure resembling the house he grew up in that he built inside Chicago’s Soldier Field stadium ahead of his planned ‘DONDA’ listening party last summer, while he also set himself ablaze in a recent music video.According to the post, the ‘DONDA 2’ listening party will take place at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida on February 22 (2/2/22), the prospective release date for the new album.

Kanye West has shared another message directed at Kid Cudi over the rapper’s friendship with Kim Kardashian’s new boyfriend Pete Davidson.Over the weekend, West, who is now legally known as Ye, posted a since-deleted letter saying that Cudi will not appear on new album ‘DONDA 2’ over his friendship with the SNL comedian.In the handwritten note shared to Instagram yesterday (February 12), he told fans: “Just so everyone knows Cudi will not be on Donda because he’s friends with you know who.” “You know who” appears to refer to Davidson, who is in a relationship with West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.In a further Instagram post, West has re-shared a photo of himself, Cudi, Davidson and actor Timothée Chalamet at a 2019 dinner party, but Davidson’s face is crossed out.In the caption, he wrote: “I JUST WANTED MY FRIEND TO HAVE MY BACK THE KNIFE JUST GOES IN DEEPER.”See the post below:A post shared by ye (@kanyewest)Overnight, West has shared a number of other posts on Instagram, including a mock movie poster for Marvel Civil War, with the characters changed to include himself, Davidson, ex-wife Kardashian, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Drake and more.A post shared by ye (@kanyewest)In another post, West shared a photo of Cudi and Davidson next to one of himself, Drake and Rap-A-Lot Records founder J Prince who organised Kanye and Drake’s famous ‘Free Larry Hoover’ benefit concert which ended their beef. The caption of the Instagram post asked: ‘Who will win?’.”A post shared by ye (@kanyewest)Cudi responded to West’s original message on Twitter, saying the pair had “talked weeks ago about this”.

Kanye West has found himself in another online dispute, this time with rapper Kid Cudi.

Another Instagram feud. Kanye West took to social media again to inform followers that Kid Cudi won’t appear on his next album, Donda 2.