Kanye West’s Donda 2 tops the (piracy) charts

Kim Kardashian, 41, called out Kanye West, 44, as a liar when he made an Instagram post claiming that she had kept the rapper from seeing their four kids. Kanye had shared a photo of some pins on his 8-year-old daughter North‘s backpack and said that he took the picture a week prior and hadn’t been allowed to see his kids. Kim shut down the rapper’s claims by saying she’d seen him that morning on Monday March 14.

Kanye West‘s album, ‘DONDA‘, has been certified platinum by the RIAA, with over one million equivalent album sales since its release in August 2021.Ye’s album was released last year after multiple delays and several changes to the album itself. The progress of the album was charted through several listening parties, where West would make changes to it following each one.In a three-star review, NME described ‘DONDA’ as “incredibly – and unnecessarily – long”.

Corey Taylor has called Kanye West a “fucking moron” over the rapper’s decision to make ‘DONDA 2’ available exclusively through his Stem Player.Released last month, West’s 11th studio album – a direct follow-up to last year’s ‘DONDA’ – can currently only be accessed via his $200 (£150) device, which was created by the star’s Yeezy Tech enterprise.Four tracks from the record were made available to Stem Player owners on February 23 following a listening party and live performance in Miami the night before. An additional four songs arrived the next day, with a further 12 cuts landing on February 25.During a recent interview with Metro.co.uk, Slipknot frontman Taylor suggested that West’s method of putting out ‘DONDA 2’ was out of touch with his audience.“It’s like releasing all the parts for a car and sending them to people’s houses and going there, you got a free car, now you’ve got to figure out how to build the goddamn thing,” Taylor told the outlet.“You’re assuming that the audience has the access and same technology that you have but you’re a fucking moron for doing that.

Kanye West’s new album, ‘DONDA 2’ has been ruled ineligible for inclusion in the Billboard charts.As West, who is now officially known as ‘ye’, decided to sell his album exclusively via his Stem Player device, it violates Billboard’s merchandise bundle policy. As per an article in Billboard, albums sold with merchandise are ineligible for inclusion.The album – West’s 11th, and a direct follow-up to last year’s ‘Donda’ – is only available exclusively via the platform and 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.

Kanye West has shared the reason why he threw microphone down during a performance of ‘Jail pt 2’ at his ‘Donda 2’ event in Miami.Discussing the incident during an Instagram-shared exchange with Sasha A. Berg and Esther Coco Berg on Wednesday (March 2), West, who is now legally known as Ye, said his frustrations boiled over because of a request made by a promoter.He claims that he was “told” he had to attach the word “performance” to the ‘Donda 2’ event, despite that not being a part of his vision.“It wasn’t about the sound,” Ye explained.

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’).

Good news for anyone sitting around with a weird circular MP3 player in their hand waiting for Kanye’s new album to pop up on it: he’s released… some of it. Four tracks from West’s ‘Donda 2’ album emerged yesterday for owners of his Stem Player device.‘Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Open Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’ – all of which were previewed at West’s live launch event in Miami earlier this week – are now available to download on the $200 Stem Player devices to listen to and remix to your heart’s content.West announced the arrival of the four tracks in a since-deleted tweet last night.

Kanye West has shared four tracks from ‘Donda 2’ via his own Stem Player.The rapper and producer, now legally known as Ye, has uploaded four tracks – ‘Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Open Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’.Writing in a tweet which has since been deleted, West wrote: “Thank you producers, first four Donda 2 tracks live, Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Open Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’.”He gave no indication as to when any further tracks will be released from the record.THANK YOU PRODUCERSFIRST FOUR DONDA 2 TRACKS LIVESECURITY, PABLO, OPEN ROAD, WE DID IT KIDGO TO https://t.co/81me2iWKLsCONNECT YOUR STEMPLAYERCLICK GET DONDA 2STAND BY FOR MORE pic.twitter.com/URMvdGtaCQ— STEM PLAYER (@stemplayer) February 23, 2022It comes after West held a listening party for his forthcoming new album and a live event in Miami, last night.Fans were played around 45 minutes of music, including both previously-unreleased tracks such as ‘Flowers’ and recent collaborations like ‘Eazy’ with The Game along with Pusha T‘s latest single ‘Diet Coke’, with Pusha appearing onstage alongside Ye as it played.Other unreleased tracks West played featured the likes of Migos and Jack Harlow, both of whom also appeared beside Ye as their respective contributions played.Following an appearance from Ye’s Sunday Service Choir, the event moved to a live performance, with the him performing multiple songs from ‘Donda’ – including ‘Hurricane’, ‘Off the Grid’ (featuring Fivio Foreign and Playboy Carti) and ‘Jail 2’.For the latter, Ye was joined by the track’s controversial featured artists: Marilyn Manson, who is facing multiple allegations and lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault, which he has denied, and DaBaby, who faced backlash last year after making homophobic comments

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.

Welcome to 23 Feb 2022, the day after the first scheduled release date for Kanye West’s ‘Donda 2’ album. I say “first” because – of course, obviously, and I apologise for stating the fucking obvious – ‘Donda 2’ did not come out yesterday.

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.

Rapper Kanye West included audio from Kamala Harris in his latest performance, in an apparent attempt to mock the vice president as she and President Biden face low approval ratings amid high inflation, a border crisis, a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and the current Ukraine crisis. Harris's voice was heard in West's Donda 2 experience Tuesday night in Miami. "We did it, we did it, Joe," ran the voiceover, as dancers in black marched in a circle through water around West and a church.  The audio comes from a video Harris posted on Twitter on Nov.

Kanye West is holding a live performance at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida.The rapper, now legally known as Ye, announced the performance earlier this month with an image on social media that showed a house on stilts, engulfed in flames. The structure resembled the rapper’s childhood home, a recreation of which heavily featured during his third and final listening party for the original ‘Donda’ last year at Chicago’s Soldier Field stadium.Per a press release, the ‘Donda Experience’ event will feature a combination of music, art and fashion, with performances and “additional special guests”.

Since announcing that his new album ‘Donda 2’ will only be available via his own Stem Player, Kanye West reckons that he’s sold more than $2 million worth of the devices.Initially that sounds like quite a lot of money. Though that’s equates to sales of around 8000 devices.

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 appeared to reveal the tracklist for his forthcoming new album ‘DONDA 2’.The rapper and producer, who is now legally known as Ye, is readying the sequel LP to 2021’s ‘DONDA’ for release on Tuesday (February 22). Future is said to be executively producing the record, while Marilyn Manson has also been working on the album.After announcing overnight that ‘DONDA 2’ will only be available on his Stem Player device, West has now shared what appears to be the tracklist for the record.Song titles include ‘Security’, ‘Life Me Up’, ‘Broken Road’, ‘Sci Fi’, ‘530’ and ‘Closed For Business’ – you can see the handwritten tracklist in the below Instagram post, which West captioned “like we always do at this time” in reference to his 2007 single ‘Good Life’.A post shared by ye (@kanyewest)After confirming that ‘DONDA 2’ wouldn’t be available on the major streaming platforms, West wrote on Instagram that “for the first time in a long time, I feel alive”.He also said that his fans should acquire the Stem Player “to be a part of the revolution”.“I feel that same feeling like when I first moved to New York to make it in music,” he continued. “I ain’t know what was gonna happen but I knew had to move.

Kanye West has said that his upcoming album Donda 2 will only be available to listen to via his Stem Player device.