Donda 2

Ye said his new album 'Donda 2' will only be available on his own platform, the $200 Stem Player.

But what will likely happen here, is that die hard fans with expendable money will buy Ye's Stem Player, while the rest will likely download it illegally. Take Neil Young, who left Spotify in protest of their continued support of infamous meathead Joe Rogan. But is forcing all fans to pay such a hefty price for his Stem Player to even listen to his album truly the answer? There's even a Discord forum for the device, with more than 11,000 users online at the time of this writing.

Kanye West, or Ye, debuted 'Donda 2' in Miami on February 22 with appearances by a number of featured artists and new songs that seem to reference Kim ...

Migos appeared during their feature, while Pusha T dropped by to rep his new song, “Diet Coke.” Harlow appeared for his song after teasing on Twitter that it “should be an interesting night.” In another reference of the Chicago event, Manson and DaBaby appeared during the Donda song “Jail.” (Though press photos show that his children were apparently present at the Miami event.) He goes on to apparently threaten Davidson, rapping, “Y’all ain’t got enough security for this” — a seeming reference to reports that Davidson upped his own security after Ye released “Eazy.” Another song, “Flowers,” referenced a text Davidson sent Ye about not wanting to “get [in the] way of” his children with Kim, which the rapper posted on Instagram. “He not a threat, send him a text, put him on time-out,” Ye raps on the song. (“Eazy” had previously been released as a Spotify exclusive for its first 24 hours.) As of Wednesday, Ye had uploaded four songs: “Security,” “Pablo,” “Broken Road,” and “We Did It Kid.” Unless we’re meant to believe that’s the full album, it looks like this thing is far from done-da. The producer Digital Nas told Rolling Stone that Manson had been in the studio with Ye “every day.” (He also said Ye was working with “some producers from Yeezus” and “a bunch of producers from Donda 1.”) A representative for Manson later told Newsweek he “is continuing his creative collaboration with Ye.” Cudi featured on Donda’s “Moon” along with a number of other Ye projects including Kids See Ghosts. Days before the album’s debut, Ye said in a handwritten Instagram post that Cudi would not be on the project “because he’s friends with you know who.” “You know who” would be Pete Davidson, the current boyfriend of Ye’s ex Kim Kardashian West, whom he previously called out on “Eazy” (“God saved me from that crash / Just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass”). Cudi replied to Ye’s since-deleted Instagram, saying he didn’t want to be on the album and calling the rapper a “fuckin dinosaur.” He later tweeted, “You’re whack for flipping the script and posting this lie just for a look on the internet. The February 22 event gave a better idea of who to expect on Donda 2. (He called it the rapper’s “new masterpiece.”) Ye released the song “Eazy,” featuring the Game — and scarred our eyes with that cover art — on January 15 before confirming news of Donda 2 in an Instagram post January 27. Donda 2 — or at least what we’ve heard so far — doubles as the latest installment in Ye’s extremely public, increasingly messy divorce from Kardashian West. On one new song, “Security,” Ye raps, “Never take the family picture off the fridge / Never stand between a man and his kids,” presumably in reference to his claims that she’s keeping him from seeing their children. One big name not involved with this round of Donda is Kid Cudi, whom Ye had a falling out with in the lead-up to the release. Ye has already moved on from the Grammy-nominated Donda, which he debuted in July 2021 and finally gave a formal release in late August before announcing the Stem player in October and a deluxe version of the record in November. From there, he seems to have gone straight to work on the sequel. The news came shortly after Ye joined the Atlanta rapper for an appearance during his Rolling Loud California set in December. Soon after, Rolling Stone reported that Ye was continuing his controversial collaboration with Marilyn Manson, who has a number of sexual-assault and abuse allegations against him. In grand Donda tradition, Ye debuted a number of songs presumably from Donda 2 in front of an audience at Miami’s LoanDepot Park on Tuesday night.