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Kanye West Is Living At The Mercedez-Benz Stadium To Finish ‘Donda’ Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West’s album listening concert for Donda at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta did not disappoint as fans vibed from beginning to end with the controversial MAGA rapper. What did disappoint was the fact that the album did not drop the next day as promised. As a matter of fact, it didn’t drop the day after either. Nor the day after that. Finally word got out that Kanye was not only re-working some of the songs on the album, but that he even moved into the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to finish off his long awaited project. TMZ is reporting that after Kanye held the listening session at the MBS last week, he never left and remained in the building to put the finishing touches on Donda which is now slated to release on August 6...
Homecoming: Kanye West Premieres New Momma-Dedicated Album DONDA In His Birthplace, Can The Sinner Be Saved?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Last night (July 23), it seemed as if the entire city of Atlanta gathered at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to hear what Hip-Hop’s most polarizing character, Kanye West, has cooked up for his tenth solo studio album, DONDA. It goes without saying that general public sentiment toward Yeezy has been soured significantly after several years of incoherent rambling, his entrance into Kardashianville, his stating that “slavery is a choice” and his full-throated support of MAGA miscreant Donald Trump. None of that even takes into account the fact that the music Kanye has released during this tumultuous time period has been lackluster, to say the least. We’ve certainly seen more than one musician maintain their status as an elite artist despite the...
Gesaffelstein Produced a Song on Kanye West’s Upcoming “Donda” Album: Listen to a Preview
Gesaffelstein and Kanye West have officially reunited. The French electronic music virtuoso announced that he’s behind the production of a new single from West’s upcoming 10th studio album, Donda. The track is called “No Child Left Behind” and it’s due out this Friday, July 23rd along with the rest of the LP, according to announcement by Beats Electronics. Gesaffelstein confirmed the collab after it was featured in a Beats commercial aired during Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The ad features America’s fastest woman, Olympic track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, and was directed and edited by West. The hype surrounding Donda was briefly overshadowed by a legendary, championship-sealing performance by Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, but it’s now b...
MAGA Ye Gives Back: Kanye West Donating DONDA Listening Party Tickets to HBCUs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Ahead of the release of his highly anticipated new album, Kanye West is making sure that his fans at HBCUs will be able to tune in. The rapper/producer has been hard at work on Donda, his latest album which is now slated to be released this coming Friday (July 23rd). In his usual grandiose fashion, West is throwing a listening party at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia this Thursday (July 22nd) at 8 P.M. and he’s donated 5,000 of those tickets to faculty members, staff and students of area HBCUs Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, Morris Brown College and ITC. This event is the latest listening party for Donda, which was to have been released last year but was shelve...
Kanye West to Release Donda This Friday
Over a year after announcing that it was in the works, Kanye West will (finally) be releasing Donda this Friday, July 23. Though clips and rumblings have circulated since the weekend, now (and in addition to the listening event that will take place at Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta), it’s actually coming. Last year, West released a single titled “Wash Us in Blood” that featured Travis Scott. In a new 60-second Apple ad featuring sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, West previewed a new song from the upcoming collection titled “No Child Left Behind,” which you can check out below. [embedded content] West’s last proper album was 2019’s Jesus Is King. He also released Jesus Is Born and Emmanuel on back-to-back Christmases that featured the Sunday Service Choir. This is the 44-year-...
Sha’Carri Richardson Stars In Beats Studio Buds Spot, Kanye West’s New Track “No Child Left Behind” Featured
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Beats / Beats While the Tokyo Olympics continues to lose more big names by the minute, none was more disappointing than the ouster of track and field superstar, Sha’Carri Richardson. Although “America’s fastest woman” won’t get a shot at Olympic gold, she does star in a fantastic Beats Studio Buds commercial that features a new track from Kanye West. The track, “No Child Left Behind” will appear on West’s upcoming studio album, DONDA, which is getting quite the rollout treatment with listening parties cropping up throughout the United States. The album is set to debut this coming Friday (July 23) and the song backs Richardson sporting the recently released Beats Studio Pods in the spot. Source: Beats / Beats The commercial and track debuted during Game 6 ...
Kanye West Set To Perform ‘Donda’ At Rolling Loud Festival This Weekend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty For days it’s been rumored that Kanye West was preparing to drop his new album Donda any day now and after a listening session it seems like Yeezy is ready to unleash his latest project on the masses, live. In a now deleted tweet, Kanye’s day one, Consequence revealed that Mr. West was planning on performing the whole album at this weekend’s upcoming Rolling Loud festival in Miami. Posting what seems to be a sketch from Kanye himself showing the date and three pyramids, Con wrote “DONDA Experience Rolling Loud Miami, FL 07.25.21 Via KW Summer ’21.” This would mark Kanye’s first onstage appearance since 2019 when Kanye took his Sunday Service show to Coachella when he was out here getting right with the Lord and pledging his support to...
Kanye West and Irina Shayk Still Going Strong, Source Denies Break-Up Rumors
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Kanye West is still booed up and his alleged new significant other is reportedly not happy with the “lies” that they’re heading toward a split. According to TMZ, despite previous reports, Yeezy and model Irina Shayk are still together. Sources close to the couple tell the gossip site that the two are in fact still dating and have been for months. The source stated the pair recently spent the Fourth of July weekend together in San Francisco openly showing affection for one another while dining out together at the upscale restaurant, Mourad. Of the rumors that “they’re cooling off and she turned down his invitation to Paris,” the source explains to PEOPLE: “That’s just not true. Revealing Kanye went to Paris for the Balenciaga sh...
Kanye West Holding ‘Donda’ Listening Session In Atlanta, Album Cover Revealed
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Kanye West’s new album, Donda, is officially on the way. Yeezy is holding a listening session for the new project in Atlanta this week at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The venue certainly seems to be big enough for an artist of Yeezy’s magnitude, and the Kanye West Presents: Donda Listening Event will go down Thursday, July 22 at 8PM ET. The event is ticketed and they went on sale today (July 19), at 5:00PM EST at Ticketmaster.com. Originally tickets were on sale for $20 and $50 but at the time of this post they going for slightly higher thanks to resellers. Over the weekend, Kanye West held a listening session in Las Vegas for the project and also held a private listening session for host Justin Laboy and NBA superstar Kevin Dura...
Baron Negro: Kanye West Hits Big 3 Game Dressed Like Baron Zemo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Maybe Kanye West is a big fan of MCU villains? We say this because Yeezy was at the Big 3 Tournament in Las Vegas on Saturday (July 17) and was spotted courtside dressed like Baron Zemo. Source: Marvel / Disney+ There was Mr. West next to Big 3 head honcho Ice Cube wearing an outfit that featured a mask that also could pass for Cobra Commander couture and what looks like a pair of those Yeezy Supply boots. There is where we point out that Vegas is in the desert, so it’s pretty much always hot outside. That didn’t stop Yeezy from donning winter-ready looking drip at the Orleans Arena to take in a game, though. Cube being comfortable in a t-shirt was a sharp contrast to West keeping on the black version of the Round Jacket that’s part o...
Kanye West Got Friend Zoned By Model Irina Shayk, Source Says
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WENN.com / WENN Kanye West is going through a divorce so it wasn’t much of a surprise when he was reportedly already on the prowl, linking with a Russian supermodel. However, Irina Shayk has allegedly already relegated Yeezy to the friend zone. Let’s be wary of the source, Page Six, which is part of the New York Post, and does the most to put stars of color in a bad light. But word is that Shayk curved West’s invitation to go with him to the Balenciaga Fall 2021 Couture show in Paris last week. “She likes him as a friend, but doesn’t want a relationship with him,” a source told Page Six, noting Shayk didn’t want to be featured in any headlines. That or, she was into kicking it with a dude rocking a full face mask out in public—or wearing adidas sneakers w...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Sam i
Artist/Name: Sam i Best known for: Producing for artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kanye West, Lizzo, Doja Cat, etc… My artist projects NASA and Sam i, my film score work for Bad Grandpa, Jackass, etc., my directing on projects like Wu-Tang in Space and my company Squeak E. Clean. Current city: Los Angeles Really want to be in: Tokyo for Sakura bloom, wandering around the city, and eating bomb ramen. Excited about: I have a new song out called “Shake” that’s a bop… By the time this comes out, the Breakbot Remix will be out. My current music collection has a lot of: I’d like to change this to “My current music playlist has a lot of: Music from the ’50s. And a little bit of: Music from 2021. Don’t judge me for: Still loving club music, despite how corny the scene has become. Vinyl/CD/Streaming/S...
