Kanye West Says New Album DONDA Is Out This Week
After tweeting and deleting a 20-song tracklist on Saturday, Kanye West tweeted a new tracklist for his album DONDA tonight. He says it’s coming out on Friday. The 12-track LP follows his previous announcement that a new album called God’s Country was in the works. See the working tracklist for DONDA below.
Update (7/22 12:12 a.m.): Kanye claimed in a new tweet that a new album and movie called DONDA: WITH CHILD are both out on Friday. Find it below.
The new tracklist for DONDA does not include the recently released single “Wash Us in the Blood.” In addition to one song called “God’s Country” and another called “In God’s Country,” the album also includes “New Body.” The track was originally set to appear on Jesus Is King with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign, but was dropped from that album.
DONDA follows Kanye’s 2019 studio album Jesus Is King, which landed in October of that year following multiple delays.
DONDA is not the first time West has changed the title of a project ahead of its release. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was originally slated to be called Good Ass Job; previous titles for The Life of Pablo were SWISH and Waves. News of the album arrives as Kanye has been rolling out a presidential campaign.
The roll-out for Jesus Is King coincided with Kanye’s Sunday Service gospel and worship series. On Christmas 2019, Kanye released Jesus Is Born, an LP of recordings made by his Sunday Service Choir. Kanye also staged two biblical operas last year: Nebuchadnezzar at the Hollywood Bowl and Mary at the waterfront Miami Marine Stadium.
In 2018, Kanye released ye as part of a string of albums he produced, including his collaborative LP with Kid Cudi KIDS SEE GHOSTS. There’s also a new animated series of the same name on the way, featuring West as a bear and Kid Cudi as a character named Kid Fox.
Read Pitchfork’s Longform piece “The Plight of the Kanye Superfan.”
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