BENEDICAT vos omnipotens Deus, Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus.
MAY Almighty God bless you: the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
AMEN
Above is the link to the music video of the song "Donda" by Kanye West
Donda is the tenth studio album by American rapper Kanye West. It was released on August 29, 2021, through GOOD Music and distributed by Def Jam Recordings. West recorded much of the material at multiple locations in the summer of 2021, including Bighorn Mountain Ranch in Greybull, Wyoming. Guest vocals from the Sunday Service Choir, Jay-Z, Playboi Carti, Lil Baby, the Weeknd, Vory, DaBaby, and Marilyn Manson, among others, are featured. West and Ojivolta handled most of the production, with further conditions from the likes of BoogzDaBeast, Dem Jointz, and Mike Dean.
The album was initially set for release in July 2020 under the title of God's Country but experienced multiple delays. Donda's first public listening event was held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on July 19, 2021, followed by a second event there on August 5 that set a record for the biggest Apple Music Livestream ever. The third and final listening event was conducted at Soldier Field in Chicago on August 26, 2021. The album is primarily hip-hop, gospel, progressive rap, and pop record that features elements of numerous genres, including trap and drill. It is both minimalist and maximalist, with a reduced presence of drums and darker lyrical content in comparison to West's prior efforts. The themes explored include religion, Kanye's divorce from Kim Kardashian, and Donda West, whose forename is used for the title.
Kanye West quickly accused Universal Music Group of having released Donda without his approval, which the label denied. "Hurricane" was released as the lead single in September 2021 and charted at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. The album received mixed reviews from music critics, who were mostly divided towards cohesiveness. Some noted an improvement from West's previous work and praised the composition, though numerous reviewers criticized the long runtime. Donda initially scored the most first-day streams for an album in 2021 on both Apple Music and Spotify.
Donda stood as West's 10th consecutive chart-topper on the US Billboard 200, tying the record set by Eminem. It reached the summit in 18 other regions, including Australia, France, and the United Kingdom, becoming West's first number-one album in the second of the three countries. The album has been certified gold in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), alongside being awarded the certification in New Zealand by Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ). As a result of their respective allegations of homophobia and sexual abuse, the appearances of DaBaby and Marilyn Manson created controversy amongst audiences. In October 2021, the Donda Stem Player was issued, allowing users the remix the songs and add three new ones.
On November 18, 2019, West announced on Twitter that he was working with fellow rapper and producer Dr. Dre on a collaborative album entitled Jesus Is King Part II. Nine days later, record producer Ronny J confirmed that he had recently been in Wyoming to work on the album. During a December 2019 concert of his group the Sunday Service Choir in Lynwood, California, West stated that he had always wished he could collaborate with Dr. Dre and added, "Who knew all I had to do was do an album for God and then Dr. Dre would start mixing my beats? Spend your time on God, and he'll handle the rest." That same month, fellow rapper Consequence confirmed that he was in Wyoming when asked about recording for Jesus Is King Part II.
In March 2020, West recorded new music in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, before returning to Wyoming with his family due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That same month, GOOD Music president Pusha T stated in a Discord interview that he had been recording with West recently. Pusha T was planning to meet with West on March 16, 2020, to complete a project, but cited "flights slowing down" due to COVID travel restrictions as the reason for a delay. On March 12, 2020, rappers Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine were spotted in Wyoming recording material with West. Westside Gunn would later confirm his collaboration with West in an interview for Elliot Wilson on Tidal, alongside recalling that they were set to travel to Cabo San Lucas, California after recording in Wyoming until the COVID-19 pandemic canceled their plans.
During a conversation with French fashion designer Michèle Lamy in an Instagram Live stream on May 25, 2020, American cinematographer Arthur Jafa revealed that he was working on video material with West for a single from his forthcoming album, titled God's Country. On June 26, 2020, West unveiled a collaboration between his fashion company Yeezy and clothing retailer Gap alongside the launch of the #WestDayEver promotional campaign on Twitter, which accompanied announcements of different projects that same day. One of the projects was a music video for the track "Wash Us in the Blood" that features fellow rapper Travis Scott, directed by Jafa; the video was released on June 30, following a teaser in which West officially announced the album's title as God's Country. The track was set to be included on Donda but did not appear on the final tracklisting. On July 13, 2020, West shared a snippet on Twitter of the song "Donda", which featured his late mother Donda West reciting KRS-One's "Sound of da Police" (1993) and was accompanied by archival footage, including the Wests rapping together.
On July 21, 2020, Kanye West announced a release date of three days later and posted a revised tracklist, two days after he had tweeted another tracklist and subsequently deleted it. West also confirmed the title had been changed to Donda in honor of his mother, who he had also named his creative company after. Ultimately, the album missed its planned release date. On July 25, 2020, West tweeted out an accompanying album cover, showing an infrared scheme of orange and red mirroring the shape of the people, sun, and moon in the sky, backed by green mountains alongside purple and white clouds. West later shared a possible replacement cover via Twitter, which was an adaptation of a Louise Bourgeois gouache painting that had been created in 2007, the same year as Donda West's death, and included in Bourgeois' series Les têtes bleues et les femmes rouges (2015). A woman is shown in monochromatic red on the painting and a matching ponytail flows behind her, while a fertility idol is also partially present. After Kanye West posted numerous potential covers, a plain black square was ultimately used as the artwork for the album.
West sent out a series of tweets about his relationship with Universal Music in September 2020, mostly addressing his desire to buy his master recordings back from them. The rapper asserted that these efforts were obstructed by his signed contracts, succeeding this by tweeting multiple images that supposedly showed the contracts. On September 26, 2020, West shared a 39-second snippet of the track "Believe What I Say" to Twitter. West later released a song entitled "Nah Nah Nah" on October 26, calling the song his 2020 presidential campaign's theme music; it includes him referencing his candidacy. On November 13, 2020, West released a remix of "Nah Nah Nah" that features fellow rappers DaBaby and 2 Chainz. After the original and remix were both removed from streaming services in the lead up to Donda's release, neither of them made the final cut. On November 23, 2020, Consequence expressed enthusiasm about the album, describing it as "fire".
West's manager Abou "Bu" Thiam teased the release of Donda on June 8, 2021, commenting on Gap's Instagram post announcing their jacket with Yeezy, "WestDayEver. Album OTW!" On July 17, Consequence posted a video of West in the studio with Tyler, the Creator on Instagram. The caption of the post suggested a late 2021 album release. On July 19, Pusha T announced on Instagram that West would be holding a listening event for the album in three days at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Audio products company Beats by Dre then premiered a commercial during game six of the 2021 NBA Finals with athlete Sha'Carri Richardson, scored by West's track "No Child Left Behind". The commercial also showed the release date for Donda as July 23, 2021, and marked one of the first snippets of the music. French producer Gesaffelstein later revealed that he produced the song, marking his second time working with West after having previously contributed to the rapper's sixth studio album Yeezus (2013). Immediately following the commercial's debut, Def Jam reaffirmed the album's release date and revealed that the Atlanta listening event would be globally livestreamed on Apple Music.
West flew Lil Baby out to Wyoming to record for Donda on July 22, 2020, following on from him stating, "Lil baby is my favorite rapper but won't do a song with me." The rapper ended up recording his verse for "Hurricane" after Kenyan-American rapper KayCyy suggested to him that he should contribute to it. The original version of the song was previewed via Instagram by West in September 2018 and also leaked online, initially being intended for his scrapped album Yandhi. After "Hurricane" was first previewed, it went through various iterations, with contributions from artists such as 6ix9ine, KayCyy, and American musician Ty Dolla Sign. However, none of their contributions made the final cut, which features vocals from Lil Baby and Canadian singer The Weeknd. On March 8, 2021, Cyhi the Prynce stated in an interview with VladTV that West had resumed work on Donda amid his divorce from his wife Kim Kardashian. On May 30, West was joined in the studio by fellow rapper Playboi Carti. Court filings obtained on June 14 revealed that West was recording for the album in Honolulu, Hawaii, after reportedly "freaking out" during his deposition in an ongoing lawsuit with tech company MyChannel; he held sessions at Island Studio in the city. Singer-songwriter Syleena Johnson worked on music in San Francisco on July 15, 2021, indicating via an Instagram post that she was collaborating with West. Speaking for Cocktails with Queens on Fox Soul, Johnson said she recorded the song "Donda Chant" as well as vocals for another track in the session that was ultimately scrapped.
After holding a listening event for Donda at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021, West took up temporary residence in one of the locker rooms, converting it into a studio for finishing the recording and mixing with producer Mike Dean. Playboi Carti and 2 Chainz joined West for recording in the room, with West posting a photo to Instagram of himself and the former there a day before the event. 2 Chainz reportedly recorded his verse mere hours prior to the listening event, as did fellow rapper Jay-Z. After failing to meet the album's scheduled release date of July 23, West continued to record and live in Mercedes-Benz Stadium up until the second listening party held there on August 6, 2021. 24 hours before the second listening event commenced, West could be seen doing numerous activities during an Apple Music Livestream. West also recorded for Donda at Bighorn Mountain Ranch in Greybull, Wyoming, which he bought for $14.5 million. The ranch spans over 6,700 acres, covering a larger area than the Monster Lake Ranch property in Wyoming that West previously bought.
Donda covers the stylistic groundwork of West's previous albums; it has been described as a hip hop, gospel, progressive rap, and pop record. The album includes elements of trap, drill, boom bap, hip house, and rock. Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Mikael Wood described it as a blend of Yeezus's rough industrial hip hop, the "church-organ gospel" of West's previous studio album Jesus Is King (2019), the "gothic swagger" of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), and the "bleeping" electropop of 808s & Heartbreak (2008). Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic perceived that "stylistic innovation has driven West's career" continuously, but he possibly "conceives of Donda as the album of his life—a capstone, an anthology". However, the album is unusual in his catalog due to its lack of drums, outside of a slight amount of snares and occasional synth basses that imitate rhythm sections. Donda's integration of gospel music is more subtle than that of its predecessor, instead favoring the usage of trap beats and Auto-Tune. At Pitchfork, Dylan Green noted the production "jumps" from trap and drill to boom-bap and gospel, invoking GOOD Music's compilation album Cruel Summer (2012).
According to Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph, the album is a maximalist hip hop record that follows a "more is more" philosophy through its "gleaming, swooping grooves and several kitchen sinks worth of production"; he noted how the grooves "go off" similarly to monster trucks moving loudly around a stadium. In contrast, Craig Jenkins of Vulture said that Donda's "unifying quality is a subtle minimalism", with prominent silence. Fred Thomas of AllMusic similarly opined that the album is built on "minimal arrangements that linger while feeling eerily unfinished". Jenkins also noticed West's diminished presence on the record, where he felt his "raps and hooks take up significantly less real estate" than any releases of his since Cruel Summer. In The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Dwyer wrote that the "gospel flourishes of organ and voices" on Donda are elevated by "passionate yearning". It has a length of 1 hour and 48 minutes (1:48), which Green said contains "euphoric highs" with a lack of "connective tissue", observing "a data dump of songs searching for a higher calling". Gigwise writer Charlie Brock depicted that the album "ebbs and flows", being "melancholic and subversive" at some points, and "outlandish and snarling" at others.
Donda was inspired by religion, being themed around West's faith across much of the material. Some critics have described the album as somber, with darker lyrical content than West's previous works. For Exclaim!, Riley Wallace asserted that it is a lot less clumsy than Jesus Is King and also a "more accessible body of work". References to addiction and mental instability are prominent, as well as Kanye West's ego and his family, including the collapse of his marriage with Kardashian and thoughts about Donda. Themes of hope, rebirth, and salvation are also present. Jon Caramanica wrote for The New York Times that in Donda, West continues to trade off the lyrical focus on self-awareness and wordplay of his earlier material for a more "terse and immediate approach, one that complements his musical shifts toward the industrial and the spiritual", which he started to do in the 2010s. In the same vein, as Jesus Is King, Donda features no explicit language, with all expletives being edited out.
The album's opening track, "Donda Chant", consists of singer Syleena Johnson chanting Donda West's forename repeatedly for nearly a minute. "Jail" follows and is the first full track, featuring Kanye West and Jay-Z combining metaphors about crime with details of marriage and sin. The track is a fusion of "maximalist hip hop", pop, and alternative rock, incorporating auto-tuned vocals and arena rock guitar riffs. The song contains almost no drums until the last segment of the track brings a "brief, stilted drum pattern", described as industrial percussion. "God Breathed" has an abrasive, industrial sound that was compared to Yeezus, and features West offering redemption, reaffirming his trust in God before a wordless choir performs the outro. Playboi Carti and fellow rapper Fivio Foreign attempt to find a balance between faith in themselves and faith in God within their verses on "Off the Grid", later being followed by West providing a revelation of his religious mission statement in the closing verse and at one point, he dubs God "my bestie". The song has an intense drill beat, featuring a "melodically complex" bassline and a "sustained choir". "Hurricane" is an R&B song, with layered organs and processed choir vocals that are cut akin to a sample. West touches on personal issues such as his breakup with Kardashian and his house, while the hook sees the Weeknd exude confidence and Lil Baby provides a mournful performance. "Praise God" contains a vocal sample of Donda West proclaiming, "Even if you are not ready for the day, it cannot always be night." Lyrically, the song features Baby Keem mixing "worship with the dark carnality of the mosh pit" and Kanye West connecting his issues to God's mysterious behavior. "Jonah" sees him rapping about his relationship with God, alongside fellow rappers Vory and Lil Durk opening up about their pain of losing friends and family members, respectively.
"Ok Ok" includes West commanding his status, while fellow rapper Lil Yachty boasts about sexual action. "Junya" is a tribute to Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe and features a skeletal arrangement of handclaps, organs, and heavy bass. It contains a Drake diss from West, who alludes to Certified Lover Boy's delayed-release. On "Believe What I Say", described as hip-house, R&B, and soul, West offers a reminder to not let fame drag him down and references Kardashian. West and the Sunday Service Choir provide worship on "24", which features him delivering a message of hope in relation to God over a discordant organ. "Remote Control" has an instrumental with a whistling hook over which West comments on technology and its infiltration of life, while Young Thug boasts about his property. On "Moon", rapper Kid Cudi provides a wistful performance. Throughout "Heaven and Hell", West lets out his thoughts on Jeff Bezos, vinyl, and modern culture. "Donda" contains a vocal sample of a speech by West's mother of the same name, who talks about him being a genius; the speech precedes a Christian worship moment from The World Famous Tony Williams. On the boom-bap track "Keep My Spirit Alive", West claims to be anti-commercial and links his problems with the behavior of God. "Jesus Lord" stands as Donda's centerpiece and Kanye West details the story of how he changed from who he used to be in his verse, as well as questioning if he will go to heaven and see Donda there. Rapper Jay Electronica then offers a cryptic worldview based on various points, before the song ends with the son of gang leader Larry Hoover thanking West for taking his father's case to the White House of 2017–2021 US President Donald Trump.
Throughout the hip-house track "New Again", West searches for salvation and showcases awareness of religion's trappings. The first version featured Brown crooning repentance for everything he will do again on the chorus, though the update replaced him with West and the Sunday Service Choir. "Tell the Vision" serves as an interlude and is an alternate take on the song of the same name from the 2021 album Faith by rapper Pop Smoke, who is the sole performer on the interlude. On "Lord I Need You", West goes into detail about divorcing Kardashian and at one point, he begs God to "wrap your arms around me in mercy". Within "Pure Souls", religious ideas are expressed and West declares there is a new version of him to adapt to, while Roddy Ricch wonders about truth on the hook. West sings about the emotional fallout from getting divorced on "Come to Life", alongside assuring that he is connected with God. "No Child Left Behind" is the album's final track before the second versions of songs and features Vory uttering the titular phrase in reference to the education act signed by 2001–2009 US President George W. Bush, as well as West singing about the guidance and strength that he has received from God.
The last four tracks on Donda are either alternate or extended versions of preceding songs. "Jail pt 2" features an additional verse from DaBaby, who doubles down on his homophobia, complains about financial issues, and references his daughters. Singer Marilyn Manson also appears on the version, singing along with West at a few points. "Ok Ok pt 2" and "Junya pt 2" include further contributions from Shenseea and Ty Dolla Sign, respectively. Extra verses are performed on "Jesus Lord pt 2" by each member of the Lox, with them opening up about their connections to different gods.
In late July 2021, a representative for West announced a release date of August 6 for Donda, which was later confirmed via both a Beats by Dre commercial and West's Apple Music Livestream. On August 5, 2021, a pre-order for the album was launched on iTunes, revealing it to feature 24 songs, along with an August 27 release date, before the date was revised to six days later. Conflictingly, Apple Music displayed the release date to be August 15, before one set for five days later appeared on the service. On August 20, 2021, the service listed a release date of August 28, one day after Donda's third listening party; Thiam reaffirmed that the release would come after the event. On August 27, 2021, Donda's release date experienced another pushback on Apple Music, setting it to coincide with the release of Drake's sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy on September 3. It was speculated across social media that the delay was intentional to increase competition between the two artists.
On August 29, 2021, Donda was released by GOOD Music, distributed by Def Jam, succeeding several delays during that month. "Jail pt 2" was originally absent, only showing up on the Spotify version of the album, where it appeared as an "unavailable" track due to DaBaby's manager not having cleared his verse at the time of release. Hours after its official release, West claimed that Universal Music had released Donda without his approval and blocked "Jail pt 2" from appearing on the album. Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal later added the song to Donda. Universal Music denied that they had either released the album without West's approval or blocked the release of "Jail pt 2", with an anonymous source at the company calling his claims "preposterous".
On September 3, 2021, "Hurricane" was playlisted by Swedish mainstream station Sveriges Radio P3. The song was sent to American rhythmic contemporary radio stations by GOOD Music and Def Jam as the lead single from Donda on September 14, 2021. "Hurricane" reached number 12 on the Swedish Singles Chart following the album's release, while it debuted five places higher on the UK Singles Chart. The song entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at number six, giving West his 19th top-10 hit on the chart. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for amassing 500,000 certified units in the US on September 29, 2021. "Jail" simultaneously debuted at number 10 on the Hot 100, with the two entries making West the 21st act to have 20 top-10s on the Hot 100.
West purchased many large billboards to advertise Donda in Drake's hometown of Toronto during September 2021, outnumbering the ones used for Certified Lover Boy on the day of its release. A music video for "Come to Life" was released on September 2, 2021. The video features footage from the album's third listening event at Soldier Field, showing West setting on fire then reuniting with Kardashian. A music video for "24" was released on September 16, 2021. The video begins with footage from Donda's second Mercedes-Benz Stadium listening event of West ascending towards the sky before he rises above the stadium and floats around among clouds. A clip for "Donda Chant" was shared exclusively to Instagram by West on September 19, 2021. The black-and-white visual incorporates aerial footage from the album's Soldier Field listening event that shows the replica of Kanye West's childhood home, on which flashes of old pictures of Donda are projected. On October 16, 2021, West performed a four-song set for Tiffany & Co. executive Alexandre Arnault and D'estree founder Geralde Guyot after their wedding in Venice, Italy, which included "Come to Life" and "Believe What I Say".
On its first day of release, Donda earned the second-biggest global Spotify debut for album streams ever, with nearly 100 million streams, and broke the record for the biggest first-day streams of 2021 on the service that was set by Olivia Rodrigo's Sour. The album also set a new record by reaching number one on Apple Music's top albums chart in 152 countries on its first day and earned the third-biggest first-day debut streams for an album. West and Donda broke the 2021 record for the most-streamed artist and album in one day on Apple Music, while 19 of the top-20 tracks on the service's Top 100 Global songs chart were from the album. Donda amassed 60 million first-day streams in the United States on Apple, setting a streaming record for 2021 in the country. After eight days of streaming, it had reached around 423 million on-demand audio streams in the US. 25 of the tracks debuted with the top-40 of Spotify's U.S. chart, with 10 of them occupying the top-10. The album's 2021 record for first-day Spotify streams was broken by Certified Lover Boy, which also surpassed its eight-day total of US on-demand audio streams within three days, amassing over 430 million streams. By October 26, the former had amassed over a billion streams on Spotify, becoming West's fastest album to achieve this milestone.
On September 28, 2021, West released an updated version of Donda separately from the original on streaming services. The changes included the removal of KayCyy and Brown from "Keep My Spirit Alive" and "New Again", respectively; Brown's writing credits were also removed from the latter. West replaced KayCyy on the former, while he and the Sunday Service Choir appeared in place of Brown on "New Again".
On August 25, 2021, West announced the Donda Stem Player via his website, a standalone music player allowing users to remix the album's songs using their stems. Users are also given the ability to control vocals, drums, bass, and samples, isolate parts, and add effects. The player was announced as being set to be released by West's brand Yeezy Tech in collaboration with Kano Computing and sold for $200. On October 27, 2021, the Donda Stem Player was made available by West, with three extra songs being included. The new songs are a censored edit of "Life of the Party", "Up from the Ashes", and an updated version of "Never Abandon Your Family". In addition, the player contains a version of "Remote Control" that re-adds Kid Cudi's original contribution
On November 5, 2021, in an interview with N.O.R.E. on Drink Champs, West announced that a deluxe version of Donda is set to be released, teasing a song called "Let Go".
Donda debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 after a five-day period of tracking, with 309,000 album-equivalent units that consisted of 272,000 streaming-equivalent album units, 37,000 pure album sales, and less than 1,000 track-equivalent units. The album-equivalent units set a record for the highest amount of 2021, exceeding the 295,000 units amassed by Olivia Rodrigo's Sour. Kanye West scored his 10th chart-topper on the Billboard 200 with the album, making him one of seven artists to have gathered this amount of number-ones on the chart. It also marked West's 10th consecutive album to debut at the summit, tying him with Eminem's record. Donda ranked as the longest number-one album of the 2020s decade, spanning nearly 109 minutes. It reached the summit of the US Top Christian Albums and Top Gospel Albums charts too, becoming West's second album to top the two charts and achieving the biggest unit week for both. The album entered atop the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, on which it was the rapper's 10th chart-topper. 23 of Donda's tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, leading to West joining Drake as one of the two artists to have 23 or more songs chart simultaneously. This also increased West's Hot 100 entries to 133, the fifth most of any act, a ranking he attained for top-40 hits as well by having scored 68. "Hurricane" was the highest-charting track, reaching number six and becoming West's 19th top-20 hit. The 23 tracks took up the top-23 spots on both the US Christian Songs and Gospel Songs charts, exceeding West's record of all top-10 positions on the former chart and the top-11 on the latter. As a result of the album and its tracks, West went up from number 67 to the top position on the BillboardArtist 100, giving him his third week atop the chart. By September 15, 2021, Donda had pushed 500,000 album-equivalent units in the US, making the album eligible to be certified gold by the RIAA; the organization awarded it with this certification 12 days later.
The revelation of DaBaby and Marilyn Manson as guest artists during Donda's August 26 listening event was met with intense disapproval from audiences due to the respective allegations of homophobia and sexual abuse against them. According to Jem Aswad of Variety, "West was widely accused of trolling the public, among other things, after [the] event." In response, as Ellen Durney of BuzzFeed News wrote, "some fans" suggested that the inclusion of DaBaby and Manson might have been West's "attempt at commentary on 'cancel culture", and the Consequence writer Alex Young provided a similar presumption. West defended DaBaby's presence, recalling him being "the only person who said he would vote for me in public". An unspecified source told People about West's decision to work with the rapper and Marilyn Manson: "He knows that having controversial figures around will be provocative and will get people to [sic] talking." The source continued by opening up that West knows "people are going to be upset" and he will experience "backlash", and is also aware "people are talking about it today when they wouldn't have been otherwise".
Marilyn Manson's former partner Evan Rachel Wood, who had accused him of sexual assault, "seem[ed] to respond" to his inclusion on Donda a few hours after its release, according to NME's Daly. She did this by posting a video of her covering New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" to Instagram, quoting its title and encouraging recent alleged fellow survivors "who got slapped in the face" to not give up. Aaron Loose of Christianity Today slammed West's decision to work with Marilyn Manson and DaBaby as "an unforgivable insult to marginalized rap fans", alongside offering that it is hard not to skip "New Again" due to "convicted domestic abuser" Brown's lazy crooning about repenting. O'Connor at The Independent criticized the presence of the former two, whom she describes as "two of music's most despised figures", finding their inclusion inexcusable. She condemned Universal Music for approving the album's release, noting that Marilyn Manson's appearance "speaks volumes of society's apathy towards rape survivors".
1." Donda Chant"
2. " Jail"
3. " God Breathed"
4." Off the Grid"
5. " Hurricane"
6." Praise God"
7. " Jonah"
8. " Ok Ok"
9. " Junya"
10. " Believe What I Say"
11. "24"
12. "Remote Control"
13. "Moon"
14. "Heaven & Hell"
15. "Donda"
16. "Keep My Spirit Alive"
17. "Jesus Lord"
18. "New Again"
19. "Tell the Vision"
20. "Lord I Need You"
21. "Pure Souls"
22. "Come To Life"
23. "No Child Left Behind"
24. "Jail pt2"
25. "Ok Ok pt2"
26. "Junya pt2"
27. " Jesus Lord pt2"
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