Its 1 hour and 48-minute runtime includes euphoric highs that lack connective tissue, a data dump of songs searching for a higher calling. Like any album put on to streaming services without the artist’s approval, Donda arrived barely finished and with a lot of baggage. Each session felt like market-testing disguised as performance art, and was somehow worse than both 2016’s Life of Pablo event at Madison Square Garden and his infamous Jackson Hole gathering for ye. Thousands of people in-person and millions more online watched as songs about God, family, divorce, and “throat coat for the throat GOATs” blasted through speakers while a masked Kanye did push-ups and frolicked with DaBaby, who recently spouted homophobic remarks, and Marilyn Manson, who is currently facing multiple lawsuits for sexual assault. West, came to life across three listening events held in two of the biggest stadiums in the country. The music of Kanye-who once said 400 years of slavery was a choice, who once tweeted that Bill Cosby was innocent, who revolutionized rap and has not made a truly great album in five years-sounds like an afterthought, some extra sounds to have as a treat.ĭonda, his 10th studio album, named after his late mother Dr. The subordinate clauses that are now required to contextualize the artist himself loom large over everything he does.
art has turned into a rote acceptance of Kanye and his stadium-sized album release events, shelved projects, billion-dollar sneaker empire, public grappling with bipolar disorder, devotion to Christianity and non-secular music, MAGA tryst with former President Donald Trump, and presidential run of his own.
Now, something has dulled in his kingdom and the thrill of watching man vs. He was a tightrope walker in shutter shades and Louis Vuitton stockings. There was sport in watching a rapper go toe-to-toe with their own ego the way he did, all in service of passionate pop music that lived on the knife-edge of spectacle and solipsism. Contending with Kanye used to be so thrilling.
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