Kanye West finally releases his new studio album “Donda” on Sunday. The album included contributions from Jay-Z, The Weeknd, Young Thug, Jay Electronica, The Lox, Travis Scott, and others.
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The album “Donda” was originally slated for a July 22nd
release, after the first of three elaborate listening events.
Kanye West’s last album which was a Grammy-winning
gospel record “Jesus Is King,” was released back in 2019.
With the latest release of “Donda,” Kanye West is claiming
that the Universal Music Group, which happens to be the parent company to the
label Def Jam, released “Donda” without Kanye West’s approval.
West took to Instagram on Sunday, which was just hours
following the much-awaited “Donda” was released around 8 a.m. Kanye wrote, “Universal
put my album without my approval and they blocked Jail 2 from being on the
album.”
West’s mention of “Jail 2” is referring to the album’s
24th track, “Jail Pt 2,” which was originally unavailable to stream
when the album was first released. However, around 1p.m. Eastern Time, the song
already became available for streaming. Ideally, if a song or a track in an
album is not available for streaming on music platforms such as Spotify, it denotes
that a particular song has not been legally cleared from any copyright issues
or any legal concerns for that matter.