Kanye West officially releases ‘Donda 2’ on streaming platforms
Kanye West has officially released his Donda 2 album on streaming services three years later. The sequel to his 2021 album, named after his late mother, was initially released via the Stem Player on February 23rd, 2022, for £150.
The Chicago rapper recently stated he hoped to make Donda 2 more widely available during a live stream, and now he’s delivered on that promise. The album is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music and other major platforms.
Most tracks remain unchanged from their 2022 versions, but some have different names. ‘530’ from his Vultures 2 album with Ty Dolla $ign also appears on Donda 2, while Future guests on ‘Happy’ and ‘Mr. Miyagi’, and Jack Harlow features on ‘Louie Bag’.
Notably, the album was released under the stage name “Donda,” rather than Kanye West’s own name.
Producer Digital Nas once revealed Ye’s intentions for Donda 2. “These are the directives for the album: ‘If it cannot be played at a funeral, childbirth, graduation, a wedding, it will not be on our record,’” he told Rolling Stone. “We learned a lot from Donda 1. We learned what hit. We learned what was sticking. So we took it from there. It has to be able to be played at four major moments in people’s lives. That’s crazy, right?
“So out of those 60 freestyles, to know that only two made the cut? That made me realize like, ‘Oh, OK. This is one of those playing fields where a lot of thought went into this tracklist. What I took from ‘Remote Control’, ‘Junya’ and even writing on ‘Hurricane,’ it’s like, ‘Take your time with what you make, don’t try to rush into it.’”
He added, “With Ye, when you play him music, if he doesn’t move to it, he doesn’t like it. So if he’s not moving, I just go to the next song, and that’s kind of how I’ve been basing my tracklisting.”