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Everything that surrounds Kanye West has become confusing and hyperbolic: this very morning,

by surprise and a year and a month later than planned

, the Chicago musician has published his new album on the Apple Music and Spotify streaming platforms.

Donda

, the name of West's mother (who died in 2007) is the already known title of the new collection of songs:

27 songs and 108 minutes long

, spun by the memory of the lost mother and the reunion with God, the songs main letters, and with a black box, without legend or drawing, as the cover.

The detail on the cover is significant for understanding

the difficult history

of

Donda

, the album that began to be talked about in the fateful spring of 2020. First, it was assumed that

West had chosen an image of Damian Hirst, figures in green on a reddish background.

Later, a gouache Louise Bourgeois was the illustration chosen according to sources very close to the artist. In the end,

Donda was

born as West's black record.

The same can be said of the album's timing. Filming began in Mexico, just before the outbreak of the pandemic, and

continued in late spring at West's ranch / lab in Wyoming

. At that time, the singer even published a scheme that announced a batch of

12 songs in 39 minutes

. There was even a release date: July 24, 2020.

But July was the time that West launched his election campaign for the presidency of the United States, the time when his public behavior became more erratic. And Donda's deadlines went by, between unexpected signings (that of the producers, Mars Volta, a rock group already separated), extravagant rumors (

Nick Cave denied that the album had been postponed to make room for him

), unexpected collaborations ( rapper Lil Baby, West's former foe) and a year-long blackout. For months,

Donda

seemed destined to be Kanye West's lost record. Until, at the beginning of the summer, the musician put it back on his schedule.

West took three "listening party" half and half concert

performance

in

playback

, stadiums Las Vegas, Atlanta and Chicago.

In the last of them, in his city, West included in the

show

Marilyn Manson and the rapper DaBaby (not to be confused with Lil Baby), two musicians

fallen from grace

in the last year: one for the accusations of sexual harassment and the other for his homophobic comments in public.

Nothing to do with the life of Donda West, the woman who gives the album its name: single mother and English teacher, Kanye West has always said that his mother was the one who led his talent to find an expression.

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