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After numerous controversies, publicity stunts, and three listening parties, ultimately the album is launched on August 29 by Good Music and Def Jam Recordings.

After two years, “Donda” is the first launch in the rear of the 2019 doctrine album Jesus Is King, which was accoladed with one of the categories in Grammy awards.

Kayne first decided to release the album after his first listening party that happened on July 22 in Atlanta. JAY-Z was the first one to collaborate on the album but the launch was delayed due to its incompletion.

However, In the latest listening event, Jay-Z's passionate jingles were put in place by new jingles by DaBaby, which led to an online firestorm, and many other artist jingles were also replaced including Kid Cudi and the Lox.

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The album is about two hours long with 27 songs in whole. A few of them are “Hurricane,” “Praise of God,” “Moon” and “New Again” 

Despite being listed on Spotify, the song “Jail 2” faced some problems in playing. One of the reasons could be that the track was not permitted by the authorization to play by the streaming media owing to the issues of copywriting. Later after few hours, it started streaming on all the media channels.

A screen sharing of the messages between West and DaBaby. (Image Source: abc)

An insider revealed that West was very much aware of the challenges he has to face on inviting the controversial celebrities- DaBaby and Marilyn Manson for the listening party.

The reason being DaBaby announcement in public about him voting first to West for the run of US president. West messaged DaBaby that his manager is not allowing the song to be published in Donda. Whereas, the rockstar manager has disagreed with these claims.

Later, West pointed the finger at the Universal studio that that studio was the reason for blocking and not approving the song Jail 2.

West is famous for editing his tracks on and on after publishing them. In the past, 2016 his track “Life of Pablo” he re-recorded and re-mixed it for few weeks after the launch on streaming media. Hence, people are thinking the album to be edited later also.