Kanye West rolled ‘DONDA 2’ out with a nationwide IMAX occasion, and followers had been fast to report that even on this album, Ye wouldn’t depart Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson alone.
Donda 2 by no means formally dropped on Tuesday, Feb. 22 (aka 02/22/2022) like Kanye “Ye” Westinitially promised, however ‘Ye did play the album for followers at a listening social gathering that night time. Those that attended the occasion spilled the tea about what to anticipate on the album, and it included some drama surrounding the rapper’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Kanye teased the album’s monitor listing a number of days earlier than the discharge social gathering, and the music that had folks speaking essentially the most after the Feb. 22 occasion was “Safety.” On the monitor, ‘Ye appeared to throw some digs and threats in direction of Kim and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson.
“By no means take the household image off the fridge,” Kanye reportedly raps on the music, in accordance with followers who attended the listening social gathering. “By no means stand between a person and his children. Y’all ain’t obtained sufficient safety for this, y’all ain’t obtained sufficient safety for this. I put your safety in danger, I make your safety acquit, like we don’t receives a commission sufficient for this.” Kanye has already been vocal along with his allegations that Kim has put safety between him and his children, and this music appears to double down on these claims.
Ye introduced the Donda 2 listening social gathering on Feb. 12, posting a photograph of a home – much like the one he grew up in – on fireplace. Ye rebuilt the childhood dwelling for his August 2021 Donda listening social gathering at Chicago’s Soldier Discipline. It was throughout this Chicago occasion that Kim appeared sporting a Balenciaga wedding ceremony robe on the occasion’s finale. On the time, the couple was six months faraway from Kim submitting for divorce. Regardless of the separation, Kim had proven as much as help Ye on the Donda listening events in Atlanta. Nevertheless, following Ye’s current assaults on Kim and her relationship with Pete, listeners assumed that Kim wouldn’t do a repeat efficiency for this preliminary Donda 2 listening occasion.
Although Kim and Pete started their relationship within the fall of 2021, Ye started his warfare on their love firstly of 2022. The primary salvo got here in January with “Eazy,” a collab with The Sport. “God saved me from that crash / simply so I can beat Pete Davidson’s ass,” rapped Ye on the monitor, which additionally seems on Donda 2 and was performed on the Feb. 22 occasion. West adopted that up with a verse on “Metropolis of God,” a brand new collab with Fivio International, a number of weeks later. “This afternoon, 100 goons pullin’ as much as SNL / Once I pull up, it’s lifeless on arrival / They act like they love me, they don’t even such as you,” rapped Ye, who additionally added, “And if I let ’em have my spouse, n***as ought to thank me / With this Balenciaga and Balenci’ boots and a brand new blue Yankee.”
After that, Ye continued to go off on Pete. He reduce ties with longtime collaborator Child Cudi over his friendship with Pete. Ye dissed Pete’s buddy Machine Gun Kelly (“No One Has Heard A Machine Gun Kelly Tune”) whereas insinuating there was a Disney-backed conspiracy towards him. Ye posted-and-deleted quite a few memes and photos that mocked Pete, to the purpose that Kim texted him to again off out of worry that a Ye-fanboy would harm Pete. Although Ye promised to take “accountability” for his actions, that truce didn’t final lengthy — and clearly, the warfare has discovered its manner dwelling on Donda 2.