{"id":30023,"date":"2021-07-19T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=30023"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:57:52","slug":"everything-we-know-about-kanye-wests-new-album","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/everything-we-know-about-kanye-wests-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Know About Kanye West&#8217;s Rumoured Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30063\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30063\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1279495152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Neil Mockford\/GC Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the reports of Twitter&#8217;s resident sleuths and celebrity-adjacent social media personalities, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/azealia-banks-has-a-message-for-kanye-west\/\">Kanye West<\/a> premiered his forthcoming album at an intimate listening party in Las Vegas. Although snippets of the event has yet to be officially confirmed, long-time fans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kanye-west-yeezy-gap-release\/\">musical maestro<\/a> believe that the tracks are from his unreleased album <em>Donda<\/em> \u2014 a tribute to his late mother who passed away in 2007.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Kanye West&#39;s listening party for his upcoming album is going on right now in Las Vegas! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fxMEINun4q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fxMEINun4q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SAINT (@saint) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saint\/status\/1416932441122553865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>News of the reported event flooded timelines Sunday evening and on Monday, footage of the event seemingly captured Ye&#8217; nodding steadily to cadence of a song with a mask covering his identifying features. The verse recorded in the roughly 30-second video detailed a household fraught with trauma, drug abuse and an absentee parent. <em>&#8220;Daughter just turned one, and she still depending on her mom \/ Big brother in the streets, he went and bought him a gun,\u201d<\/em> the lyrics, which are partially muffled, seem to say. The track continues, <em>&#8220;And her mom doing drugs cause that&#8217;s the only time she feel love.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FIRST SNIPPET FROM KANYE WEST&#39;S LAS VEGAS LISTENING PARTY \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OcqaesIgnW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OcqaesIgnW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squirt Reynolds (@SquirtReynolds_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquirtReynolds_\/status\/1416970676192387080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Justin Laboy, who has a cult-like social media following for his #Respectfully slogan and is the host of <em>Respectfully Justin<\/em> on REVOLT, also confirmed via Twitter that West played his new album for him and NBA all-star Kevin Durant. \u201cMan listen! The production is light years ahead of it\u2019s time, and the bars sound like he\u2019s broke &amp; hungry trying to get signed again. Any artist who plan on dropping soon should just push it back,\u201d he wrote, adding an apparent photo of the three in the studio in a separate tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kanye played his new album for me &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDTrey5?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@KDTrey5<\/a> last night in Vegas. Man listen! The production is light years ahead of it\u2019s time, and the bars sound like he\u2019s broke &amp; hungry trying to get signed again. Any artist who plan on dropping soon should just push it back \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Respectfully?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Respectfully<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinLaboy\/status\/1416892827594854400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ALBUM OF THE YEAR. DONT @ ME <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/baaL9fHKOv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/baaL9fHKOv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinLaboy\/status\/1416933714970415106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In another tweet, Laboy confirmed the album&#8217;s hotly-anticipated premiere is imminent, writing, \u201cKanye West album is really done. When it drops this week, we probably not going to listen to anything else for a while. Let me go enjoy all the current artist I\u2019m listening to until then. God bless.\u201c<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kanye West album is really done. When it drops this week, we probably not going to listen to anything else for a while.. Let me go enjoy all the current artist I\u2019m listening to until then. God bless\u270c\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Respectfully?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Respectfully<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinLaboy\/status\/1416894607414239232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As more unauthenticated reports of the album&#8217;s circulated and listed features with Westside Gunn, Lil Baby, Travis Scott, Pusha T and Baby Keem, a footage of the latter collaboration also arrived to timelines.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@kanyewest<\/a> snippet featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/babykeem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@babykeem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kanye?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#kanye<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KanyeWest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#KanyeWest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/babykeem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#babykeem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/donda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#donda<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HEzj6aRzG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2HEzj6aRzG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; papa of 16 (@wetspageddi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wetspageddi\/status\/1416983221967917056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Donda<\/em>, originally titled <em>God&#8217;s Country<\/em>, was first teased in March 2020 and later slated for release in July 2020.\u00a0<em>If<\/em> the tenth studio album finally debuts this week, we&#8217;re assured the project will be met with rapturous applause from his die-hard standom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29094,"featured_media":30064,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everything We Know About Kanye West&#039;s Rumoured Album - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to social media reports, Kanye West hosted an intimate listening party for his forthcoming album. 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