Kanye West new album 'Donda' features and collaborations
31 August 2021, 15:33
The rapper has released his long-awaited album 'Donda'. Here's everything we know about who is on the project.
Kanye West finally dropped his highly-anticipated new album 'Donda' on Sunday (Aug 29).
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The 44-year-old rapper has previously previewed a new song off his album titled ‘No Child Left Behind’ in a Beats by Dre advertisement starring US athlete Sha’Carri Richardson.
The track was produced by Dem Jointz, Kanye West & Gesaffelstein. Rapper Vory features on the song 'No Child Left Behind'.
But who else will feature on Kanye West's album 'Donda'?
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Chris Brown
Chris Brown may potentially have a new song with Kanye West on his new album 'Donda'.
On Tuesday (Jul 20) Breezy took to his Instagram stories to hint that he has an upcoming song with the 'Flashing Lights' rapper.
The singer wrote: "Dat Yeezy and Breezy [eyeballs emoji]". The post sparked rumours that they have a new collab.
The two previously collaborated on "Waves" from Kanye West's 2016 'Life Of Pablo' album.
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Pusha T
Pusha T has been rumoured to be on Kanye West's 'Donda' album.
The 'Stronger' rapper hosted a private listening party in Las Vegas on Sunday night (July 18).
Some clips from the event leaked online, debuting snippets of tracks on the album.
One of which, was Pusha T's alleged collaboration with Kanye.
A fan detailed what happened on the night on Twitter, writing: "Kanye then played a track with him and Pusha T rapping back and forth. Fireeeeee."
The pair are rumoured to be on a track together titled 'Off The Grid'.
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Post Malone
Post Malone is another rapper who may potentially appear on the album.
Fans who attended the Las Vegas listening party claimed there was a Post Malone track.
Kanye West abd Post Malone previously collaborated together on another verision to his track 'Fade', which also features Ty Dolla Sign.
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Tyler, The Creator
A clip of Tyler, the creator and Kanye West in the studio sparked ideas that the pair have collaborated on a track for the album.
In the clip, Kanye is sat down while Tyler is bopping his head to a track. The video also teased an alleged tracklist for the project.
Tyler, The Creator and Kanye West together in the studio this week 👀 pic.twitter.com/VyhGlfFV6O
— Odd Future Fans (@itsOddFuture) July 19, 2021In the alleged tracklist, Tyler, the creator is on Kanye's song titled 'Come To Life' – the lead track of the album.
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Lil Baby
Lil Baby has been rumoured to be on a track called "Hurricane" with Kanye West.
The track is produced by DJ Khalil, Nascent, FnZ, BoogzDaBeast& Ronny J.
It will be the first time the two rappers collaborate on a track.
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Baby Keem
Californian rapper Baby Keem is allegedly on a joint collaboration track with Travis Scott from Kanye West's 'Donda' album.
The pair are rumoured to be on 'Ye's track 'Praise God'.
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Travis Scott
Travis Scott may potentially be on Kanye West's album 'Donda', on a track with Baby Keem.
He is rumoured to be on a song titled 'Praise God'.
Travis Scott and Kanye have collaborated a few times, with their latest release 'Wash Us In The Blood' which dropped last year June.
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Playboi Carti
Playboy Carti is said to be on 'Donda', Kanye's new album. The rapper is rumoured to be on a track together.
The pair have previously heavily collaborated together, on tracks like 'Go2DaMoon' and Kanye executive produced Carti's album 'Whole Lotta Red'.
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Ty Dolla $ign
Ty Dolla $ign is another artist who is suspected to be on the album. He allegedly has a track with Kanye West titled 'Welcome to My Life '
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Jay-Z
Fans were surprised to hear that Jay-Z will feature on Kanye West's album, as the pair had had tensions between them.
However, they have put their beef to an end with a new collaborative track.
In a snippet which went viral online, Jay-Z even teased a possible sequel to the duo's 2011 collaborative album Watch the Throne.
“This might be the return of the throne" he rapped in the track played at Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium on Thursday (Jul 22).
However, rumours have spread that Kanye has removed the iconic feature - following a DONDA listening event where Jay's verse was absent.
Fans are now fearing this may not be the return of the throne.
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The Weeknd
On Monday (Aug 2) rumours began swirling that The Weeknd may be featuring on Kanye's west's new album.
It was sparked by Kanye's Instagram post – where he shared a screenshot of his phone call list, with multiple calls from the rapper.
Fans are hoping for a collaboration between the two artists. One fan wrote: "YO PLZ COLLAB WITH THE WEEKND😭" while another added "weeknd & Kanye????" in the comment section.
Let's see.
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The Lox
Following their iconic Verzuz Kanye was rumoured to have added a feature from The Lox.
However, fans were outraged after his listening party where it appeared the star feature had been removed.
Kanye removed The LOX ??? he going to hell
— Ahmed 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) August 27, 2021 -
Da Baby
Fans were shocked to see DaBaby had made an appearance at West's Chicago show.
Kanye recently removed their collaboration track off Spotify, sparking rumours that he cut ties with the rapper following the recent controversy after Da Baby made homophobic comments.
However, this is now debated.
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Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson also appeared at Kanye's wild soldier field show, fuelling collaboration rumours.
Kanye West.
— Squirt Reynolds (@SquirtReynoIds) August 27, 2021
Marilyn Manson.
DaBaby.
What the fuck.#DONDA pic.twitter.com/1gjyEfUZ7e -
Shenseea
Fans were shocked that Kanye was accompanied by Jamaican artist Shenseea.
The singer delivered impressive vocals, causing fans to wonder whether she will feature on DONDA.
Shenseea on #DONDA 🇯🇲🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/ggoU6EaSdU
— Ranil (@ranilwallace) August 27, 2021
Kanye West featured more than half of the music industry on his Donda album, see full tracklist, features and producers 👀 #Donda #Kanye #donda pic.twitter.com/7A0CqYBLnu
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