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Fans of Ye, the artist formally known as Kanye West, will have to spend a little more money to get their hands on the rapper’s upcoming album.
Ye recently announced that Donda 2ย will only be available on his own platform, called the Stem Player. It costs $200 or P10,276.50.
He said on Instagram, “Not on Apple, Amazon, Spotify, or YouTube. Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. Itโs time to free music from this oppressive system. Itโs time to take control and build our own.”
Photo by: Pieter-Jannick Dijkstra (Kanye West & Jay-Z | Watch The Throne Tour | Gelredome Arnhem, Netherlands | June 15)
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The Stem Player looks like a Bluetooth speaker. According to the website, it allows you to customize any song and split it into “stems.”
It adds that a purchase “ships with Donda.”
Here are the device’s other features:
- Control vocals, drums, bass, and samples
- Isolate parts
- Add effects
- 4 channel lossless audio mixing
- Real-time loop and speed control
- Tactile effects
- Save, playback, and download mixes
- Update content and software
Donda 2ย will be the sequel to Donda, Ye’s 10th studio album that was released last year. Dondaย has the singles “Hurricane,” “Life of the Party,” “Believe What I Say,” and “Off the Grid.” It features guest vocals from the Sunday Service Choir, Jay-Z, Playboi Carti, Lil Baby, the Weeknd, Vory, DaBaby, Baby Keem, and Marilyn Manson.
Upon its release, Donda scored the most first-day streams for an album in 2021 on both Apple Music and Spotify.
Donda 2ย will be released on February 22, 2022. Here’s a look at the tracklist, which Ye released last week:
- “Security” (feat. Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg)
- “Lift Me Up”
- “Get Lost”
- “Pablo” (feat. Drake)
- “True Love”
- “Keep It Burnin'” (feat. John Legend & JAY-Z)
- “Broken Road”
- “I’m Finna Love Me”
- “Closed For Business” (feat. Scarface)
- “We Did It Kid”
- “Flowers” (feat. Future)
- “Maintenance” (feat. Lil Wayne)
- “530” (feat. 2 Chainz)
- “Mr. Miyagi” (feat. The Game, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz & Pusha T)
- “Selfish” (feat. Chris Brown)
- “First Time”
- “Louie Bags” (feat. Moneybagg Yo)
- “Candyland”
- “Sci-Fi” (feat. Beanie Siegel & JAY-Z)
- “Do I Look Happy?”
- “Things Change”
- “City of Gods (Stem Version)” [feat. Fivio Foreign & Alicia Keys]
The albums are named after Ye’s mother, Donda West.
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