Kanye West Rushed ‘Donda’ So He Could Release It Before Drake’s ‘Clb’ Says Album Collaborator
A lot of social media users seem to believe Kanye West album felt incomplete. Now a few sources are telling why some fans might feel that way.
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According to legendary rock musician Todd Rundgren, who worked on majority of the Donda album says Ye wanted to get his album out as quickly as possible so he could drop it before Drake’s Certified Lover Boy.
Rundgren, recently had an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock and shared, “I realized why they hurriedly wrapped the whole thing up and put out what is obviously really raw, unprocessed stuff,” he said. “It’s because Drake was running the whole process. He was too afraid that Drake would one-up him, so he hurried up and released the album the weekend before Drake could get his out. And in the end, Drake ate his lunch anyway.”
Todd Rundgren isn’t the only source to reveal Kanye West was keeping up with Drake’s moves while recording Donda. In July, Consequence typed in a deleted tweet Yeezy was “looking for [Drake’s] drop date” before dropping Donda — perhaps could be a reason it had multiple delays and sudden release.
Kayne hasn’t came out and spoken on this topic himself yet, but it still leaves room for a great debate. Even though it earned Kanye his ninth straight No. 1 album with more than 300,000 first-week sales, Donda didn’t come close to Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which spiked to the top of the Billboard 200 after pushing 613,000 units in its first week — the largest sales week of 2021.
According to Todd he started to become very frustrated with Kanye because he wasn’t sure if the things they were working on would be used.
“When it got into the homestretch in July, I just said, ‘That’s enough for me. I have no idea whether any of this is being used,’” he explained. “There is a possibility that I’m actually in there somewhere. There’s so much junk in that record!”
He ended off saying, “[Kanye West] is a shoe designer… He’s just a dilettante at this point. Nobody would regularly make records like that unless they had stupid money to throw around. Nobody rents a stadium to make a record in. Nobody flies in the entire world of Hip Hop just to croak one syllable, just so you can say that everybody was on it.”