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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron Williams" data-source="post: 5978"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kanye-west-1.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=435&amp;crop=1" alt="kanye west sells tank" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageA little under a month ago, Kanye West <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-donda-2-release-date/" target="_blank">announced the release date</a> for his next album, Donda 2, setting the palindromic February 22 as his target date. Kanye’s had issues with <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-donda-delayed-mixing-mistake/" target="_blank">getting projects out the door on their due dates</a> in the past, so it’s natural to wonder whether Donda 2 continued that pattern. So, has Donda 2 been released yet?Well, the answer is a little more complicated than you might think. For one thing, it might be hard to tell for a while, because just four days before the album’s expected release, Kanye announced that he would not be putting it on DSPs for streaming. Instead, the album will <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-donda-2-only-stem-player/" target="_blank">only be available via his Stem Player device</a>. The gizmo, which operates like any number of other portable midi controllers on the market today, will come preloaded with the album for $200 and can only be purchased from an <a href="https://www.stemplayer.com/" target="_blank">official website</a>.Kanye explained his reasoning in an Instagram post, writing, “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.” With the album coming pre-loaded on a device that would probably take a week to ship, considering the earliest anyone would have known about it was just four days ago, it might be a while before we have concrete confirmation that Donda 2 was released as scheduled.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/has-donda-2-been-released/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aaron Williams, post: 5978"] [IMG alt="kanye west sells tank"]https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kanye-west-1.jpg?w=1024&h=435&crop=1[/IMG] [UWSL]Getty Image[/UWSL] A little under a month ago, Kanye West [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-donda-2-release-date/']announced the release date[/URL] for his next album, [I]Donda 2[/I], setting the palindromic February 22 as his target date. Kanye’s had issues with [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-donda-delayed-mixing-mistake/']getting projects out the door on their due dates[/URL] in the past, so it’s natural to wonder whether [I]Donda 2[/I] continued that pattern. So, has [I]Donda 2[/I] been released yet? Well, the answer is a little more complicated than you might think. For one thing, it might be hard to tell for a while, because just four days before the album’s expected release, Kanye announced that he would not be putting it on DSPs for streaming. Instead, the album will [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-west-donda-2-only-stem-player/']only be available via his Stem Player device[/URL]. The gizmo, which operates like any number of other portable midi controllers on the market today, will come preloaded with the album for $200 and can only be purchased from an [URL='https://www.stemplayer.com/']official website[/URL]. Kanye explained his reasoning in an Instagram post, writing, “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.” With the album coming pre-loaded on a device that would probably take a week to ship, considering the earliest anyone would have known about it was just four days ago, it might be a while before we have concrete confirmation that [I]Donda 2[/I] was released as scheduled. [url="https://uproxx.com/music/has-donda-2-been-released/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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