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Denzel Curry Shares His Honest And Unfiltered Opinion About ‘Certified Lover Boy’ And ‘Donda’

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Two of 2021’s biggest selling albums were Drake’s Certified Lover Boy and Kanye West’s Donda. The former was the Toronto rap star’s chart-topper full-length release since 2020’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes and one that gave him another No. 1 single with “Way 2 Sexy.” On the flip side, Kanye’s Donda gave him his tenth solo No. 1 album and two Grammy wins for “Hurricane” with The Weeknd and “Jail” with Jay-Z. Despite the accolades that the albums received, Certified Lover Boy and Donda were not the most critically acclaimed bodies of work in 2021. In a recent post on Twitter, Denzel Curry, who recently called himself the “best rapper alive,” gave his honest opinion about the albums.

“Donda and CLB could’ve been better,” Curry wrote. “Yall n****s rich and got the greatest musicians at your disposal.” He continued in second post, adding, “The artwork for both projects were booty.” Unsurprisingly enough, some fans objected to Curry’s with one saying in part, “Donda and CLB washes anything this n**** has ever dropped.” Curry promptly replied, “D*cccccck Eataaaaah.”

Curry would eventually move on from the conversation, but not without sharing one last thought. “There’s people that don’t even listen to my music but agree with what I’m saying so let’s get it,” he wrote. “I’m a real one f*ck wit me.”

You can view Curry’s tweets above.

Kanye West Gets Nostalgic In His Deepfake ‘Life Of The Party’ Video

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Kanye West’s love for his mother is very well-documented, but he will always take any moment to pay more homage to Ms. Donda. This time, he did so through the sentimental “Life Of The Party” video which debuted on the evening of Mother’s Day. The two-minute, 39-second visual functions more as a photo album, showing photos of young Kanye in school or with his family. Instead of static photos, each shows a different iteration of the Chicago artist rapping along to the lyrics of the record via deepfake technology.

Andre 3000 and his verse are noticeably absent, perhaps due to the drama surrounding “Life Of The Party” when the world first heard it on OVO Sound Radio. While that version of the song featured a heartfelt verse from one half of Outkast, West took the opportunity to throw more jabs at his formal rival Drake.

The “Life Of The Party” video is also set to appear in the first TV commercial for Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga. According to a press release, new products from the collaboration will be shown in the commercial before being made available to purchase on May 25 through the Yeezy Gap website, as well as Farfetch, Mytheresa, and Luisa Via Roma.

YE Releases “Life of the Party” Music Video Featuring a Look at Forthcoming Gap/Balenciaga Pieces

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YE Releases "Life of the Party" Music Video Featuring a Look at Forthcoming Gap/Balenciaga Pieces

YE has officially released his “Life of the Party” music video. The new release is from the deluxe edition of the 2021 album DONDA.

The new release brings in moments of Ye’s past and future, including images from his childhood and pieces of his forthcoming collection with Gap that is engineered by Balenciaga creative.

The new YeezyGap collection will be available on YeezyGap.com and the Balenciaga online partners.

You can see the various images and watch the entire video below.

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Kanye West Is Being Sued By A Pastor Over The Song ‘Come To Life’ From HIs Album ‘Donda’

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A Texas pastor is suing Kanye West for using part of one of his sermons without permission, according to TMZ. Bishop David Paul Moten is sampled on the Donda song “Come To Life,” which uses about 70 seconds of the sermon looped throughout the song. Moten’s lawsuit calls the uncleared sample an example of musicians “willfully and egregiously sampling sound recordings of others without consent or permission.” The lawsuit also includes Kanye’s label, G.O.O.D Music, and its parent entities Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group. Donda, released in August 2021, sold 309,000 equivalent units, topping the Billboard 200 in its first week.

Kanye was previously sued over a religious sample in 2019. Andrew and Shirley Green, the adoptive parents of a little girl whose prayer is sampled on “Ultralight Beam” from The Life Of Pablo, sued Kanye for pulling the audio from a viral video on social media. Although Kanye reached out to the girl’s biological mother Alice Johnson for permission to use the clip, the Greens, the girl’s legal guardians, said they were never contacted, and that Johnson was never given a written license agreement or payment.

More recently, a music rights company, Declan Colgan Music Ltd., sued Universal over a sample of the band King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man” from the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy single “Power.” DCM said that UMG has been underpaying the agreed-upon 5.33-percent cut from streams.

Is Kanye West Planning a ‘DONDA’ Tour?

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Kanye West has released two D.O.N.D.A. albums and did zero D.O.N.D.A. tours. That could all change soon as social media highlights there could be a possible tour to go along with the two albums dedicated to his late mother, Donda West.

Someone from the Kanye camp leaked a photo of a large black poster with white print that reads, “DONDA TOURING,” with an additional line that says, “D.O.N.D.A.,” not far below it.

No details about the photo or a possible tour have been released yet.

If Ye does tour, this will be his first tour since 2016, when he went on The Saint Pablo Tour.

The GOOD Music C.E.O. released the first installment of DONDA in August of 2021. He dropped the sequel in February of this year. This year, Ye released DONDA exclusively through Kanye’s Stem player.

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2022 Billboard Music Awards Finalists Announced: The Weeknd, Doja Cat, Kanye, and More

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