Kanye West did a livestream Thursday night on
Apple Music of the latest edition of
DONDA at
Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
He began playing the album about 90 minutes before it was scheduled to be released. The set bore a different track order from its previous incarnation and included a few new songs, one of which features
Lil Yachty and
Lil Durk, another
The Weeknd and a third
Jay Electronica and
The Lox.
West closed the event by flying above the stadium floor to the strains of the single “No Child Left Behind.”
But when the proceedings cracked the midnight hour,
DONDA (
G.O.O.D./
Def Jam) was nowhere to be found on any platform. As with anything involving Ye, it was unclear what would happen next; nor was it apparent when the album would actually be delivered.
West's first
DONDA event, on 7/22, broke the record for Apple's biggest global livestream, with more than 3.3m viewers. The mercurial star has not left the Atlanta stadium since then, having turned the facility's locker rooms into a studio.
