DONDA 2

CHAZZJAZZ

This album is sad. Just sad. It starts out good with TRUE LOVE and BROKEN ROAD and then it all kinda goes to shit after GET LOST. Almost the entire album is Ai. I get Ye’s grills made it ‘hard to rap’ and added a lisp. But Jesus Christ who decided to get permanent grills without thinking if he wanted to rap again or not? In 2022 when this album was supposed to be out, it was unfinished. Period. Minimal work and a short tracklist only released on the Stem Player. But then digital nas and Ye decided to revisit it, rush it and Ai it to oblivion, and give us this totally lazy album. The reason why it had so much potential in my opinion was because tracks like PABLO, 530, JESSE, HAPPY, SECURITY, MR MIYAGI, TOO EASY, and WE DID IT on paper are good, but just not release level tracks (And honestly any criticism I have towards this album doesn’t apply to 530 since it’s one of the only tracks with no AI and is a better version of 530 on VULTURES 2.) But digital nas’s mixing and him rushing it is just what messes a good amount of it up. And to address the elephant in the room. This album was released when Ye was in a manic bipolar episode. Now I’m not going to judge his actions because he doesn’t even remember anything he did back then today. At the end of the day this is just an album. Otherwise. This seems final, and it’s not decent. Half par I’ll give it.

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