Donda 2 Review

He announced it, played it in a stadium, then declined to put it on streaming services and sold it through a hardware player he had a stake in. What people heard was a set of sketches. Beats loop for two minutes with a hook idea and no verse, guest features arrive unmixed, songs stop mid phrase, and the running order changed between versions because there was no finished version to fix.

Security has a genuinely good bassline. True Love has a Cudi vocal that a real song could have been built around. Everything else sounds like a hard drive rather than a record. The writing, where there is any, is the worst he has released, largely bitter settling of domestic scores delivered without craft or distance. Even judged generously as a work in progress, nothing here suggests a finished version was close. It is the one entry in this catalogue that fails on every axis at once.