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By ANI

WASHINGTON: Grammy-winning rapper Ye aka Kanye West shared a priceless throwback picture featuring his mother Donda, a day after her death anniversary.

A day after the death anniversary of his mother Donda, the rapper shared a throwback photo featuring the mother-son duo, on his Instagram handle.

In the snap, West’s mother could be seen holding him in her arms as they both smile at each other. The 44-year-old left the caption section empty. The post received more than one million views within a few hours of being shared.

Donda West died at the age of 58 in 2007 following complications from plastic surgery.

For the unversed, earlier this year, West named his 10th studio album ‘Donda’ after her. Dedicating a track titled ‘Losing My Family’ to his mother, the rapper even used Donda’s original voiceover offering words of advice about love and marriage, at the beginning of the track.

West’s hit 2005 track ‘Hey Mama’ is also a tribute to his mother.

By IANS

NEW YORK: Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ has become his 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.

The massive 27-track effort topped the chart with the biggest sales week of any album this year, earning 309,000 equivalent album units for the week ending September 2, according to Billboard.

These numbers include 357.4 million on-demand streams and 37,000 in pure sales. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ previously held the record for the charting week ending June 5 with 295,000 equivalent album units. Kanye’s latest offering also earned the largest streaming week of the year for an album, surpassing J. Cole’s ‘The Off-Season’, which earned 325.05 million on-demand streams during its May debut week.

Kanye’s 10th No. 1 album makes him the first artiste who debuted this century to score, well, 10 No. 1 albums.

It also makes him the seventh artiste in history to have 10 chart-topping albums. The Beatles have the most with 19, Jay-Z isn’t too far behind with 14, and Bruce Springsteen, Barbara Streisand, Eminem, and Elvis Presley also have 10 or more. Drake and Taylor Swift both have nine, with Drizzy expected to match Kanye’s accomplishment with ‘Certified Lover Boy’, as it’s projected to chart next week with 575,000-625,000 album-equivalent units as mentioned in Complex.com.

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West recently claimed that his record label released his new album titled ‘Donda’ without his approval.

Hours after West’s 10th studio album went live on streaming services, the rapper took to Instagram and shared a post claiming that Universal Music Group, parent company to the label Def Jam, didn’t have his permission to release it.

“Universal put my album out without my approval. And they blocked ‘Jail 2’ from being on the album,” the hitmaker wrote.

It is not clear what West means by “blocked” since there are songs titled ‘Jail’ and ‘Jail Pt 2’ as the second and 24th tracks, respectively, on the 27-song LP.

Variety reported that ‘Jail Pt 2’ was originally unavailable to stream when the album was first released at 8 am ET, but it was later added to the tracklist around 1 pm ET.

Representatives for Universal had no comment on the allegation, but sources at the company called it “preposterous.”

Typically, when a song on an album is blocked from streaming on a service such as Spotify or others, the song has not been cleared legally because of a copyright conflict or similar issue.

The track, and its counterpart ‘Jail’, has been a cause for controversy over the past few days, as the former features both Marilyn Manson, who has been accused of sexual assault by several women and DaBaby, who made headlines earlier in the month with his homophobic comments.

Both Manson and DaBaby made appearances at West’s fourth ‘Donda’ listening event on last Thursday in Chicago, causing immediate backlash on social media.

The features on ‘Donda’ have become a focal point on social media ever since it was revealed at the listening event on Thursday that Jay-Z’s verse on ‘Jail’ had been replaced by a feature from DaBaby (Jay-Z’s verse has since been reinstated).

On Sunday, rapper Soulja Boy made it known on social media that his verse had been cut from the track ‘Remote Control’, and Pusha T also appears to no longer be featured on the album’s titular track.

West originally announced ‘Donda’, named after his late mother Donda West, in 2020. The release date was eventually announced as July 23, 2021, before being moved to August 7, 2021. It finally dropped overnight on Sunday.

The rapper’s mother died at the age of 58 following plastic surgery complications in 2007.