Kanye West has generated quite the noise behind the upcoming release of his highly anticipated album, “DONDA.” For longer than the entirety of the summer of 2021, Kanye has been going back and forth on his social media accounts hinting at possible release dates for his latest project and seems to be putting it off in order to make the drop memorable. On August 28, 2021, Yeezy held the second album listening event in which the rapper made the executive decision to build an exact replica of the childhood home that he grew up in. This event took place in the heart of Chicago, Illinois inside of the Soldier Field where a crowd of over 40,000 people showed up for the exclusive sound “DONDA” has to offer.
This specific project took weeks to fully fulfill as Kanye assembled his own group of carpenters to recreate an identical replica of the artist’s childhood home. The South Shore house was bought out by the 44-year-old rapper back in the 1980s, which he would later sell for an unknown sum of profit in 2004. However, about halfway through last year (2020) Yeezy reportedly re-purchased the house for a total of $225,000; there have been no reports of a direct correlation between this purchase and the Donda listening event.
The Atlanta rapper began the affair with the word “Donda” repeatedly being spoken into the mic over a soothing beat. Kanye later informed his audience that the beat in which “Donda” was being spoken was actually going along at the speed of his mother’s last recorded heartbeats. His beloved mother passed away in November 2007 from a “coronary artery disease on top of multiple post-operative factors due to or as a consequence of liposuction and mammoplasty. After the event had concluded, Yeezy dropped the highly anticipated album on all platforms as he promised.