Kanye West invited Marilyn Manson and DaBaby to the new album listening party
The process of releasing Donda, Kanye West's new album, is taking increasingly complex paths. At the third listening party, stadium events where the rapper and businessman plays the songs from the album in front of the public, he invited Marilyn Manson, DaBaby and who seemed to emulate his ex? wife Kim Kardashian. In the center of the Soldier Field stadium in Chicago, the artist built a replica of his childhood home as if it were a church and there, among guests who did nothing but accompany him, he put on the most imposing show to anticipate the album . That, on the other hand, still has no clear departure date after several postponements.
However, the musical is left aside before the character of the guests and the way in which they appeared. Marilyn Manson - who showed up in his makeup in 2001 - was accused by numerous women of sexual abuse. Evan Rachel Wood, for example, recounted the torments caused by the singer since she was a teenager. "He horribly abused me for years," said the actress. “He brainwashed me and manipulated me into submission. I'm here to expose this dangerous man and draw attention to the many industries that have allowed him to do it, before he ruins more lives. "
DaBaby, by his side, is in the eye of the music industry storm since his comments at the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami. There, between topic and topic, the rapper had homophobic comments, attacking the LGBTIQ community and HIV carriers. From that, he was discharged from many festivals, colleagues who had collaborated with him took off and so many others came out at the crossroads. At Kanye West's listening party, in one of the songs that had already been heard and in which Jay Z participates, DaBaby contributes some verses where he states that they canceled it: "I said only one thing that they did not like and they threw me to the I trash it. "
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In this context, Kanye West may be trying to build a narrative that moves forward with the listening parties. The first, at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, placed him alone in the center of the stadium, with his face covered, walking there. The second, in the same place, began with a transmission as a preview from a room devoid of luxuries in which it was said that the rapper and producer lived to finish the album; During the listening, he was in the center of the stadium, also with his face covered, but doing exercises as if he were enclosed in a single space. That, until the night was completed with illumination and an ascent towards the sky. Literally.
However, this last party went further. Back in his native Chicago, Kanye West built a replica of the house he grew up in and from there, sitting on the front staircase, played the songs. That's where both Manson and DaBaby showed up, with the house fenced off and with what they emulated to be incidents of people he wanted to enter. The album advanced, at the height of the night a girl in a Balenciaga wedding dress entered and pretended to be Kim Kardashian. By the end, in the last song, West was shown sitting in a room that also resembled the one he set up in Atlanta. First the mattress, then the walls, and finally him, everything caught fire. Meanwhile, the song repeated as a mantra: "I am finally free."
