it wasn’t an album single

just a promotional single

You can tell Ye barely put any effort putting this album together

Which is crazy because he had the best label roster at that time. It could’ve been a classic collab album

def a favorite line off that album for me next to 2 chainz on mercy and ye on clique

i know spike lee gon kill me but lemme finish

how can you be s***ting on cruel summer's production when donda is digital nas fart beats with horrific stock organs for 80% of the record

thinking ill have any of them in the audience

Ye
Cudi
Pusha
Mos Def
Common
Q Tip
Big Sean
Teyana Taylor
Mr Hudson
John Legend

With that roster, Cruel Summer should’ve been incredible. Ye just wasn’t locked in enough to elevate the album to something special

Cruel Winter when

scrapped alongside a short film for the album that we’ll never see

the sky is blue

Ye was trying to make the music appeal to a mainstream audience which worked

But he could’ve just went MBDTF & let everyone shine in their own right

Better than every Drake album for sure

Donda was cruel winter

they are updated songs and they are different from the version released as a single

for example New God Flow now has a ghostface feature and a different outro

Like 4 songs and I’d say it worked on Praise God, Jesus Lord

Pure Souls and Junya are ass tho

Luckily the OG Piano version of Pure Souls exists

He definitely came through with some hits

But yea he severely underused the talent on his roster . GOOD had one of the most stacked rosters on any label ever

hold on i ain’t tryna stunt man

but the yeezys jumped over the jumpman

for sure. the only problem with Cruel Summer was the 5 best songs on the album all came out before the album did.

If we got that full project at once the discourse on it is very different.

Anyone that agrees is a singles listener

Easily

Yeah he was trying to make an investment with this album not a classic unfortunately . Alternate timeline with Yasiin and Q-tip on airy avant garde production

Yep it’s a real shame he never took the time to really do something special with the GOOD label

A lot of missed potential

Thats interesting as I seem to remember it as a collection of anthems and ballads with beautiful music contributions from Mike Dean, Warryn Campbell, Jeff Bhasker, Ojivolta, 88 Keys, Gesafflestein, Jay Electronica, Kid Cudi and Shenseea

Donda out now !

Chalking up Donda as a Digital Nas record is a level of obtuse that’s unprecedented even for Kanye discussion sheesh