But, once again, maybe we should have seen it coming. That context is important to keep in mind when considering why Kanye’s 2016 embrace of Trump was so shocking. At the Donda 2 session (and the first session for Donda in summer 2021), he played a number of songs with scratch vocals-incomplete thoughts by a genius who didn’t finish his homework. Pablo was not totally finished when Kanye played it at MSG (he would do ad-libs on “30 Hours” later that night) but at least he played complete songs. But there is a stark contrast between The Life of Pablo event, his first live album unveiling, and his most recent event, the Donda 2 listening session. This was the first time Kanye debuted new music in this setting, and he’s returned to this strategy for every album since. Coodie provides a close-up view, but the footage is not particularly unique-the event was live-streamed and there were tons of press at the moment. The same goes for The Life of Pablo’s listening session. Even though we get a few glimpses of Kanye we’ve never seen before, it’s mostly montages of news clips and interviews most fans have seen. The Life of Pablo Listening Session At MSG For the first 45 minutes of part three, the doc no longer feels intimate. If I had lived in New York, she'd still be here." Even if I stayed in New York, it wouldn't have been like that. and she wound up in a place that would eat her alive. Kanye alludes to his mother’s death on songs like Watch The Throne’s “New Day” where he raps, “And I'll never let his mom move to L.A./Knowing she couldn't take the pressure, now we all pray.” In a 2010 issue of XXL that he guest-edited, he was even more explicit writing, "When I moved to L.A., she moved to L.A. Her death inspired 808s & Heartbreak, though most of the songs and lyrics on 808s deal with Kanye’s breakup with his fiancée, Alexis Phifer. According to reports, Donda died just one day after undergoing breast reduction, tummy tuck, and liposuction procedures. We see some touching footage of Kanye and Donda together, but the film doesn’t give much detail about how she died.
The Death of Donda West The most heartbreaking sequence of the doc is the one we all knew was coming the November 2007 death of Kanye’s mother. Part three highlights how Kanye changed as he became more famous, but some of these tendencies were always there. His comments about slavery foreshadow his infamous “slavery was a choice” comments at TMZ. But watching Kanye ranting at the audience at a charity event while his mother stands nearby, that argument doesn’t hold up as well.Īt the Donda Foundation event, Kanye answers a fan’s softball question about how Graduation will change the game with the type of cluttered rant you’d expect to hear today-not the fluid responses we heard in the first two parts. 2007 Kanye West Foundation Fundrasier Fans and critics have been quick to psycho-analyze Kanye from afar and one common line of thought is that things went off the rails after his mother died.
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