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Donda
Studio album by Kanye West
Released	August 29, 2021 (2021-08-29)
Recorded	August 2018 September 2019 – August 2021
Studio	Island Sound (Honolulu) Bighorn Mountain Ranch (Cody, Wyoming) Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta)
Genre	Hip hop gospel pop trap progressive rap
Length	108:49
Label	GOOD Def Jam
Producer	Kanye West 30 Roc 88 Keys AllDay Arrow Sunday AyoAA Boi-1da BoogzDaBeast Cubeatz Digital Nas DJ Khalil DrtWrk E.Vax Gesaffelstein Jeff Bhasker Louis Bell Mike Dean Ojivolta Ronny J Swizz Beatz TT Audi Warryn Campbell
Kanye West chronology
Jesus Is Born (2019) Donda (2021)
Singles from Donda
"Hurricane" Released: September 14, 2021

Donda is the tenth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on August 29, 2021, by GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings. The album was initially set for release on July 24, 2020, but was delayed multiple times. In July 2021, West set up a provisional recording studio at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, where listening events were held on July 22 and August 5. A third listening event was held at Soldier Field in Chicago on August 26; after the events, West continued to make alterations to the tracklist.

Donda is primarily a hip hop and gospel album, drawing upon elements of West's previous work, including progressive rap, pop and trap, as well as influences from boom bap, drill, electropop, hip house and industrial hip hop. It has been described as both minimalist and maximalist, with a reduced presence of drums in the production, which was handled by West, BoogzDaBeast, E.Vax, Gesaffelstein, Jeff Bhasker, and Mike Dean, among others. The album features vocal contributions from multiple artists and is darker in tone and lyrical content than West's prior efforts, exploring topics such as religion, addiction, ego, West's bipolar disorder and relationships with his family, his divorce from Kim Kardashian, and his late mother Donda West, after whom the album is named.

Donda was met with mixed reviews upon release. Many critics felt the album was overlong and lacking in coherence, though some deemed it superior to his previous albums Ye (2018) and Jesus Is King (2019). The album also garnered controversy due to guest appearances by DaBaby and Marilyn Manson on the track "Jail, Pt. 2", due to their respective allegations of homophobia and abuse. Donda debuted at number one on several charts, including the U.S. Billboard 200, where it became West's tenth consecutive number-one album. It also marked one of the biggest opening-day streaming tallies in the history of Spotify and Apple Music. "Hurricane" will be released as the album's lead single on September 14, 2021.

Background and recording

On November 18, 2019, West announced on Twitter that he was working with Dr. Dre on a project entitled Jesus Is King Part II. On November 27, 2019, American producer Ronny J, confirmed that he had recently been in Wyoming to work on the album. During a Sunday service performance in Lynwood, California in December 2019, West stated that he had always wished he could collaborate with Dr. Dre and added, "Who knew all I had to do was do an album for God and then Dr. Dre would start mixing my beats? Spend your time on God, and he'll handle the rest." That same month, rapper Consequence confirmed that he was in Wyoming when asked about recording for Jesus Is King Part II. In February 2020, American producer and Dr. Dre associate Dawaun Parker alluded to his involvement on the album.

In March 2020, West recorded new music in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, before returning to Wyoming with his family due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That same month, Pusha T stated in a Discord interview that he had been recording with West recently. Pusha T was planning to meet with West on March 16, 2020, to finish up a project, but cited "flights slowing down" due to COVID travel restrictions as the reason for a delay. On March 12, 2020, Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine were spotted in Wyoming recording for West's album. Westside Gunn would later confirm the collaboration in an interview with Elliot Wilson on Tidal.

On May 25, 2020, cinematographer Arthur Jafa revealed that he was working on video material with West for a single from a "forthcoming album" titled God's Country during a conversation with fashion designer Michèle Lamy in an Instagram Live stream. On June 26, 2020, following the announcement of a collaboration between West's fashion company Yeezy and clothing retailer Gap, West launched the #WestDayEver promotional campaign on Twitter to announce different projects throughout the day. One of the projects was a music video for "Wash Us in the Blood" with rapper Travis Scott, directed by Jafa, which was released four days later following a teaser on Twitter in which West officially announced the album, at that point still titled God's Country. The song was set to be included on Donda, but did not appear on the final track listing. On July 13, West shared a snippet on Twitter of a song from the album, titled "Donda", which featured a spoken word introduction by his late mother and was accompanied by a short video featuring assorted clips of West, among others.

On July 18, along with a preliminary track list, West announced the title had been changed to Donda in honor of his late mother, Donda West. West announced a July 24 release date, which he eventually missed. On July 25, 2020, West tweeted an image of the album cover, which was later replaced in favor of an adaptation of a red Louise Bourgeois drawing from her series Les têtes bleues et les femmes rouges.

On July 28, West flew out Lil Baby to Wyoming to work with him on Donda, after stating "Lil baby my favorite rapper but won't do a song with me". Lil Baby ended up recording his verse for "Hurricane" after KayCyy suggested he should record on it. The original version of "Hurricane" was leaked online as an original song for the scrapped project Yandhi, with different verses from Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Big Sean, 6ix9ine, KayCyy, and Ant Clemons; however, none of their verses made it to the final cut and were replaced by Lil Baby and the Weeknd. West sent out a series of tweets about his relationship with Universal Music Group in September 2020, mostly addressing his desire to buy his master recordings back from them. The rapper asserted that these efforts were obstructed by his signed contracts, suceeding this by tweeting multiple images that supposedly showed the contracts.

On September 26, West released a 39-second snippet of a track titled "Believe What I Say" on his Twitter account. On October 16, West released a song titled "Nah Nah Nah", calling it his presidential campaign's theme song. On November 13, West released a remix of "Nah Nah Nah" featuring rappers DaBaby and 2 Chainz. Both the original song and its remix feature various references to his presidential run. On November 23, Consequence expressed enthusiasm about the album, describing it as "fire".

On March 7, 2021, Cyhi the Prynce stated in an interview with VladTV that West had once again begun working on the album amid his divorce from Kim Kardashian.

On July 17, Consequence posted a video of West in the studio with Tyler, the Creator on Instagram. The caption of the post suggested a late 2021 album release. On July 19, American rapper and friend of West Pusha T announced on Instagram that West would be holding a listening event for the album on July 22 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Beats Electronics then premiered a commercial during game six of the 2021 NBA Finals with athlete Sha'Carri Richardson, edited and scored by West using the track "No Child Left Behind". French producer Gesaffelstein later stated that he produced the song, which featured Cory Henry playing the organ. Immediately following the commercial's debut, Def Jam Recordings confirmed the album's July 23 release date and revealed that the listening event in Atlanta would be globally livestreamed on Apple Music. The album ultimately remained unreleased on that date.

Soulja Boy originally recorded a verse for the track "Remote Control" featuring Young Thug, although he was ultimately not included on the final version of the song. Following the album's release, Soulja Boy shared a snippet of his verse on Instagram, with the caption of the post saying "Fuck Kanye". Fellow rapper André 3000 also recorded a verse for an unreleased track entitled "Life of the Party", which had been previewed at a listening event for Donda in Las Vegas. The song was leaked by Canadian musician Drake amidst a feud between him and West. West disses the musician on his verse, while André 3000 longs for his deceased mother. Responding to the leak, André 3000 recalled how West reached out to him about "being a part" of the album and he was "inspired by his idea to make a musical tribute to his mom", feeling it to be appropriate "support the Donda concept by referencing my own mother, who passed away in 2013". The rapper believed the choice of making a clean album to be "beautiful", though was unaware when creating his verse and since "an edited 'clean' format" would fail without the original available, he had to be removed from the final release. André 3000 also insisted that West's Drake diss was absent when he contributed to the track, calling it "unfortunate that was released in this way and two artists that I love are going back and forth".

Release and promotion

In late July 2021, West's representatives announced an August 6 release date, which was later confirmed via a Beats by Dre commercial and on West's Apple Music livestream. On August 5, 2021, a pre-order for the album was launched on iTunes, revealing it to feature 24 songs, along with an August 7 release date, which was later revised to August 13. Conflictingly, Apple Music displayed the release date to be August 15, before one set for five days later appeared on the service. On August 25, 2021, West announced the Donda Stem Player, a standalone music player that would allow users to remix the album's songs using their stems. The player is to be produced in collaboration with Kano Computing. On August 27, 2021, Donda's release date experienced another pushback on Apple Music, setting it to coincide with the release of Drake's sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy on September 3. It was speculated on social media that the delay was intentional to increase competition between the two artists.

Donda was eventually released on August 29, 2021, succeeding several delays during that month. The song "Jail, Pt. 2" was originally absent and only appeared on the Spotify version of the album as an inaccessible track due to DaBaby's manager not having cleared his verse at the time of release, being displayed as "unavailable". Five hours after the album's official release, West claimed that Universal Music had released Donda without his approval and blocked "Jail, Pt. 2" from appearing on the album. Apple Music later replaced the original release with a version that included the song and Spotify later followed. Universal Music Group denied that they had either released the album without West's approval or blocked the release of "Jail, Pt. 2", with an anonymous source at the company calling his claims "preposterous".

In its first day of release, Donda earned the second-biggest global Spotify debut for album streams ever, with approximately 100 million streams, and broke the record for biggest first day streams of 2021 on Spotify, surpassing Olivia Rodrigo's Sour. The album also set a new record by reaching number-one on Apple Music's top albums chart in 152 countries in its first day, and earned the third-biggest first day debut streams for an album. West and Donda broke the 2021 record for the most-streamed artist and album in one day on Apple Music, while 19 of the top-20 tracks on the service's Top 100 Global songs chart were from the album. Donda amassed 60 million first day streams in the US on Apple Music, setting a streaming record for 2021 in the country. 25 of the album's tracks debuted with the top-40 of Spotify's U.S. chart, with 10 of them occupying the top-10.

A music video for "Come to Life" was released on September 2, 2021. The video features footage from the album's August 26 listening party, showing West setting on fire then reuniting with Kardashian. On September 14, 2021, "Hurricane" will be sent to American rhythmic contemporary radio stations as the lead single from Donda. The song reached number 12 on the Swedish Singles Chart following the album's release, while it debuted five places higher on the UK Singles Chart. West purchased many large billboards to advertise Donda in Drake's hometown of Toronto during September 2021, outnumbering the ones used for Certified Lover Boy on the day of its release.

Listening events

On July 19, 2021, it was announced that West would hold a listening event for Donda, titled "Kanye West Presents: A Donda Listening Event", at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 22, 2021. Following the listening event, West had taken up temporary residence in one of the stadium's locker rooms, converting it into a recording studio to finish the recording and mixing with Mike Dean. Videos and photos posted to social media also showed featured artists Playboi Carti and 2 Chainz recording vocals in the locker room a day before the listening event. Jay-Z allegedly recorded his verse mere hours before the listening event began.

A second listening event for the album at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, titled "Kanye West Presents: The Donda Album Release", took place on August 5, 2021. Following the August 5 listening event, Kid Cudi was reported to be featuring on two tracks: "Moon" and "Remote Control", alongside Don Toliver and Young Thug respectively. However, Kid Cudi was only included on the final version of "Moon" on the album.

On August 18, 2021, West announced a third listening event for the album scheduled for August 26, 2021, at Soldier Field in Chicago, titled "Kanye West Presents: The Donda Album Experience". It was subsequently announced by West's manager that the album would be released the day after the listening event on August 27. The performance included a replica of West's childhood home, appearances by Marilyn Manson, Don Toliver, Shenseea, Travis Scott, DaBaby, and the son of Black Gangster Disciple Nation founder Larry Hoover Sr., and West setting himself on fire, then later remarrying Kim Kardashian. On August 31, 2021, it was reported by the Chicago Sun-Times that the replica was used because Chicago's Buildings Department did not allow West to move the home from its street address, as originally intended. The department explained how moving a home in the city "is a very technical process that requires structural engineer reports and multiple city permits", revealing the denial of West's request was due to "no permit application ha been received to excavate and move the vacant property" while it was also in Demolition Court.

During the album's listening events, guest appearances were revealed including Syleena Johnson, Pusha T, The World Famous Tony Williams, Don Toliver, Lil Baby, the Weeknd, Rooga, Baby Keem, Travis Scott, Lil Yachty, Playboi Carti, Lil Durk, Vory, Fivio Foreign, Kid Cudi, Young Thug, 070 Shake, Chris Brown, Roddy Ricch, Conway the Machine, KayCyy Pluto, Westside Gunn, Jadakiss, Jay Electronica, Sheek Louch, Styles P, Pop Smoke, DaBaby, Marilyn Manson, Jay-Z, and the Sunday Service Choir. The reveal of DaBaby and Marilyn Manson as guest features on the album was met with widespread derision due to their allegations of homophobia and abuse, respectively. West had updated Donda after each listening event like he did with his seventh studio album The Life of Pablo (2016), changing content such as the features on songs.

Composition

Donda covers the stylistic groundwork of West's previous work; it has been described as a hip hop, gospel, pop, trap and progressive rap album, drawing influences from drill, hip house and boom bap. Writing for Los Angeles Times, Mikael Wood described the album as blending "the harsh industrial hip-hop of Yeezus, the church-organ gospel of Jesus Is King, the gothic swagger of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the bleeping electro-pop of 808s & Heartbreak." Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic perceived that "stylistic innovation has driven West's career till now, but maybe he conceives of Donda as the album of his life—a capstone, an anthology". However, the album is unusual in his catalog due to its lack of drums, besides a "mere smattering of snares" and "the occasional synth bass to mimic a rhythm section". Donda's integration of gospel music is more subtle than that of West's previous studio album Jesus Is King (2019), instead favoring the use of trap beats and Auto-Tune; Carl Wilson characterized the music as "trap-beats-meet-organ-and-choir" in his review for Slate.

According to Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph, the album is a maximalist hip hop record that follows a "more is more" philosophy through its "gleaming, swooping grooves and several kitchen sinks worth of production". In contrast, Craig Jenkins of Vulture said that Donda's "unifying quality is a subtle minimalism", with prominent silence. Fred Thomas of AllMusic similarly opined that the album is built on "minimal arrangements that linger while feeling eerily unfinished". Jenkins also noticed West's diminshed presence on the record, whose "raps and hooks take up significantly less real estate here than on any album with his name attached to it since G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer". In The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Dwyer wrote that the "gospel flourishes of organ and voices" on Donda are elevated by "passionate yearning". Gigwise writer Charlie Brock depicted that the album "ebbs and flows", being "melancholic and subversive" at some points, and "outlandish and snarling" at others.

Donda was inspired by religion, with many of the tracks being themed around it. Some critics have described the album as sombre, with a darker lyrical content than West's previous works and frequent references to addiction and mental instability, as well as West's ego and family, including his mother Donda West and the collapse of his marriage with Kim Kardashian. Wood summarized the album's lyrical content as "a messy collection of stray thoughts about his mother, about divorce, about God, about the bipolar disorder he's referred to as his superpower". Jon Caramanica wrote for The New York Times that in Donda, West continues to trade off the lyrical focus on self-awareness and wordplay of his earlier material for a more "terse and immediate approach, one that complements his musical shifts toward the industrial and the spiritual", which he started to do in the 2010s. Like his previous album Jesus Is King, Donda has no curse words, with all expletives being edited out.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	5.4/10
Metacritic	53/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	C−
The Daily Telegraph
Exclaim!	7/10
The Guardian
The Independent
NME
Pitchfork	6.0/10
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine

Donda was met with mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 53, based on 19 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album a 5.4 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine praised the album, considering it to be "arguably the most vulnerable and broken that West has allowed himself to appear on record" and "his most unforgiving self-portrait yet." Chris Willman of Variety claimed that its music was "close to unassailable" and praised its pacing besides "those last four completely superfluous remixes". Riley Wallace, writing for Exclaim! considered the album to be " best body of work in recent memory", while criticizing the album's length. Marcus Shorter hailed it as the rapper's best album since his sixth studio album Yeezus (2013) in his review for Consequence, describing it as "ambitious, raw, indulgent, and, after several revisions, a cohesive vision". Rhian Daly of NME felt that although Donda "certainly isn't a rushed job", the record could have improved by "West spending a little less time on it and learning when to let things go", finding there to be a large amount of filler alongside "enough gems" to make the album worthwhile. Reviewing the album for The Daily Telegraph, Ed Power said it "perfectly encapsulates the man himself: ego-driven, brilliant, and utterly exhausting", giving it three out of five stars and writing: "Full of sound and fury it may be – but West's latest ultimately lacks direction."

Jonny Coleman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, gave the album a negative review, calling it a "slog". He elaborated: "It's hard to imagine what this record is supposed to be the soundtrack for. It's not a party record. It doesn't invite introspection. It's not spiritual outside of literal references. It's not really a radio record ... It's disposable and forgettable, like so much of culture spat down to us during COVID." In particular, Coleman felt the album lacked thematic coherence and reverence for West's mother Donda, viewing the album as self-indulgent. Paul Thompson of Rolling Stone, while commenting that Donda is "more considered and musically coherent than anything West has made in the past half-decade", considered the album to be uneven and overlong, with a "radically superior second half". Roisin O'Connor, writing for The Independent, granted the album zero stars for Marilyn Manson's "inexcusable presence" on "Jail, Pt. 2" following multiple sexual assault lawsuits made against him. She said that his appearance "speaks volumes of society's apathy towards rape survivors" and that it left "a sour taste that no number of good beats, gospel choirs or church organs will cleanse." O'Connor also criticized the DaBaby feature due to controversial comments he made earlier in the year about HIV-infected individuals. Tirhakah Love of The Daily Beast called the album an "overinflated mess", criticizing the list of featured artists by remarking that it is a "tribute to mom full of people who hate women."

Commercial performance

Donda debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 after a five-day period of tracking, with 309,000 album-equivalent units that consisted of 272,000 streaming-equivalent album units, 37,000 pure album sales, and less than 1,000 track-equivalent units. The album-equivalent units set a record for the highest amount of 2021, exceeding the 295,000 units amassed by Olivia Rodrigo's Sour. West scored his 10th chart topper on the Billboard 200 with the album, making him one of seven artists to have reached this amount of number-ones on the chart. It also marked West's 10th consecutive album to debut at the summit, tying him with Eminem's record. In Canada, Donda topped the Canadian Albums Chart.

In Oceania, the album entered atop the ARIA Albums chart, standing as West's fourth number-one release on the chart. The debut increased West's number of chart topping weeks to five, alongside giving the rapper his ninth top-10 release on the ARIA Albums chart. 19 of Donda's tracks debuted within the top-50 of the ARIA Singles chart; "Hurricane" charted the highest at number four. The entries surpassed Taylor Swift's milestone of 16 debuts in the top-50, as well as the record held by both Post Malone and Michael Jackson for 17 tracks present within this ranking. Elsewhere, the album also topped the New Zealand Albums chart.

Donda ranked at number one on the midweek album sales chart in the United Kingdom, before debuting at the same position on the UK Albums Chart. It gave West his third chart topper in the UK and stood as his first since Yeezus in 2013. The album pushed 20,000 chart sales, 91 percent of which came from streaming-equivalent units, while the other nine percent came from downloads. In total, Donda accumulated 33.4 million streams in the UK across its 27 tracks. Three of the tracks debuted on the UK Singles Chart, with "Hurricane" attaining the highest position of number seven. The album entered atop the Irish Albums Chart, standing as West's second number-one album in Ireland and his ninth to reach the top-10. Donda opened at the summit of the French Albums chart, becoming West's first number-one album in France and selling 9,476 copies over a five-day tracking period. The album also topped the charts in Belgium's Flanders and Wallonia regions, the Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

Track listing

Notes

• signifies a co-producer
• signifies an additional producer
• "Donda Chant" features vocals by Syleena Johnson
• "Jail" features vocals by Jay-Z, and additional vocals by Sunday Service Choir and Dem Jointz
• "God Breathed" features vocals by Vory
• "Off the Grid" features vocals by Playboi Carti and Fivio Foreign
• "Hurricane" features vocals by Lil Baby and the Weeknd, and additional vocals by KayCyy Pluto
• "Praise God" features vocals by Baby Keem and Travis Scott, and additional vocals by Donda West
• "Jonah" features vocals by Lil Durk and Vory
• "Ok Ok" features vocals by Lil Yachty and Rooga, and additional vocals by Fivio Foreign
• "Junya" features vocals by Playboi Carti
• "Believe What I Say" features additional vocals by Buju Banton, Stalone, and Dem Jointz
• "24" features additional vocals by Sunday Service Choir and KayCyy Pluto
• "Remote Control" features vocals by Young Thug
• "Moon" features vocals by Don Toliver and Kid Cudi
• "Donda" features additional vocals by Tony Williams, Donda West, Sunday Service Choir, MUSYCA Children's Choir, and Stalone
• "Keep My Spirit Alive" features vocals by Conway the Machine and Westside Gunn, and additional vocals by KayCyy Pluto and Royce da 5'9"
• "Jesus Lord" features vocals by Jay Electronica and additional vocals by Larry Hoover, Jr.
• "New Again" features vocals by Chris Brown and additional vocals by Sunday Service Choir
• "Tell the Vision" features vocals by Pop Smoke
• "Lord I Need You" features additional vocals by Sunday Service Choir
• "Pure Souls" features vocals by Roddy Ricch and Shenseea
• "No Child Left Behind" features vocals by Vory
• "Jail, Pt. 2" features vocals by DaBaby and Marilyn Manson, and additional vocals by Sunday Service Choir and Dem Jointz
• "Ok Ok, Pt. 2" features vocals by Rooga and Shenseea, and additional vocals by Fivio Foreign
• "Junya, Pt. 2" features vocals by Playboi Carti and Ty Dolla Sign
• "Jesus Lord, Pt. 2" features vocals by Jay Electronica and The Lox, and additional vocals by Larry Hoover, Jr.

Sample credits

• "Believe What I Say" contains a sample of "Doo Wop (That Thing)", as written and performed by Lauryn Hill for her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998).
• "Remote Control" contains an extract from the 2012 animated film Strawinsky and the Mysterious House.
• "God Breathed" contains an uncredited vocal sample of "Bell Head", written by Liquid Liquid.
• "Heaven and Hell" contains an uncredited sample of "Heaven And Hell Is On Earth", by 20th Century Steel Band.
• "Lord I Need You" contains an uncredited sample of "Make Me Over", written by B.Slade, as performed by Briana Babineaux.

Personnel

Musicians

• Dem Jointz – additional vocals (2, 10, 24)
• Sunday Service Choir – additional vocals (2, 11, 15, 18, 20)
• KayCyy – additional vocals (5, 11, 16)
• Fivio Foreign – additional vocals (8, 25)
• Buju Banton – additional vocals (10)
• Stalone – additional vocals (10, 15)
• MUSYCA Children's Choir – additional vocals (15)
• The World Famous Tony Williams – additional vocals (15)
• Larry Hoover Jr. – additional vocals (17, 27)
• Sam Barsh – keyboards (5)
• Daniel Seeff – keyboards (5)
• John Mease – keyboards (5)
• Cory Henry – organ (11)
• Brandee Younger – harp (12)
• Nikki Grier – choir arrangement (2, 5, 11, 18, 20, 24)
• Jason White – choir arrangement (2, 5, 11, 18, 20, 24)

Technical

• Maurizio "Irko" Sera – mix engineering (all tracks)
• Alejandro Rodriguez-Dawsøn – record engineering (1-9, 11-18, 20-22, 24-27)
• Will Chason – record engineering (1, 4, 6-9, 15, 20, 23, 25-26)
• Gimel Keaton – record engineering (2, 24)
• Josh Berg – record engineering (2-27)
• Mikalai Skrobat – record engineering (2-18, 20-22, 24-27)
• Dem Jointz – record engineering (10, 15)
• Drrique Rendeer – record engineering (4, 13, 17, 27)
• James Kelso – record engineering (4, 13, 17, 27)
• Jonathan Pfzar – record engineering (12, 15, 20, 24)
• Lorenzo Wolff – record engineering (4)
• Shin Kamiyama – record engineering (5)
• Devon Wilson – record engineering (6)
• Nagaris Johnson – record engineering (15)
• Todd Bergman – record engineering (15, 20)
• Kalam Ali Muttalib – record engineering (16)
• Rashade Benani Bevel – record engineering (16)
• Jess Jackson – record engineering (19)
• Scott McDowell – record engineering (23)
• Louis Bell – vocal editing (2-8, 10-12, 14, 16-18, 20-22, 24-25, 27)
• Stef Moro – mix assistance (3, 22)

Charts

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• Donda at Discogs (list of releases)

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