Presidential candidate, businessman, and singer-songwriter Kanye West released his highly anticipated Donda album on August 29 which features artists like Travis Scott, Lil Yachty, The Weeknd, Playboi Carti, and even more. Even though crowds have listened to portions of the album prior at his largely crowded “listening parties,” two of them being at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and the third one in Chicago on August 26 many fans were still waiting for the album to actually release. Kanye was very quiet on social media except for the uncaptioned, seemingly random Instagram photos being posted on his page. But releasing music late is not new for Kanye to do. Graduation, The College Dropout, and The Life of Pablo were all released past their supposed release dates.

Though the album has now been released, Ye fans were treated to quite a show when it came to the actions that were undergone at these listening parties West held. It has been reported that Kanye West in fact was living in Mercedes-Benz Stadium between the times of each listening party and was spotted doing very interesting things outside of his temporary living quarters such as walking around the stadium during sporting events with a ski mask, watching sporting events from the top of the stadium’s rafters, and in his third listening party he lit himself on fire for a relatively odd introduction to the showing.

On August 30, it is apparent through Kanye’s most recent Instagram posts that Universal Records supposedly released the album without any permission from Mr. West. With a short post that said, “UNIVERSAL PUT MY ALBUM OUT WITHOUT MY PERMISSION AND THEY BLOCKED JAIL 2 FROM BEING ON THE ALBUM.” When Universal published the album, Kanye accused them of leaving out rap artist “Dababy” out of the album’s song “Jail 2.” The sequence of events involved in the release of this album really creates an outlook on what the future of music holds.