Kanye claims record label released ‘Donda’ without his approval

Kanye claims record label released 'Donda' without his approval

Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West recently claimed that his record label released his new album titled ‘Donda’ without his approval. Hours after West’s 10th studio album went live on streaming services, the rapper took to Instagram and shared a post claiming that Universal Music Group, parent company to the label Def Jam, didn’t have his permission to release it.

“Universal put my album out without my approval. And they blocked ‘Jail 2’ from being on the album,” the hitmaker wrote. It is not clear what West means by “blocked” since there are songs titled ‘Jail’ and ‘Jail Pt 2’ as the second and 24th tracks, respectively, on the 27-song LP.

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‘Variety’ reported that ‘Jail Pt 2’ was originally unavailable to stream when the album was first released at 8 am ET, but it was later added to the tracklist around 1 pm ET.

Representatives for Universal had no comment on the allegation, but sources at the company called it “preposterous.” Typically, when a song on an album is blocked from streaming on a service such as Spotify or others, the song has not been cleared legally because of a copyright conflict or similar issue.

The track, and its counterpart ‘Jail’, has been a cause for controversy over the past few days, as the former features both Marilyn Manson, who has been accused of sexual assault by several women and DaBaby, who made headlines earlier in the month with his homophobic comments.