{"id":1718,"date":"2025-05-01T03:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/05\/01\/donda-2-pulled-due-to-kanye-wests-stolen-beats-former-manager-breaks-silence\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T03:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:18:30","slug":"donda-2-pulled-due-to-kanye-wests-stolen-beats-former-manager-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/05\/01\/donda-2-pulled-due-to-kanye-wests-stolen-beats-former-manager-breaks-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Donda 2&#8221; Pulled Due To Kanye West&#8217;s Stolen Beats\u2014Former Manager Breaks Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kanye West dropped his long-awaited album <em>Donda 2<\/em> on major streaming platforms Wednesday (April 30), only to have it yanked hours after a payment dispute with producers.<\/p>\n<p>West had initially released the project exclusively through his Stem Player device in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>But this week, the album briefly surfaced on Spotify and YouTube Music before being taken down after legal threats from Free Maiden, the manager of two producers who worked on the album.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/ye-former-manager-says-rapper-stole-beats-owes-millions\/\">During an chat with <em>AllHipHop<\/em>, Free Maiden gave more details about the dispute with West.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou chose to run, duck, hide, and continuously steal our s###!\u201d Free Maiden snapped said. \u201cWhy you think you have the right to continue to steal from us and monetize the work? It\u2019s very slum landlordish. Get on the phone like a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Free Maiden represents Jahmal \u201cBoogz Da Beast\u201d Gwin and Brian \u201cAllDay\u201d Miller, who produced eight of the album\u2019s 18 songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man has been stealing for years, but I always protected him,\u201d Free Maiden told <em>AllHipHop<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve saved Kanye nine figures in attempted lawsuits alone in the past. Gloves off now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The brief appearance of <em>Donda 2<\/em> on streaming marked the first time the album had been widely available outside of West\u2019s platform. The project had long been considered \u201clost\u201d by listeners due to its limited release and lack of official distribution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1917595888123265057\">The latest dispute<\/a> adds to a turbulent stretch for West, who was banned from Twitch just seven minutes into his debut stream last week.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday evening, <em>Donda 2<\/em> remained unavailable on major streaming services, but West hinted that he wanted to come to an amicable resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally wanna work with Brian and Boogz again,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cReally wanna work this out.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><d class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><br \/>\n<d class=\"embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really wanna work with Brian and Boogz again <\/p>\n<p>Really wanna work this out<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1917595888123265057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/d><br \/>\n<\/d><\/figure>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"article-footer-text\">\n<h2> What do you think about this article? <\/h2>\n<p><span> Share your thoughts in the comments below and join the discussion! <\/span><\/aside>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/ye-donda-2-pulled-stolen-beats-free-maiden-speaks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West dropped his long-awaited album Donda 2 on major streaming platforms Wednesday (April 30), only to have it yanked hours after a payment dispute with producers. 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But this week, the album briefly surfaced on Spotify and YouTube Music before being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}