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God's Country is an unreleased studio album by Kanye West developed in the period following the release of JESUS IS KING. Ye would eventually be inspired to dedicate this album to his mother, officially announcing it as DONDA on July 18, 2020.
God's Country continued development on select material from Yandhi, and also introduced a lot of new material based on darker and / or more political themes. Alternate names for the album revealed through leaks include Palm Springs, Our Beautiful Amazing Reality, Our Beautiful Light Clear Reality, and JESUS IS LORD.
Background[]
Kanye West's ninth studio album, JESUS IS KING, was released on October 25, 2019,[1] and almost immediately after. development on God's Country would begin. Leakers revealed that Ye recorded over 100 songs on November 4, 2019, ten days after JESUS IS KING released. On November 18, Ye also announced that he was working with Dr. Dre on an album titled JESUS IS KING Part II, and these albums would be worked on simultaneously.[2]
The following May, cinematographer Arthur Jafa said that he was working on a new music video for a Ye album titled God's Country.[3] This was the first mention of the album. That video ended up being for "Wash Us In The Blood," which was released on June 30 as the lead (and only) single for the album.
The God's Country era came to an end when Ye tweeted that he had renamed the album to Donda on July 21, 2020. The album title would move between Donda to DONDA: WITH CHILD, and finally back to Donda before being released on August 29, 2021.
Track list[]
A few tracklists ended up being leaked starting in 2021. However, in May 2023, artist Pierre-Louis Auvray would post a tracklist from July 2020, which revealed a previously unknown alternate title for the album: Our Beautiful Amazing Reality.
The last known tracklist from the God's Country era (just days before it was renamed to DONDA) was leaked in November 2022 and is as follows:
- Donda
- Wash Us In The Blood
- This Is The Glory
- Follow The Light
- In God’s Country
- 24
- I Feel Terrific
- God's Country
- Lord I Need You To Wrap Your Arms Around Me
- Up From The Ashes
- Let The Spirit Go Wild
- Off The Grid
- Eternal Life
- Tell The Vision
- Future Bounce
- Hurricane
- My Soul
- Keep My Spirit Alive
- Spread My Wings
- Praise God
- I Can't Complain
- Skurrrrr
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