Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ Event Features Jack Harlow, Marilyn Manson, Playboi Carti, Alicia Keys and a Kim Kardashian Sample
variety.comChris Willman Music WriterCoincidentally or not, Kanye West’s livestream and theatrical simulcast of his “Donda Experience” event Tuesday night seemed to make some use of a staging conceit that Adele had recently nixed for her scotched Las Vegas residency.
The latter singer had reportedly balked at a design that would have had appear to be in or floating atop the middle of a large pool.
But for West, walking on (or in) water was just the ticket.The “Donda 2” event at Miami’s LoanDepot Park — which was ultimately streamed (and remains available) on YouTube, despite West’s earlier assurances that it wouldn’t be — had the performer pacing around a full-sized replication of his Chicago childhood home, a la the last listening party for his previous “Donda” album last year.
But this time it was surrounded by a lake of two or three inches of water laid out across the LoanDepot field, which required waders not only of West but guest performers like Jack Harlow, Playboi Carti, Pusha T, Migos, Baby Keem, Fivio Foreign, the Game, the Sunday Service Choir and (notoriously returning from the last “Donda” listening party) Marilyn Manson and DaBaby.
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