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A final version ofKanye West’sDonda 2albummay have never officially been released, but now listeners have a chance to own a piece of the album’s rollout — a replica of the rapper’s childhood home.
The Levy Recovery Grouphas listed the replica of the Chicago home, which it claims was used during the unfinished album’s February 2022 listening event in Miami, on its website.
The auction for the set, which is modeled after the home that once housed West’slate mother Donda West, kicks off on Oct. 2. It is being held in conjunction with Ziff Capital.
West previously held three listening events for his tenth studio albumDondain 2021 at stadiums in Chicago and Atlanta.
Months later, he announced what would’ve marked his 11th studio album andDonda’ssequel,Donda 2, and played the seemingly unfinished project at a listening event in Miami in February. (The demo album is available exclusively on the Stem Player audio remix device.)
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At the Miami listening event, West stood in front of the replica home, which Levy describes as a “900 sq. ft. modular house.”
Both crosses that appeared on the home are also featured in the upcoming auction, according to the website.
The listing does not specify if the set piece was also used during any of the initialDondalistening events in 2021, and the company is considering pre-auction offers for the home.
Levy told PEOPLE in a statement that in terms of sales projections, “It’s very difficult to put a finite number on what is an authentic piece of music history.”
Kanye West and his mother, Donda, prior to a book signing in 2007.Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage
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TheDonda 2listening event notably caused controversy in 2022 over West’s decision to bring outMarilyn Manson, who previously appeared on hisDondaalbum.
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Last week,West’s Twitter account was restoredafterElon Musksuspended him in December following his decision to tweetan image of a swastika inside a Star of David.
West also madeantisemitic remarksa month before on the platform, as he was previously banned from Twitter, which is now known as X, after writing that he planned to go “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people.”
source: people.com
