Fans react as Kanye West streams with N3ON and Sneako on KICK for their DONDA 2 listening party

On April 30, 2025, Kanye West made a surprise appearance on a livestream hosted by popular streamers N3ON and Sneako on the KICK platform to celebrate the release of his album Donda 2 on mainstream streaming services. The rapper has been in Spain for the past couple of weeks, where he met up with the streamers to hold the listening party.

Rather than opting for the stadium-sized listening events that characterized his previous album releases, West chose a more intimate digital setting for this release. The stream has now reportedly racked up more than 132K views on KICK, making it one of the most successful ventures of N3ON.

Kanye West has now released the album for all streaming platforms except Apple Music, and the release of the album has been met with mixed responses from the fans who viewed his stream appearance as a sign of his declining powers:

One fan.

"Went from mercedes-benz stadium to listening parties with neon and sneako",

Annother. quipped:.

"His career needs to be studied",

Yet another fan remarked:

"Went from listening parties in stadiums to listening parties with Neon znd Sneako I’m crying bro"

Another fan chimed in:

"That’s not even the average Kai Cenat numbers tbh"

Another fan added:

"Album not even done yet, he said he just wanted to drop it and fix it as he makes new music"

Another user mocked:

"That’s it Kai does those numbers while just on desk top"

Kanye West has had a storied career and has amassed a legion of fans through his music. He also had some backers on social media who defended the artist from attacks and praised him for being a visionary.

One fan wrote:

"Idek bro got that much aura"

Another stated:

"It’s the wave you dinkle berry, you don’t see all the rappers tryna stream. Is the next big thing and hasn’t even really begun"

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Kanye West and Donda 2 - a brief history

Donda 2 was released back on February 22, 2022, and acted as the continuation of the album Donda, which paid homage to Kanye's late mother Donda West, who passed away in 2007. The album had been available on the Stem Player devices up until now, but the album has now been released under the artist name Donda on all major streaming platforms except Apple Music.

The album features 18 tracks in total, with notable guest appearances from Future, Jack Harlow, and a sample of Kim Kardashian’s SNL monologue. There had been speculation on the internet that Kanye West would be holding a listening party with Kai Cenat for the release of his album. But over the past couple of months, relations between the two have soured owing to Kanye's controversial posts on X.

This led to Cenat disassociating himself from the rapper and giving out a statement on his stream when he discounted the possibility of collaborating with Kanye by saying:

"I’ma go ahead and address the elephant in the room. I seen the tweets. I don’t know what’s going on, bro. I think it’s [over]. It’s crazy. It’s just back to back to back. It’s [over], bro.