![]() ![]() I live for this / I've been fucked with by nerd ass jock niggas like you my whole life / You will never recover / I promise you On the track, "Betrayl," Drake is featured and raps, "All these fools I'm beefin' that I barely know / Forty-five, forty-four (burned out), let it go / Ye ain't changin' s*** for me, it's set in stone." This is said to be the inspiration for Kanye's Joker post. Kanye posting the screenshot adds to an ongoing beef between the two rappers that sparked back up again because of a Drake feature on Trippie Redd's new album, Trip at Knight, which was released on August 20th, 2021. On August 21st, 2021, Kanye posted a screenshot to his Instagram (shown below) of a message sent to a group chat including Pusha T and Drake, among others, where the message he sent was a photo of Joaquin Pheonix's Joker accompanied with text underneath. Users across Instagram and the subreddit /r/WestSubEver began remixing the image, comparing Kanye's living situation to Doomer culture in general and meme templates like, Damn Bitch, You Live Like This? (examples seen below). Quickly, the bleak, locker-room-esque photo (shown below) gained roughly 1.6 million likes in less than 24 hours (seen below). On July 27th, 2021, Kanye finally posted a photo to his Instagram of his living quarters inside the stadium. Kanye's Bedroom Inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium Screenshots of these also went viral across other platforms as well, like Instagram and Reddit. Twitter user tweet gained over 1,300 likes in roughly four days. Quote tweets of both and tweets began to go viral, comparing the rapper's look and situation to the Phantom of the Opera (shown below). News outlet Consequence revealed the information in a tweet on July 24th, 2021. It was only revealed after the soccer game image went viral that Kanye set up a recording studio and living quarters inside the stadium. The tweet gained over 10,700 likes in roughly five days. On July 24th, 2021, a new image of Kanye in the stadium went viral on Twitter, posted by user who spotted the rapper the next day, in the same "release-party fit," wandering the stadium through aisles of fans at an Atlanta United soccer game (shown below). The tweet gained over 305,000 likes in roughly one week (shown below). Twitter user compared the image of Kanye in the middle of the stadium to a Club Penguin screenshot. Images from the release party began going viral on July 23rd, 2021, across all platforms, depicting a lone Kanye surrounded by fans sporting a bright, red outfit and pantyhose over his face (shown below). A different video of the entire event uploaded by YouTube channel, Trem of Lab, is provided below, posted on August 26th, 2021. The video has since been removed from YouTube. On the night of the event, YouTuber Unghetto Mathieu uploaded footage of the listening party, receiving over 1.1 million views and 21,000 likes in six days. ![]() The event was sold-out and livestreamed on Apple Music with 40,000 fans in attendance. Regardless, Kanye held a listening party inside the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on the 23rd. ![]() On July 23rd, 2021, Kanye West's newest album Donda was set to be released at midnight across all streaming platforms, but the album was never released.
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