KEY POINTS

  • Kanye West released a tracklist with 12 songs
  • The total running time of the album is 39 minutes
  • West tweeted that he is now going to "focus on the music"

Hours after sending a cryptic message to wife Kim Kardashian, Kanye West announced that his 10th album “Donda” will release Friday, July 24.

The 43-year-old rapper took to Twitter Monday night to make the announcement. He also released a tracklist with 12 songs from the album. The total running time of the album is 39 minutes. On Saturday, West tweeted that the album would be released "the next week", before deleting the post.

Before making the announcement Monday, the presidential candidate posted cryptic messages directed toward his wife and mother-in-law Kris Jenner.

"Kriss [sic] don't play with me you and that calmye are not allowed around my children. Ya'll tried to lock me up," he wrote.

Referring to Kardashian and her then-boyfriend Ray J’s sex tape, West tweeted, "I put my life on the line for my children that North's mother would never sell her sex rape [sic]. I put my life on my God that North's mom would never photograph her doing playboy and that's on God. I'm at the ranch... come and get me."

He then tweeted a photo along with his children and captioned it, "West children will never do playboy.”

On Saturday, West held his first-ever presidential rally where he revealed that his wife almost had an abortion.

"So even if my wife were to divorce me after this speech, she brought North into the world, even when I didn't want to. She stood up and she protected that child," West said at the rally.

The rapper referred that moment and tweeted, "Kim was trying to fly to Wyoming with a doctor to lock me up like on the movie ‘Get Out’ because I cried about saving my daughter's life yesterday."

West later tweeted that he is now going to "focus on the music."

On July 12, West marked his late mother’s birthday by releasing a new song on Twitter.

"In loving memory of my incredible mother on her birthday. My mom reciting KRS1 lyrics. This song is called DONDA," he captioned it.

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Kanye West is seen in New York in November 2019. AFP/Angela Weiss