The title of Kanye West’s 2022 album released initially as a Stem Player exclusive was Donda 2.
Donda 2 was planned as a follow-up to 2021’s Donda. West announced that it would not appear on ordinary commercial streaming services at launch and would instead be accessed through the Stem Player, an interactive music device previously associated with Donda. The device allowed listeners to isolate and remix elements such as vocals, drums, bass and samples.
The album’s rollout was unusually unfinished: West expected to continue updating the project, but the Stem Player version received no major updates after February 2022. This also caused confusion because songs circulated through unofficial leaks, while the project did not qualify for Billboard chart placement under merchandise-bundling rules. A later streaming release means “exclusively” is most precise when describing the album’s original 2022 release, not its entire later history.