[Update] Jesus is King is out now! Listen to it here!
Ok, it’s the day before the day.
Kanye West’s new album Jesus Is King was announced by his wife Kim Kardashian in August with a September 27 release date.
But when we talk about Kanye the skepticism is rife, especially since he announced the Yandhi album via Twitter last year and never released it
because it wasn’t ready yet (two months after the scheduled date).
A year has passed, Yandhi has never been released, and our hopes are now all placed on Jesus Is King, the awaiting album that comes after the Sunday Service experience.
The title and tracklist of the album seem to be related to religion: as is known, since the beginning of the year the Wests carry on the Sunday Service tradition, a weekly service that focuses heavily on music. Sunday after Sunday Kim and Kanye held our service in different places, turning the tradition of the Black Church into something more glamorous.
In this affair that is part church, part gospel performance, and part fashion business Kanye seems to be the head of the service hosting friends such as Chance The Rapper and Kid Cudi.
Not long after the first Sunday Service, this tradition went viral and we feel that it’s going to be an important part of Kanye’s career. So we expect that Jesus Is King will be the culmination of this Sunday Service experience.
We don’t know if Jesus Is King will be released or not but here’s everything we know so far about the album.
Title and tracklist
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On Thursday, August 25 Kim Kardashian shared what seemed to be a tracklist for a new Kanye West album called Jesus Is King with a September 27 release date.
The photo included a Bible opened to Psalm 57:6 where we read: “They spread a net for my feet my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah”.
That “Selah” at the end of the psalm is also a track of the album.
“Water”
During the Sunday Service Easter at Coachella Kanye performed an unreleased track titled “Water” which is in the Jesus Is King‘s tracklist.
The biblical references
Behind the track titles, we read a lot of biblical references. “Garden” maybe alludes to the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve lived before the Original Sin. “Selah” is found frequently at the end of psalms but we don’t know what it means. “Baptized” could be referred to the baptism, the ritual of purification for committing the Original Sin.
“Water” could be related to the important symbol in Christianity.
However, each title suggests a reference to the Bible and we know that Kanye’s appropriation of religious iconography and symbols can already be seen in The Life of Pablo.
What will ‘Jesus is King’ sound like?
We are expecting the album to be gospel and sound similar to the music Kanye has been playing during his Sunday Services. The tracklist and the previously-teased “Water” seems to reflect this theory.
West’s new album may be delayed
As anticipated in the intro, it may be that we will not listen to Jesus Is King tomorrow, not ever.
There’s a recent rumor that West will miss the planned release date of Friday, September 27. According to Joe Coscarelli of The New York Times, West is currently in Wyoming where a group of Def Jam executives has traveled for a “come-to-Yeezus meeting”:
However, Kim Kardashian retweeted a countdown for the album
I guess we just have to wait until tomorrow.
