Kanye West is almost ready to release his new album Jesus Is King to the public, but there are already a handful of select people who have heard the project in its entirety.
Among them is Chicago music industry insider and [rapper] Valee’s manager Andrew Barber, who says the Kanye who created “Gold Digger” and “Famous” is no more.
According to a recent tweet, ‘Ye will only make spiritual music.
“Kanye also announced that he is no longer making secular music,” Barber wrote on Saturday (September 28, 2019). “Only Gospel from here on out.”
West has been delaying the much-anticipated album, and his wife Kim Kardashian West teased the tracklist Friday.
Anyone attending the Chicago listening party was required to leave their cell phones in locked pouches, so no video has yet surfaced of West's remarks.
Kardashian West told The View that the new album was instrumental in West becoming a Christian.
“Kanye started this to really heal himself and it was a really personal thing, and it was just friends and family,” she said earlier this month. “He has had an amazing evolution of being born again and being saved by Christ.”
West has announced a documentary about the making of his new album Jesus Is King.
Kanye previewed the film at an event at Detroit’s Fox Theatre called Jesus Is King: A Kanye West Experience, and again at a similar event Saturday night at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre.
The documentary, which is also titled Jesus Is King, premieres in IMAX theaters on Friday, October 25.
