{"id":974179,"date":"2019-12-25T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=931238"},"modified":"2019-12-25T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:26:48","slug":"kanye-west-releases-new-album-jesus-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/kanye-west-releases-new-album-jesus-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Releases New Album \u2018Jesus Is Born\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the release of <\/span>Jesus Is King<\/span><\/i><\/a> \u2014<\/span><\/i> Kanye West<\/a>\u2019s gospel-indebted ninth solo album \u2014 came a promise: on Christmas Day, West would release a second Christianity-themed album titled <\/span>Jesus Is Born<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite nagging difficulties with releasing albums on time \u2014 <\/span>Jesus Is King <\/span><\/i>saw numerous delays and its predecessor, <\/span>Yandhi<\/span><\/i>, was never released \u2014 West\u2019s latest was right on schedule, hitting streaming services on Christmas afternoon. <\/span><\/p>\n

While <\/span>Jesus Is King <\/span><\/i>used gospel as a starting point, pulling textures from worship music to add depth to West\u2019s typically genre-hopping brand of hip-hop, <\/span>Jesus Is Born <\/span><\/i>was promised as a more traditional approach to the genre. <\/span><\/p>\n

West re-committed himself to Christianity in 2019, speaking publicly about his faith and kicking off a now-long-running series of performances with his choir, Sunday Service. \u201cWhat I\u2019m thinking is gonna be a week or two, now I\u2019ve been in the company of Kanye West for the last 10 months,\u201d said Jason White, the Sunday Service choir director ahead of the release of <\/span>Jesus Is King<\/span><\/i>. \u201cI\u2019ve spent every Sunday riding with him.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

West has recently, in collaboration with the Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft, expanded those performances into \u201coperas\u201d: Expansive and ambitious pieces of performance art featuring the Sunday Service Choir, a coterie of dancers and West reading from the Bible. The most recent performance, Mary<\/em><\/a>, took place at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Is Born<\/span><\/i>, as explained by West, is his first full-length recorded effort with the Sunday Service choir. While conceived of as a primarily performance-based group, the release of this album suggests West may consider it a part of his recording process moving forward \u2014 a change in practice for the authorial producer, who typically takes pieces from other writers, producers and performers and bends them into collage-like songs to fit his own purposes. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Is King<\/span><\/i>, for example, used Sunday Service sparingly, and although the results of the album were uneven, it was recognizably a piece of West\u2019s larger oeuvre. In its pre-release description, <\/span>Jesus Is Born<\/span><\/i> appears to be something new from West. <\/span><\/p>\n

The album also, thanks to its release day, has the opportunity to be classified as a Christmas album, a potentially lucrative avenue. Mariah Carey<\/a> is a prime example of a star making the most of the season, riding her rendition of \u201cAll I Want For Christmas\u201d to ever-greater heights every year. For West, who despite repeated controversies has never been a more profitable artist (thanks largely to his wildly popular Adodas shoe line), it would be a somewhat fitting end to the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the release of Jesus Is King \u2014 Kanye West\u2019s gospel-indebted ninth solo album \u2014 came a promise: on Christmas Day, West would release a second Christianity-themed album titled Jesus Is Born. Despite nagging difficulties with releasing albums on time \u2014 Jesus Is King saw numerous delays and its predecessor, Yandhi, was never released \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 04:48:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}