{"id":283672,"date":"2019-11-15T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1094058"},"modified":"2019-11-15T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:42:47","slug":"watch-kanye-west-and-his-sunday-service-choir-perform-for-inmates-at-texas-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/watch-kanye-west-and-his-sunday-service-choir-perform-for-inmates-at-texas-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kanye West and His Sunday Service Choir Perform for Inmates at Texas Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019829\/rs_1024x759-190929182328-1024-kanye-westp-church-performance-me-92919.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Kanye West\" alt=\"Kanye West\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jackson Lee \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.364238410596\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.245033112583\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> and his Sunday Service choir surprised inmates at a Houston, Tex. jail with several intimate performances on Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E! News has learned the rapper brought&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1086805\/north-west-steals-the-show-at-kanye-west-s-sunday-service-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the spiritual experience<\/a>&nbsp;to the Harris County Jail and performed twice for both the male and female population of the facility.&nbsp;Approximately 100 members of the choir accompanied West for&nbsp;each of the hour-long sets. We&#8217;re told that the hip-hop star&#8217;s team reached out to the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Department just a few days ago to coordinate the special event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch video of the performance below, which shows the inmates overcome with emotion as Kanye raps for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Kanye and the choir are set to appear alongside televangelist&nbsp;<strong>Joel Osteen<\/strong>&nbsp;during his Lakewood Church services. A representative for the megachurch&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Kanye-West-at-Joel-Osteen-s-Lakewood-Church-Housto-14828487.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> <em>The Houston Chronicle<\/em> that Osteen will also interview West about his&nbsp;newfound faith.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>&#8220;Kanye and Joel are friends. He&#8217;s been wanting to come out for some time and it just worked out for this weekend,&#8221; Donald Iloff told the publication.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.277559055118\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.267716535433\">\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;spent the day advocating for prison reform. The KKW Beauty founder visited the Allan B. Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Tex. and spent time with death row inmate&nbsp;<strong>Rodney Reed<\/strong>, whose stay of execution was just granted by a Texas appeals court.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kardashian is among those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/peoples_choice_awards\/news\/1091556\/kim-kardashian-makes-plea-for-death-row-inmate-rodney-reed-to-be-saved-at-2019-people-s-choice-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly pleading<\/a> with authorities and Governor&nbsp;<strong>Greg Abbott<\/strong>&nbsp;to exonerate Reed in light of doubts surrounding his guilty conviction. After meeting Reed, Kim took to Instagram with details from her visit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.76582278481\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.911392405063\">\n<p>&#8220;Words cannot describe the relief and hope that swept over the room in that moment,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B45-_kKA3ux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>, referencing the latest development in Reed&#8217;s case. &#8220;That hope had been building over the last few weeks around Rodney&#8217;s case. We have seen Democrats and Republicans come together. We have seen grassroots activists and lawmakers link arms. We have heard people all around the globe speak up. And all because of a deep belief that every man or woman accused of a crime\u2014especially one punishable by death\u2014deserves the chance to have all available evidence considered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;So grateful for the commitment and passion of everyone who voiced their support, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for their recommendation to issue a 120 day reprieve, and the courts for issuing a stay!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <i>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/i> Sunday at 9 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1094058\/watch-kanye-west-and-his-sunday-service-choir-perform-for-inmates-at-texas-jail?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson Lee \/ SplashNews.com Kanye West and his Sunday Service choir surprised inmates at a Houston, Tex. jail with several intimate performances on Friday.&nbsp; E! News has learned the rapper brought&nbsp;the spiritual experience&nbsp;to the Harris County Jail and performed twice for both the male and female population of the facility.&nbsp;Approximately 100 members of the choir [&hellip;]<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-12 22:11:27","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":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}