{"id":491607,"date":"2019-10-24T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=903551"},"modified":"2019-10-24T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T22:26:28","slug":"kanye-west-a-punctual-man-who-never-misses-release-dates-announces-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kanye-west-a-punctual-man-who-never-misses-release-dates-announces-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West, a Punctual Man Who Never Misses Release Dates, Announces Christmas Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/10422035aW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Watch The Throne 2<\/em>. <em>Yeezus 2<\/em>. <em>Good Ass Job<\/em>. <em>Yandhi<\/em>. <em>Cruel Winter<\/em>. <em>Turbo Grafx 16<\/em>. <em>Child Rebel Soldier<\/em>. That unnamed, but rumored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kanye-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kanye West<\/a> and Drake collaborative album.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a vast and tangled graveyard of all the announced, scrapped, and retooled Kanye projects that will never see the light of day. West\u2019s ninth studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kanye-wests-jesus-is-king-a-work-in-progress-892567\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Jesus Is King<\/em><\/a>, has already missed two release dates, and there\u2019s a possibility it will miss a third if it doesn\u2019t arrive at midnight on Thursday. That\u2019s what makes Kanye\u2019s recent declaration that he\u2019s dropping a Christmas album hyperbolic at best. \u201cSunday Service album, <em>Jesus Is Born<\/em>, on Christmas, is coming,\u201d West told Zane Lowe during a two-hour interview on Beats 1.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, West spent the interview comparing L.A. billboards to a form of sex trafficking, told a story about leaving his phone number on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kanye-new-number-drake-903404\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake\u2019s porch<\/a>, and called himself the \u201cgreatest human artist of all time,\u201d but still the announcement that he\u2019ll deliver a Sunday Service album by Christmas remains the most ludicrous part of the entire discussion. This isn\u2019t to say that West dropping a Sunday Service album called <em>Jesus Is Born<\/em> on the day Jesus was born wouldn\u2019t be received with open arms. I\u2019ll be the first to admit I\u2019d abandon all of my yuletide plans to cover a new Mr. West album <em>[Editor\u2019s Note: He wouldn\u2019t]<\/em>. But at this point, we have no real reason to believe that these plans aren\u2019t flexible.<\/p>\n<p>Until <em>Jesus Is Born<\/em> arrives \u2014 or doesn\u2019t \u2014 feel free to bump \u201cChristmas In Harlem\u201d and reminisce about better, less chaotic times.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Emz2ciGhsXM?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kanye-west-jesus-is-born-903551\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch The Throne 2. Yeezus 2. Good Ass Job. Yandhi. Cruel Winter. Turbo Grafx 16. Child Rebel Soldier. That unnamed, but rumored Kanye West and Drake collaborative album. There\u2019s a vast and tangled graveyard of all the announced, scrapped, and retooled Kanye projects that will never see the light of day. West\u2019s ninth studio album, [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:40:07","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}