Since 2019, the group, Sunday Service Choir have been out there giving the world classic and memorable songs. The song rises from Kanye West new album "Donda" which housed 27th tracks with lots of guest appearances. They released this song not long ago which has become fans most favourite. It can, nonetheless, have an impact on people who live as Kanye does: attempting to straddle the truth of the gospel and the familiar nature of themselves.īower is an opinion writer.What a lovely and catchy tune named "Lord I Need You" from the performance of Kanye West featuring Sunday Service Choir, the American gospel group led by rapper and producer Kanye West and conducted by choir director Jason White. It should not be blown out of proportion as an amazing gospel album. If people approach “Donda” as such, it will hold its weight. It can only be rightly consumed as a testimonial a recollection of events and experiences and a presentation of a shifted worldview. Many of its themes - from both Kanye and featured artists - are not biblical at all. It should not be consumed as a gospel album. “Donda” should not be consumed as worship, for its content is not solely focused on God (Psa. My warning comes not from questioning whether or not Kanye is saved - that was a great concern at the end of 2019 - but rather scaling the weight that Christians should give to his religious musical efforts. For the layperson looking at a celebrity-turned-Christian, it seems that West is giving consistent effort to hold to biblical beliefs. Of the few deep and vulnerable points on the record, I must respect him. Of course, the lyrics preceding that boast “I don’t know what I’d do without me.” There might be more grit in Praise God, which finds him confronting halfway religious people by spouting, “Y’all treat your Lord and Savior like renter’s insurance, you know what I mean?” It seems that even two albums into faith-based music, he is still teetering between giving God all praise by admitting full dependency on him, and taking some of the spotlight for himself. Perhaps the most insightful lyrics about the album are, “the Devil run the playground, but God own the building,” as he rhymes on “Lord I Need You”. I do mean, though, that by Christian standards for theology in song, his lyrics are incredibly surface-level. When I claim that the album overall has shallow lyrics and simple beats, I don’t mean it as an affront to Ye. This is where Christians must be cautious. Apart from this and a quote from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem which says, “Even if you are not ready for day, it cannot always be night,” the lyrics - even the spiritual ones - are shallow. talking about his father’s incarceration. Toward the end of the song, he incorporates a recording of Larry Hoover Jr. The eight-and-a-half-minute song “Jesus Lord” is practically a baptized version of an earlier hit, “Runaway,” but includes probably the deepest content on the album. The album, The Atlantic argues, is somewhat of an anthology or an attempt to steady his career “by reminding the world of the sounds that made him famous.” In some ways, that is very true. Dealing with the wide range of topics that he does in this album brings Jesus to the surface less. What shocked me more as I listened to it was how overtly God-centered the album was as a whole. Most of that shock came from the mere fact that he released an album dedicated to exalting Jesus as King and Savior. Ye shocked the world - both the evangelical and secular worlds - with “JESUS IS KING,” his introduction into the Christian music scene. After revealing to the world that he struggles with bipolar disorder, he then ran for president and started hosting church services and releasing faith-based music. In that time, the world has seen many sides to Kanye, who recently changed his legal name to Ye, according to The Guardian. “I thought about killing you, premeditated murder,” West confessed only three years before the release of his 27-track juggernaut. The question that Christians face in the wake of this new Kanye piece is, “Should I take this seriously?” The album is simple musically, which gives the listener the ability to pay attention to its lyrical content. A nearly two-hour follow-up to his short wavemaker “JESUS IS KING” (2019), this effort finds West addressing topics such as his unofficial divorce from Kim Kardashian, his mother’s impact on his life and his reliance on God. After more than a month’s delay, Kanye West released his 10th studio album, “Donda”, on Aug.
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