Kanye West's Road to 'Jesus is King'

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🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Brendan Klinkenberg joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss 'Jesus is King' how Kanye West's musical path headed towards gospel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now, and I'm in the studio with Brendan
0:09.8	Clinkenburg.
0:10.8	We're going to be talking about Kanye West and his new album, Jesus is King.
0:16.5	We were going to start by talking about the road to Jesus is King.
0:21.2	And we were saying before the show started, truly the road to Jesus is king and we were saying before the show started truly the road to Jesus
0:24.4	is king even involves the porn hub awards. It's been a long one. It's been a long
0:29.2	and winding road to Jesus is king so maybe start by tracing a little bit if you don't mind.
0:34.4	Well I love it came out. I guess, tail end of the year of last year. Kind of almost as a corrective to the Yay and Good Music releases that happened mid-year 2018.
0:48.2	Connie had released five albums that he'd produced all of the songs on across five weeks and basically none of them had been a
0:56.1	commercial success I think he was coming off of a lot of controversial remarks
1:01.3	about Trump and slavery and was like hoping that music would kind of bring him through the whole process and I think like those albums kind of did in a weird way like we remember yay not as the trump album but as the Wyoming album where he flew out like every music journalist alive to hear the album at a ranch in Wyoming
1:19.2	but I love it which he collaborated on with a little pump who's kind of faded from public consciousness as well since this
1:26.7	And it's kind of like a one-off almost housey track that was honestly like his last great commercial hit.
1:34.0	He premiered at the Porn Hub Awards.
1:36.0	It's about sex.
1:38.0	He's rapping with a, I believe still a teenager.
1:40.0	And it's kind of like Kanye that you would get every now and then on an album
1:44.7	rarely as a single and it succeeded at being like dumb and fun but not really
1:50.2	anything else and then fast forward to a year later and he's making a gospel
1:53.6	album where he won't swear, is talking about how he doesn't like his wife posting
1:57.6	selfies on Instagram because that means that the selfies are not for him. Sexual politics,
2:02.3	it's a real about face and kind of
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