When offering his current thoughts on his faith, the rapper and Yeezy designer also gives some examples of how he sees prayer alone cannot lead to desired results.
- Mar 17, 2024
AceShowbiz - Kanye West has gotten candid about his current thoughts on faith. The "Donda" artist, whose music sometimes focuses on Christianity, revealed in an interview that he has "issues" with Jesus Christ.
"I have my issues with Jesus," the 46-year-old told Big Boy in an interview where he was joined by his "Vultures" collaborator, Ty Dolla $ign. "There's a lot of stuff I went through, that I prayed, and I ain't see Jesus show up."
"I had to put my experience in this world," Ye added, "My experience with my children, my experience with other people, my experience with my account, my experience with my brand, and my experience with the level of music that I was dealing with in my own hands."
Kanye went on to share, "A lot of times I feel like in our society, in America, people, Christians, we depend on Jesus so much that we won't put in the work ourselves." He then elaborated, "The main thing I don't rock with is like, 'I'm gonna pray for you.' It's just like, you can actually physically do something yourself, too, more than just praying."
"We're so in this mentality that that's all that needs to happen, but we ain't praying our way out of prison, we ain't paying our way out of the abortion clinics, we ain't praying our way to get our land back that was always ours after gentrification, after the Harlem Renaissance and Black Wall Street was burnt to the ground," the father of four continued. "Them prayers ain't working."
Ye also opened up about how he went through hard times amid his controversies. "You know how many threats we been dealt? And I didn't pray my way through those threats, either. I had to get up and do it myself. I had so much to do I ain't have time to pray … Look at where I'm at today."
