During a recent interview, rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, expressed his feelings about Jesus, stating that he has “issues with Jesus” and prefers to take matters into his “own hands” rather than giving Jesus full control.
The interview, which also featured rapper Ty Dolla $ign, a collaborator on Ye’s new album Vultures 1, was conducted by radio personality Big Boy and posted on his Big Boy TV YouTube channel on Sunday.
“I have my issues with Jesus,” West began during the interview, which lasted for over an hour. “There’s a lot of stuff I went through, and I prayed, and I ain’t see Jesus show up.”
“I had to put my experience in this world, 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.”
West criticized American Christians today for not being proactive enough when given opportunities to help others.
“I just feel like in our society and America, people, Christians will depend on Jesus so much that we don’t put the word in ourselves. And the main thing that I don’t rock with is like, ‘I’m going to pray for you.’ It’s just like, you can actually physically do something yourself, too, more than just praying.”
“And we’re so in this mentality that that’s all that needs to happen. But we aren’t praying our way out of prison. We aren’t praying our way out of the abortion clinics. We aren’t praying our way to get our land back that was always ours after gentrification after the Harlem Renaissance and Black Wall Street was burned to the ground. Them prayers are not working.”
The rapper argued that taking physical action is key to making things happen.
“We are going to have to apply actual physical building partnerships, and it don’t start unless we could really be real with each other,” the 46-year-old said.
“You know how many threats we’ve been dealt with. And I haven’t prayed my way through them threats either. I had to get up and do it myself. I had so much to do, I haven’t have time to pray.”
Later in the interview, West asserted that he is the god of himself.
‘Cause I’m God,” he said, when asked about his success in the music industry and how he hasn’t “disappeared.” “And anyone who wants to disagree, I’m the God of me. You can’t tell me who I am. I can’t tell y’all. I could tell y’all. It’s your job to listen. I’m the God of me. I don’t know if I’m in heaven already.”
In previous years, West attracted attention and made headlines for his apparent embrace of Christianity and his public conversion to the Christian faith. He released his album “Jesus is King” in 2019 and invested over $50 million in hosting “Sunday Service” events across the country, which he described as an attempt to spread the Gospel.
His recent comments in the interview sparked reactions from Christians online.
West faced criticism last month after referring to himself as “the new Jesus” in his album “Vultures 1,” released on Feb. 10. The album features a track titled “Carnival,” known for its explicit language and themes of sexual violence. This new album was a collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign.
He is right. We humans are trying to turn God into our servant .That will not work. No amount of prayers will make God do anything for us. He has given us the capacity to do anything for ourselves. Weather good or bad.