Kanye West’s Austere Reform Church
The rapper’s IMAX movie, <em>Jesus Is King</em>, puts a choral Christian concert into an artist’s crater to beautiful—but cold—effect.
In an interview broadcast yesterday, Apple Music’s Zane Lowe asked Kanye West when, exactly, he’d been born again. The rapper has always been Christian. He’s been putting on “Sunday Service” worship concerts for all of 2019. But there had to be a moment when his faith came to more fully command his life. There had to be a moment that led to West not only titling his new album Jesus Is King but also asking his collaborators to—as he told Lowe—fast and abstain from sex outside of marriage.
West replied that his come-closer-to-Jesus episode happened around April, when he got his hair colored purple. “I remember
