Kanye West hear our tweets.
As fans know, the Grammy-winning rapper released his ninth studio album on Friday afternoon after months of delays and re-imaginings.
Nearly a year after evolving beyond its Yandhi iteration, the record was announced by Kim Kardashian West to be released on September 27, then “definitely” on September 29.
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Well, nearly a month later, Kanye has risen with the gospel rap album Jesus Is King — and after all the hype, listeners naturally have thoughts.
Needless to say, fans flocked to social media to share their reactions to the hotly-anticipated spiritual project, which features the rapper’s Sunday Service Choir, Ty Dolla $ign, Clipse, and Kenny G, amongst others.
Ch-ch-check out the reactions to each track (below)!
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Fans were largely impressed with the album’s opening number, which featured the powerful vocal stylings of the father-of-four’s Sunday service choir.
The second pulse-pounding track took many listeners to a higher ground:
Fans were indifferent toward the third track, which critics say is “lyrically lazy” and “sounds like it could have come out over a decade ago.”
This song is getting a lot of social media talk for it’s buzzy Chick-fil-A lyric, which goes:
“Closed on Sunday / You’re My Chick-fil-A / You’re number one with the lemonade”
Naturally, many enjoyed the reference.
The praise kept coming for the next track, which boats some string flourishes and Daft Punk-esque synths.
This track had everything listeners needed — but fans were disappointed late rapper XXXTentacion‘s verse was taken off.
There’s a bit of a Change The Rapper-ness to this uplifting track, and fans were lapping it up.
The praise kept coming for the next song:
This track includes a nod to the 13 Amendment, which references Ye’s highly controversial comments about slavery being “a choice.” Aside from that nonsense, fans were into it — except for maybe Christians.
Fans were all about the verses from Clipse (made up of Pusha T and his born again brother No Malice) as well as the smooth sax of Mr. G.
It’s not a track so much as an outro of Kanye repetitively singing “Jesus is Lord”. Still, fans were here for it:
What’s your favorite track on Jesus Is King?
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