{"id":14371,"date":"2019-08-02T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=14371"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:38:01","slug":"kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a “Born-Again Christian”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kanye<\/a><\/p>\n

Kanye West has been in the news for countless controversies and scandles, but none of that seems to phase the superstar. There might be new evidence to suggest it’s due to his growing Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Nicki Minaj held a special episode of her series Queen Radio last week where she interviewed Chance the Rapper. Chance recently went on a sabbatical to “learn the Word of God”, and when the conversation moved to Chance’s relationship with God Nicki revealed that Kanye West told her that he was a born-again Christian.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes in the music business, we think that other artists don\u2019t believe in God or are aren\u2019t spiritual as we are, and stuff like that,” she said. “Then when you find people, because I just was with Kanye, and he told me he\u2019s a born-again Christian now. Like my first instinct was, \u2018I\u2019m so proud of you,\u2019 because I could see there\u2019s a peace that he has now that just surpasses everything.”<\/p>\n

“And that’s what I find God gives you, and I love when I see men that are man enough to embrace God.”<\/p>\n

West has recently been hosting church serves weekly, inviting pastors like Rich Wilkerson, Jr. to give a sermon. He also has been working with other artists to remix worship songs. He even hosted a pop-up church service the Sunday of Coachella.<\/p>\n

Minaj also has a Christian past. She shared on the podcast a time where she encountered an atheist.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo everybody listening, if you have a man that says he don\u2019t believe in God. One time somebody told me this, that, \u2018I don\u2019t believe in God,\u2019 and it scared the living hell out of me,\u201d she said. \u201cI ran like there was no tomorrow. So I just want to say, because a man needs a strong woman in his life, like whether that woman is praying or meditating or just supporting you or giving you those talks, people don\u2019t understand how far that goes for men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chance agreed, and shared how his wife saved him and brought him to the Lord.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need you to hear one song on my album that has my best verse that I have written in my life,\u201d he told Minaj. \u201cIt\u2019s called ‘We Go High.’ I explain that my wife literally saved my life by becoming celibate and going and getting baptized.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: “And it changed her life, obviously, but we’re talking about me. It changed my life for real and now I know exactly where my strength comes from, and this is all after I proclaimed I love Jesus and stuff.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kanye West has been in the news for countless controversies and scandles, but none of that seems to phase the superstar. There might be new evidence to suggest it’s due to his growing Christian faith. Nicki Minaj held a special episode of her series Queen Radio last week where she interviewed Chance the Rapper. Chance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3383],"tags":[3263,428,4028],"class_list":["post-14371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-christian-celebrity","tag-born-again-christian","tag-kanye-west","tag-nicki-minaj"],"yoast_head":"\nKanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a "Born-Again Christian"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nicki Minaj revealed on her podcast that West sees himself as a Christian, and that she think he has peace now.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a "Born-Again Christian"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nicki Minaj revealed on her podcast that West sees himself as a Christian, and that she think he has peace now.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-02T16:38:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Megan Bailey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-marcus-linder-300x199.png\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a \"Born-Again Christian\"","description":"Nicki Minaj revealed on her podcast that West sees himself as a Christian, and that she think he has peace now.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a \"Born-Again Christian\"","og_description":"Nicki Minaj revealed on her podcast that West sees himself as a Christian, and that she think he has peace now.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2019-08-02T16:38:01+00:00","author":"Megan Bailey","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-marcus-linder-300x199.png","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html","name":"Kanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a \"Born-Again Christian\"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-marcus-linder-300x199.png","datePublished":"2019-08-02T16:38:01+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-02T16:38:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/03d3c6d022f04655d71d8c66b4614dc2"},"description":"Nicki Minaj revealed on her podcast that West sees himself as a Christian, and that she think he has peace now.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-marcus-linder-300x199.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-marcus-linder-300x199.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/08\/kanye-west-tells-fellow-star-born-christian.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kanye West Tells Fellow Star That He is a “Born-Again Christian”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/03d3c6d022f04655d71d8c66b4614dc2","name":"Megan Bailey","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/069\/06974c669f30cf83f15ef2892dfe26cex96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/069\/06974c669f30cf83f15ef2892dfe26cex96.jpg","caption":"Megan Bailey"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/mbailey"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14375,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions\/14375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}