{"id":33719,"date":"2024-03-27T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=33719"},"modified":"2024-09-26T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T18:37:41","slug":"kanye-west-has-issues-with-jesus-and-is-putting-problems-into-his-own-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/03\/kanye-west-has-issues-with-jesus-and-is-putting-problems-into-his-own-hands.html","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Has ‘Issues With Jesus’ and Is Putting Problems Into His ‘Own Hands’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rapper Kanye West, who now goes by the name Ye, said in a recent interview that he has “issues with Jesus” and would instead take things into his “own hands” instead of giving Jesus complete control. West and fellow rapper Ty Dolla $ign, a collaborating artist on his new album Vultures 1, <\/em>appeared in an interview with radio personality Big Boy posted to his Big Boy TV YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

West began during the interview, which lasted for over an hour, “I have my issues with Jesus. 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.”\u00a0West criticized American Christians in society today as not being proactive enough when given opportunities to help others.<\/p>\n

He said, “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.”<\/p>\n