Still Christian, still Kanye: God’s light shines in the darkness on ‘Donda’

[Michie]

He may leave some Christians cold, but for non-Christians, the album might just put them on a path to an encounter with God.

“This the new me, so get used to me.”

So raps Kanye West on his long-awaited tenth studio album Donda, named after the rapper’s late mother, who passed away in 2007. It’s a fitting tagline, because by now, many of Kanye’s old fans probably expected him to stop being so Christian, and many of his newer Christian fans probably expected him to stop being so . . . well, Kanye. But Donda offers ample evidence that he is still very much both: a man wrestling with his past, forging through the present, and thirsting for more of the grace that finally perfects nature.

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Still Christian, still Kanye: God’s light shines in the darkness on 'Donda'

 

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In fact, within 24 hours of its release, Donda was breaking records left and right: it reached #1 on Apple Music in 152 countries worldwide, became the year’s most-streamed album in a day on both Spotify and Apple Music, and even had the second-biggest debut on Spotify (100 million streams) and third-biggest debut on Apple Music (60 million streams in the US alone) in the history of the platforms.