Kanye Westhad some unusual rules while working on his stillyet-to-be-released albumJesus Is King.
During a lengthy interview withBeats 1’s Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the rapper, 42, revealed that there were times during the process of making the religious album he asked his collaborators toabstain from premarital sex.
“This is gonna be radical what I’m about to say,” he continued, noting that in addition to sometimes “asking people to fast” there were also “times I was asking people to not have premarital sex while they were working on the album.”
“I know that’s one whereThe Shade Roomwill be like ‘what you mean not have premarital sex!?’ but seriously there’s times I went to people that were working on other projects and said could you just work and focus on this?” he continued. “I mean it’s known when people pray together, families that pray together stay together. When people pray together and fast together, the power is increased.”
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West also claimed that his faith helped him beat addictions to pornography and sex.
“Playboywas my gateway into full-on pornography addiction,” he said. “My dad had aPlayboyleft out at age 5, and it’s affected almost every choice I made for the rest of my life from age 5 to now, having to kick the habit.”
Continuing he said, “It’s like that was such a script out of a rockstar’s life.My mom had passed a year beforeand I said some people drown themselves in drugs. And I drowned myself in my addiction [to sex].”
“I suffer and I appreciate the suffering because we can feel a little bit of what Jesus experienced, but I suffer on social media,” Kanye explained to Lowe during the interview. “There are other married men that I know are happy to hear me say that.”
“Social media prompts women, in particular, to put out content that they wouldn’t in the past,” he continued. “When I was younger and I wanted to see something like that I had to pay someone who was older … Now I have friends who have kids in high school and it’s readily available.”
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Although West’s latest interviews have been in support ofJesus Is King, the album, which was supposed to be released at midnight on Friday, hasyet to materialize.
Early Friday morning, West tweeted an explanation, sharing that they were stillfine-tuning some tracks.
West went on to assure that his team is hard at work finalizing the record: “We not going to sleep until this album is out!”
While West’s fans are used to the rapper’s releases arriving fashionably late — ornot at all— producer Consequence has claimed the album will bereleased Friday afternoon.
source: people.com
