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Has Kanye Really Changed?
I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel. — Kanye West
I attended Kanye’s Sunday Service in Kingston, Jamaica last week. Technically it was Kanye’s Sabbath Service since it was held on a Friday but I’m sure the Seventh-Day Adventists didn’t mind one bit.
When I heard his testimony after his choir belted out song after song, I felt a tinge of sincerity in his words. He quoted a passage from the gospel of Mark and then played a dope house remix of a gospel sample.
For what it’s worth, everything sounded great. I have my doubts about that choir because I don’t know how they were able to hold notes for so long with so much power. I think Ye was using a synth or something to help with that because it sounded ridiculously good.
But as I left Emancipation Park — a fitting location for such a transformative event — I really had to state the tired cliché: I miss the old Kanye. But also, is this for real?
His temperament was unlike anything I’d seen in other live performances. No machismo, no show-boating, no ego. He didn’t even show his face much in the almost two hours he and the choir took the stage. In the beginning, some people who didn’t have the best view of the stage wondered if he was really there.
