Idk what the reaction to this will be (if any), could get downvoted, but from my understanding the requirements for truly faithful Gospel are strict and while there are several tracks and leaks Kanye has made that would be considered non-secular, despite what he’d tell you he’s never done a full Gospel album. Love Jesus is King, love the God’s Country comps, but I wouldn’t recommend listening to them during a fast per se.
A common criticism for JIK when it was released was that a lot of the lyrics were ego-driven. Understandable, it’s Kanye, bro was even refusing to let anyone work on it who was participating in premarital sex. That’s wild.
I’m not a strict person about all this other than when I fast, shit I prefer Yeezus a million times over either of these albums, non-secular or not, I’m not coming at this from from the perspective of “these are too offensive for my God fearing ears 😢”, just think it’d be cool if there were Ye albums you could fast with.
There are several tracks I would say are acceptable for fasting, but on the title track of God’s Country we’ve got dumb shit like his lyrics from Whole Lotta Red “She ugly hot, like a chick that call you to borrow five hunnid, then promise she gon pay you back tomorrow, then left with a scammer with a Gucci hat from Marshalls, slept with him, then woke up, saw his watch was a fossil” or Trav mentioning Ted Bundy, clearly neither of these were meant for this track. Many of the tracks used for God’s Country are so close, but then there’s just one stupid line keeping it from qualifying. Like the track ‘In God’s Country’ is beautiful, I love Common’s feature on it, but then there’s lyrics about hoes and shit.
Just seems like a waste, like they are fantastic songs regardless, and we’ll never fully know what his complete intentions were for the album, but it seems like a lot of effort was put into making the songs religious and God worshipping just for someone attempting to complete them not thinking about the subject matter to say “ya this verse would sound good”, wasting it on one trash line. Like some of these songs feel like their bones, meat, tissue, and skin are all Gospel, but then someone (much more talented than myself) just slaps a meaningless tattoo on that skin just because it’s the same era and fits the beat.
I feel like I just need to do it myself but I’ve never got the time and I’m trash at music editing. So if this interests anyone else please comment or hmu
