Reacting to "Jesus is King" by Kanye West

great to see Kanye back in the rotation. he's just someone navigating through life just like everyone else. great review Bob, and thanks for sharing memories of the gramps :) may his memory live on!

He has his whole family and he's trying to lead them to God "even if I take this walk alone". He divorced Kim bc she wanted Hollywood over God. It's not an ego thing.

I get why people don’t like this album but I love it. Use This Gospel and God Is are 2 of my most listened to songs ever. Glad you liked the album too.

So I’m at the end of the video and there’s so much I want to say. So I might just reply to this comment a bunch of times as just a way to spit into the void. You just said “what went wrong” and a main factor in what went wrong was that Ye wanted to move his family out to Wyoming to get away from all the paparazzi and “evilness” that comes with the Hollywood lifestyle & Kim (more so her mother Kris) did NOT want to allow them to leave, because the Kardashian family is like the biggest thing IN Hollywood & they had just inked a deal with Hulu to create a new series of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Him not having any say in where his kids lived & trying to get out for his own sanity really crushed him & led to their divorce. (It’s not all on Kim he has his own shortcomings) but I feel like this was the main contributor to “What went wrong” After the divorce he just fell completely back into his vices & here we are today. JIK era was the clearest mind Ye we’ve ever seen. And I was getting chills all throughout this video because of where we’ve come to now. I hope he makes his way back to god, because he recently mentioned in an interview that he doesn’t really believe in God anymore because when he lost all of his money because of the Jew comments, he said he prayed and god wasn’t answering his prayers.

Kanye is literally pink from The Wall by Pink Floyd

Long time no see! I first found your channel back in 2021 when you uploaded a reaction to the College Dropout unedited on YouTube (back when you'd upload unedited videos on YouTube until they were claimed) and instantly became a fan, I think I actually subscribed to this Patreon the day you made it and it's been so long since I've interacted with the channel but life got in the way. Anyway, the reason I'm making this comment is because back when you reacted to Ye/KSG I made a comment about the Jesus Is King short film that was released alongside this album back in 2019, and you wanted me to remind you to check it out, it's been a while but this is your reminder! I don't think you can post links on Patreon, but if I'm not mistaken the movie was posted on archive.org in its original quality, if you have the time and you're interested, I think its a solid way to spend half an hour and has some really great renditions of songs both off of this album and some of his earlier work.

Who is asking for this shite

best reaction video i've seen in a while. thank you for bringing so much humanity to a genre of video that's so often devoid of it

https://youtu.be/uuMbC3zT2sU?si=dnGQfhj0O77DrKw3 The sunday service shows are great too.

apparently Ye loved be out in wyoming but kim did not like it and would keep brining YE back to LA

Hey Bob I wanted to ask if you would want to listen to this unreleased song/music video called I feel like that by Kanye, I think the song does a great job describing what Kanye feels like everyday. Btw great reaction :)

Its kind of funny but to me the sound on use this gospel sounds like a car door being left open. that of course has its own implications of perhaps him or god leaving the door open. If you are intested he did an amazing interview with Zane Lowe after this album was released when he was out in Wyoming and its really eye opening his difference in demeanour when he's all by himself in the middle of nowhere essentially. its a little long but definitely worth a watch if you have the time. You will definitely understand the man more in a way. https://youtu.be/QuOCvKvrwI8?si=LcQoxsOj2UHp1EBH

Donda + Life Of The Party

When you do donda, do the standard edition. The deluxe was randomized as a playlist. It’s not accurate

if theres one thing i can see if you get to Donda it might be a whole other rollercoaster considering its like an ode to his Mother, real emotional songs on Donda id love for you to check it out especially do the bonus tracks on the Deluxe version which maaan Andre on Life of the Party is a stinger it would be amazing, keep up the reactions Bob ❤️

Never stop doing your monologues/stories 🙏 hearing your thoughts on different things is the reason you are one of my favorite content creators and what you say always feels so sincere

Loved hearing your perspectives on faith and the additional commentary you provide as always! I had the pleasure of seeing the sunday service choir at coachella shortly before this released and it was a really cool, not religious myself, but the setup and layout on a small hill in campground felt small despite the amount of people there. Would be cool too to hear your thoughts on the Yandhi versions of some of these tracks and how it evolved into a gospel album.

You really should listen to the deluxe Tracks from Donda - Life of the party feat andre 3k is one of his best songs ever, and also never Abandon your Family and up from the ashes are really powerful

I'd still suggest listening to the deluxe tracks for donda. Theyre pretty good. The part 2 tracks on the other hand are pretty pointless and take a big chunk of album runtime. The 2s just have extra artist features.

loved ur opening monologue for this bob its always great to hear ur insight and the way u break things down and how personal you get on here.

Absolutely loved the introduction where you discussed your path with religion, I love listening to people's own journey wrt faith and belief, as everyone has their own story to tell, all of which have meaningful takeaways. Great reaction!

haven't watched any of your videos in close to a year being so busy but couldn't miss this one, great to see someone so moved by a project that inspired both confusion and apathy upon release. sadly a fitting moment to revisit this one given what's happened this week

I think a good supplement to the album(if u have time) would be to watch/listen to one of the Sunday Services from around this time https://www.youtube.com/live/zXwHM96rbyM?feature=shared they have gospel versions of older Ye songs and random other non gospel songs

Great review, Bob. As someone who started high school right after college dropout and has been listening to Kanye ever since, the last few years have been hard to watch. I’m now approaching middle age and it hurts to see someone whose music carried me through a lot of challenges over the last 20+ years seem like a shell of the person he was. Having said that, I really think you’ll enjoy Donda. As of now, I think it’s the last time we’ll hear a Kanye album with his patented drive and something to say, even if it’s a bit long. I hope he can find his way back to inner peace. P.s. you should definitely listen to the clipse. They have a couple classic albums. Be well

Another thing is (and people can correct me if I'm wrong) but when you said were did it all go wrong in the closed on Sunday video I believe Kim didn't want to move their whole family out to Wyoming like how Kanye wanted, she loves LA and thought it was a crazy idea.

let's go. can't wait for the donda reaction that album is special

I think some important context to the last shot in the Closed On Sunday music video is that Kanye at the time was singing with and “conducting” in some fashion that choir that surrounds him in the video every Sunday. For a LONG time. They called themselves The Sunday Service Choir and traveled around and did many shows where Kanye would mostly take a backseat to the choir and let them perform while he would come in occasionally and almost take the role of a preacher and just talk about God. Occasionally he would sing some songs from this album and very rarely he would sing old songs but with changed lyrics that praised god. He even wrote and staged a whole opera about some biblical story with the choir and performed it at the Hollywood Bowl. I have been a lifelong Kanye fan I have truly never seen him be as dedicated to something as he was to this Sunday Service concept. I say all this just to give some perspective on the image and your interpretation of ego/jesus complex (I know u didn’t directly say that, but ya know). I think there’s some of that at play, as it has been all throughout his career. However, I think he was more so truly trying to embrace the role of a preacher of the word of God to people who would otherwise not get it through hip hop/pop music. I mostly interpret the last shot as just being a visual of that. The preacher with a holy mission and his band that can help him.

thank you so much bob 🙏 cant wait for more kanye reactions

genuinely beautiful album and beautiful reaction, the only reason people hate on the album is because they wanted yandhi. if yandhi never existed, people would view the album for what it really is, an incredibly beautiful and well thought out piece of work

This album is good but a better version of this gospel hip hop genre is the good book vol 2 with the alchemist and budgie

Good to see you reacting to Ye again. I totally understand and relate to you taking a break from his discog. I’ve been a big fan almost my entire life and even I couldn’t listen to him for a few months.

Love that Gone and Saint Pablo are some of your favorites. Gone is soooo underrated.

The most over HATED Kanye album. It’s genuinely beautiful in my opinion

Big L would lowkey be the perfect follow up to this.

Holy moly