Kanye West + Dr. Dre's 'Jesus Is King 2' Album Has Leaked Online
Jesus Is King 2 appears to be a 15-song album with features from Pusha T, Eminem, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, Anderson .Paak, A$AP Ferg, Snoop Dogg and more.
Kanye West + Dr Dre (Twitter)
Kanye West and Dr. Dre's Jesus Is King 2 album has leaked online — and it looks like the highly-anticipated tunes have a slew of major names as features.
On Monday (Sept. 25), a social media user shared the full album on Reddit’s ThroughTheWire subreddit, which indicated that Jesus Is King 2 appears to be a 15-song album with features from Pusha T, Marsha Ambrosius, Eminem, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, Anderson .Paak, A$AP Ferg, and Snoop Dogg.
JESUS IS KING II, JIIK, 2
— WALPAPRS (@Walpaprs) September 26, 2023
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According to NME, among the new tracks are This Is The Glory ft. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Blood of the Lamb with Pusha T, L.A. Monster with A$AP Ferg and Our King co-featuring Dre and 2 Chainz.
As fans took to social media to share their thoughts, it became evident that the responses to the new tracks were a mixed bag.
“Man, that Jesus Is King 2 album is really bad. The lyrics don’t fit with the overproduced Dre production. This is the only scrapped album I’m glad he kept,” on fan posted to Twitter.
The Jesus is King 2 album is SO overproduced! Yikes
— Keys (@iamshaykeys) September 27, 2023
Others seemed to vibe on the project, with one declaring, “How the fuck did Ye listen to Jesus is King 2 and be like ‘yeah that’s heat, let’s not release it’”
Another agreed, adding, “The way Dr. Dre breathed new life into Jesus Is King 2 is crazy.”
This kanye and Dr dre jesus is king 2 leak is 🔥🔥
— DJ Tenyis (@djtenyis) September 27, 2023
JIK2 serves as a follow-up to his 2019 gospel album and was announced that same year, with the controversial rapper revealing JIK2 was “coming soon”. Despite announcing the follow-up, Ye went on to focus on other albums for a few years, including Donda (2021) and another impending record that is “in the works.”
The Flashing Lights rapper wrote at the time of the JIK2 announcement: “Jesus Is King is my first clean album.”
“I used to spend all my time trying to make my beats be mixed as good as Dr. Dre. Who knew all I had to do was do an album for God and then Dr. Dre would start mixing my beats? Spend your time on God, and he’ll handle the rest.”
Not much else was said about the new album, until Snoop Dogg shared an update in 2020, posting a video of Dre and West working in the studio together.
The leaked tracks come following seemingly endless controversies from West, who was suspended from Twitter in December last year for incitement of violence following a string of antisemitic tweets.
Earlier that week, Ye also appeared on Alex Jones's InfoWars, where he explicitly and repeatedly affirmed his admiration for Hitler and denied that the holocaust ever happened.
Eight months later, the Famous rapper would return to the platform (which has since been rebranded as X) - though the Wall Street Journal reported that Ye would not be able to monetise his account – a function introduced earlier this year by which people can subscribe to certain accounts.
Ye’s account was reinstated after X reportedly received assurances that he would not share antisemitic or harmful comments.
Given that Kanye has since declared he “likes Jewish people again” after watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street (???) we can only hope Yeezy sticks to his word…
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