Kirk Franklin went onto the Beats 1 Live hosted by Ebro Darden to chop it up about Franklin’s upcoming album Long Live Love. During the interview, Franklin also dropped information on his relationship with Kanye West. Watch Kirk Franklin Below: Back in 2012, West visited Franklin out of the blue. West wanted to push the production level of gospel music to a ...

So on this Easter Sunday, as I prepared to watch the live stream of Sunday Service by Kanye West at Coachella, I waited with excitement because I had seen the previous clips on the internet and I wondered how they would execute it on such a big stage. I also had previously seen Kanye live during the Late Registration Tour ...

Much has been said about the Sunday Service music meetings of Kanye West. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s when West gathers outside with hundreds of people and a huge choir. He then recreates his songs or other songs in a gospel music style. By all accounts of people there and footage, they are all genuinely praising God. Now, this experience is coming ...

Growing up as a PK (Preachers Kid) who spent 6 days a week at some type of service, I had only heard a handful of hip hop records before moving to Charlotte, NC in 1995. All that would change a few years later when I went to purchase one of my very first albums: It’s Dark and Hell is Hot…the ...

Kanye West has been a controversial figure, to say the least in recent years. Amidst all the political dissent that the rap megastar created, he also released 2 seven-track short projects that gave listeners a peek into the mind of the Chicago native. One of these was a collaboration with Kid Cudi called KIDS SEE GHOSTS. We tried a concept, where ...

Yes, here I am, a few years later removed from saying The Life of Pablo by Kanye West is a gospel album. It was and yet it wasn’t, as confirmed by West himself, but the sleuthing I did was true. Well, I must be a glutton for punishment in the comments, so here we are again – is Kanye West’s upcoming album, ...

Kanye West has been pretty active on Twitter lately, mostly discussing his beef with Drake and Travis Scott. On December 15, however, West included two texts speaking about him finding faith again. Apparently Chance the Rapper and West chatted, and West has returned to God. Read Kanye West’s Tweets Below: You have to see and feel how happy I am ...

Flavor Fest, a leadership conference based in Tampa, Fla., has enlisted Syntax Creative CEO Timothy J. Trudeau to manage the Music Business Track at its 16th annual gathering from Oct. 6-9, and the track will include a premiere of N.D. Wilson's short film “The Hound of Heaven” starring Propaganda.

In the beginning of the month, we posted an article that sought to cover the growing trend of mainstream music doing “gospel music.” Some of the examples listed are Chance the Rapper, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, ...

A few weeks ago we posted an article that addressed the growing trend of mainstream music’s fixation of doing “gospel music.” The cited the examples of Chance the Rapper, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, DMX, and ...