Jesus Is King Songwriting Credits by Kanye West

Jesus Is King is the ninth studio album by Kanye West, released in October 2019 on GOOD Music/Def Jam Records, a gospel rap album that followed West's widely publicized conversion to what he described as a born-again Christian faith, culminating a year of Sunday Service performances (weekly choir events held at churches and outdoor venues) in a studio statement that declared West's creative and spiritual pivot in explicit terms. West wrote and produced the album himself; the nine tracks run to approximately 27 minutes and feature gospel choir arrangements, biblical lyrical content, and a production palette drawn from contemporary gospel, soul, and rap, with input from frequent collaborators as well as new participants from West's Sunday Service ensemble. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 264,000 first-week units and won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album, West's first win in a category outside of rap, alongside the Grammy for Best Rap Album, which he shared with other nominees. Critical reception was divided between those who engaged with the album as a genuine spiritual document and those who found its 27-minute runtime too brief to constitute a full artistic statement on the themes it addressed. Jesus Is King is significant as the most decisive categorical statement in West's discography: it is the album on which he explicitly and formally declared a departure from secular commercial rap toward Christian music, a declaration that has shaped all subsequent output.