Kanye West has announced that his much-delayed album Jesus is King will finally be released on 25 October.
The news was posted to West’s Twitter account with an image of the album on blue vinyl.
It is due on the same day that an accompanying documentary is scheduled for release in IMAX cinemas.
Jesus is King was originally announced for release on 27 September by Kim Kardashian-West, who shared the date along with an album tracklist.
However, this was later pushed back to 29 September, but the album never arrived and no explanation was given for the delay.
1/10 “I was the best new artist this year”
Kanye asserted this after losing the New Artist of the Year award at the 2004 American Music Awards
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2/10 “I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that’s living or breathing is number two.”
Kanye made this claim while appearing on the Wendy Williams show in 2007. He had recently released the album ‘Graduation’ to critical acclaim
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3/10 “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!”
In arguably the most famous incident of his career, Kanye bravely stole the microphone from then 19 year old Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech for the Female Music Video of the Year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
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4/10 “I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street and people look at me… like I’m Hitler”
Kanye said this during a mid-set rant while on stage at the Big Chill festival in 2011. Despite releasing the acclaimed ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ in 2010, he was still widely disliked following the Taylor Swift incident
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5/10 “I am Picasso. I am Michelangelo. I am Basquiat. I am Walt Disney. I am Steve Jobs”
Kanye compared himself to these visionaries in a mid-set rant on stage in Paris, 2013
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6/10 “My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
In 2013, Kanye opened up to reveal more Kanye. His pain is understandable, considering such performances as his at the BRITs in 2015, where he came on stage with an entourage of flamethrower wielding grime artists (pictured)
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7/10 “I have to dress Kim everyday so she doesn’t embarrass me.”
Kanye tweeted this in 2014, around the time that he was designing the first Yeezy range
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8/10 “By 50 percent [I am more influential than] Stanley Kubrick, Apostle Paul, Picasso… f***ing Picasso and Escobar. By 50 per cent more influential than any other human being.”
Kanye made this claim backstage after appearing on Saturday Night Live in 2016, he did not show his working out
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9/10 “My wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don’t agree with everything Trump does. I don’t agree 100% with anyone but myself.”
This quote followed Kanye’s recent expression of love for Donald Trump on Twitter, in which he claimed that he and Trump were “dragon energy”
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10/10 “When you hear about slavery for 400 years… for 400 years? That sounds like a choice.”
Kanye made this comment in a May 2018 interview with TMZ. He later clarified that, in saying slavery was a choice, he meant “we can make our own reality”
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1/10 “I was the best new artist this year”
Kanye asserted this after losing the New Artist of the Year award at the 2004 American Music Awards
Getty Images
2/10 “I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that’s living or breathing is number two.”
Kanye made this claim while appearing on the Wendy Williams show in 2007. He had recently released the album ‘Graduation’ to critical acclaim
Getty Images
3/10 “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!”
In arguably the most famous incident of his career, Kanye bravely stole the microphone from then 19 year old Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech for the Female Music Video of the Year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
REUTERS
4/10 “I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street and people look at me… like I’m Hitler”
Kanye said this during a mid-set rant while on stage at the Big Chill festival in 2011. Despite releasing the acclaimed ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ in 2010, he was still widely disliked following the Taylor Swift incident
PA Archive/PA Images
5/10 “I am Picasso. I am Michelangelo. I am Basquiat. I am Walt Disney. I am Steve Jobs”
Kanye compared himself to these visionaries in a mid-set rant on stage in Paris, 2013
AFP/Getty Images
6/10 “My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
In 2013, Kanye opened up to reveal more Kanye. His pain is understandable, considering such performances as his at the BRITs in 2015, where he came on stage with an entourage of flamethrower wielding grime artists (pictured)
Getty Images
7/10 “I have to dress Kim everyday so she doesn’t embarrass me.”
Kanye tweeted this in 2014, around the time that he was designing the first Yeezy range
AFP/Getty Images
8/10 “By 50 percent [I am more influential than] Stanley Kubrick, Apostle Paul, Picasso… f***ing Picasso and Escobar. By 50 per cent more influential than any other human being.”
Kanye made this claim backstage after appearing on Saturday Night Live in 2016, he did not show his working out
Getty Images for Yeezy Season 3
9/10 “My wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don’t agree with everything Trump does. I don’t agree 100% with anyone but myself.”
This quote followed Kanye’s recent expression of love for Donald Trump on Twitter, in which he claimed that he and Trump were “dragon energy”
Getty Images
10/10 “When you hear about slavery for 400 years… for 400 years? That sounds like a choice.”
Kanye made this comment in a May 2018 interview with TMZ. He later clarified that, in saying slavery was a choice, he meant “we can make our own reality”
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The weekend the album was due to drop, West held a number of his Sunday Service events and hosted listening parties for the album.
His last album, ye, was released in 2018, as was his Kid Cudi collaboration Kids See Ghosts. Another album, Yandhi, remains indefinitely postponed.
