Kanye West New Album Update: Rapper Announces Title ‘So Help Me God’
Kanye West has released the title for his new album. The 37-year-old rapper revealed to his 11.5 million followers on Saturday via Twitter that his seventh studio album will be titled "So Help Me God."
Along with the album title, West also posted a picture of four lower case m's that are connected by lines that form a diamond shape. According to E! News, the m's might represent the 13th century Monastic symbol of the Virgin Mary.
West has worked religion into his music before. In his most recent album, "Yeezus," West had a stage performer dressed up as Jesus during a tour. That album also had a track titled "I Am a God." In Kanye's debut album, "The College Dropout," one of his singles was titled "Jesus Walks."
"You know, what's awesome about Christianity is that we're allowed to portray God," West had said previously. "We're allowed to, you know, draw an image of Him, we're allowed to make movies about Him...So that's just what's really awesome about Christianity. That's one of the awesome things."
West's upcoming album currently has no release date. The rapper has hinted to the possibility that he will follow in the footsteps of Beyoncé and Drake and drop his album unexpectedly.
So far, West has either performed live or officially released three songs from this album. These songs include "Only One," "Wolves" and "All Day." Kanye also collaborated with Rihanna and Paul McCartney on "FourFiveSeconds."
The outspoken artist recently went on the Power 105 FM radio show, The Breakfast Club, to talk more about his upcoming album, which he said is about 80 percent finished.
West stated, "My last album was a protest of music. But this album is just embracing the music, embracing joy and just being a service to the people."
