Choir director Jason White initially expected to collaborate with West for a couple weeks. That turned into 10 months — with no end in sight
about the origins of the Sunday Service events, his initial doubt about West’s commitment to gospel, and the challenges of converting profane songs into inspirational ones.I left West Angeles in 2016. I go back to my local church; my brother’s the pastor there now. West Angeles has 25,000 members, sits about 6,000 people. Now I’m serving in my local church, playing in the 8:30 service. I’m kind of like Moses on the back side of the mountain.
I ain’t gonna lie, I was a little scared. Mr. West, back then, everything surrounding him — there was a lot of stuff going on. But I met him that night in rehearsal, and I could see something different about this guy. We started singing songs, and then he would call me over: “I don’t want to say those words.”“We’re not gonna do any profanity, any cussing, I want you to re-write these songs. I don’t want to sing my songs like they’ve been.
I’m thinking that we’re gonna do this two or three weeks. First week of January, 2019, Kanye’s gonna do this week of two, he’ll get sick of it and move on. Week after week, Monday or Tuesday, Ray would call: “This week we’re gonna sing blah blah blah.” Mr. West would have different directions for us every week. After the fifth week, we’re adding horns, adding drummers, and I’m like, what is this turning into? Then Mrs. West calls it Sunday Service, and it took on a whole ‘nother spin.
I was doing stuff with Whitney before she died. I was doing stuff with Diddy. So I didn’t worry about backlash from the church. I knew that I was called to something different. I knew God had linked me to the world, not necessarily just his church. God had called me to be a light. People believed in the God in me, knew I wasn’t gonna do nothing salacious or crazy.Ray and I would be driving, but Kanye always had the vision. He saw it.
He really started re-writing songs, R&B songs, and turning them into Christian music. That’s where the flips would come from. Nikki Grier is amazing, man. We pulled in some other arrangers, and we would meet with Ray, he was like our music supervisor. Why don’t we try some Mary J. [Blige]? “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman?The community, musicians, actors, they just started coming. Then we would see L.A. Reid just show up.
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