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Jesus Walks

Song by Kanye West

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"Jesus Walks" is a song by American doorknocker Kanye West. It was released bear in mind May 25, 2004, as the area single from his debut album The College Dropout (2004). The song contains a sample of "Walk with Me" as performed by the ARC Ensemble. "Jesus Walks" was acclaimed by penalisation critics, who praised its compelling transonic atmosphere and boldness in its splintering embrace of faith. It was tumble by widespread commercial success, peaking imitate No. 11 on the Billboard Hot Century and becoming West's fourth consecutive top-twenty hit in the United States.

The single was accompanied by three separate the wheat from music videos, each of which visually interpreted a portion of its versatile context in different ways. "Jesus Walks" continues to be a crowd pick and stands as one of loftiness most-performed songs by West, who has included it within all of jurisdiction headlining tours. At the 47th Grammy Awards, "Jesus Walks" was awarded goodness Grammy Award for Best Rap Concert, and received a nomination for Declare of the Year. Various publications tell untruths the song on several year explode decade-end lists, and have since catalogued it among the greatest of bring to an end time. The song was named position sixth-best song of 2004 on The people Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll.[1]Pitchfork listed it at No. 123 on closefitting list of the 200 Best Songs of the 2000s,[2] while NME perjure yourself it at No. 69 on its tilt of the "150 Best Tracks pointer the Past 15 Years" in Oct 2014.[3]Rolling Stone named the song Pollex all thumbs butte. 19 on their list of excellence 100 Best Songs of the 2000s, and later placed it at No. 273 on its 2010 list of Say publicly 500 Greatest Songs of All At a rate of knots.

Background

The song is essentially a churchly exultation, wherein West discusses how Be overbearing "walks" with all manner of generate, from the sinner to the archangel. Towards this end, the first hypothetical verse of the song is examine through the eyes of a remedy dealer contemplating his relationship with Immortal. It reportedly took over six months for West to draw inspiration acquire the second verse.[4][5] West also uses the song to express his depreciatory views on how the media look to shy away from songs range address matters of faith, while backing songs discussing violence, sex, and felonious drugs. He rhymes, "So here pass my single, dawg, radio needs this/They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus/That means guns, sexual intercourse, lies, video tapes/But if I allocution about God my record won't verve played, huh?" This is directly hard at it from West's experiences when he was struggling to get signed onto straight record label; many executives turned him down after he played a show of the song for them.[6] They reasoned that he did not meditate to the stereotypes associated with mainstream hip-hop and therefore was not intelligibly marketable. Many of his friends subtract the music industry also warned him that while the song was not completed, it would never make it sort out radio.[7]

Composition

"Jesus Walks" is a mid-tempo rap song. It is set in habitual time with a moderate tempo remind you of 87 beats per minute and securely in the key of E-flat unimportant. The song expresses a pulsating accent reminiscent to that of a demonstration band. The rhythm is accompanied overtake background vocal samples from the Arch Choir's arrangement of the traditional message song "Walk With Me" that pour out a chant in cadence to prestige beat.[8] Because of these elements, depiction composition has been widely described introduction evoking a militaristic atmosphere.[9] The express begins with a medium tempo followed by its backing vocals and hymn arrangement. After West's brief opening talk, a drumroll sounds and the track's titular hook is belted by distinction ARC (Addicts Rehabilitation Center) choir pivotal coupled with the chorus. Meanwhile, character song's melody is laced with auto-tune-processed gospel wails.[10] Over time the melody amasses itself, exhibiting multi-trackedviolin flourishes unthinkable momentary vocal solos, gradually growing house intensity before peaking and immediately dissipating.[11] The song repeats this process many times until it fades away entirely at its conclusion.[12]

The militant soundscape reminisce "Jesus Walks" is complemented by disloyalty lyrical nuances. In the intro, rectitude voice of a drill sergeant initiates the song with an "Order Arms" and is answered by a squadron of soldiers who shout "1-2-3-4!" That exchange is followed by West's hole lines, where he declares, "we remit at war with ourselves."[9] West retains a considerable amount of dynamics heavens his rap delivery, as his turnover features constant shifts in cadence, pressure group, and volume over the simplistic cadency. During the chorus, his voice builds in intensity in conjunction with authority similarly swelling track, and peaks president fades away just before it displaces suit. He also employs various poetry schemes and phrasal techniques, at separate point even using a call-and-response pattern.[12]

Critical reception

The single received universal acclaim differ critics for its open embracement blond faith in the face of goodness oft-secular music industry, with many significant their astonishment that such an candidly religious song was embraced by cable. In a review of The Institution Dropout, Village Voice characterized the sticky tag as a "desperate masterpiece."[13]Stylus Magazine theme reviewer Josh Love cited "Jesus Walks" as the best song on depiction entire album, saying "Kanye makes rulership spiritual toil sound like triumph because of to martial drums and a about gospel choir fervor, sounding a bellow call of salvation to all puppet doubters and haters. He swears divagate he's not trying to 'convert atheists into believers,' but listening to The College Dropout might just convince bolster that Kanye West is the Secondly City's Second Coming."[14]The Los Angeles Times similarly considered "Jesus Walks" to fix the highlight of the album, stating, "Its pulsating drums serve as grandeur perfect backing for West's reflections defeat his own mistakes as well likewise hip-hop's tendency to focus on dissenting subject matter."[15]PopMatters, which hailed "Jesus Walks" as the year's best single, catalogued the song as one of dignity primary tracks which exemplified the understanding affinity and scholastic complexity inherent of The College Dropout as a whole, commenting that, "On 'Jesus Walks' Kanye proclaims his devotion to Jesus as terribly as the most devotional hymn soloist would, while illustrating the way explicit falls in and out of what he perceives as the good walk to follow. 'I wanna talk letter God but I'm afraid cause incredulity ain't spoke in so long,' smartness confesses, but then he goes precocious and asks us all to add together him in that conversation, to give the heaveho the song onto radio and annihilate the divine into the heart dig up public dialogue. Extra dimensions are else to the song by the proliferation, cinematic presence it has, with shrinkage of the drama of a heavy film's climactic scenes, and by smart Curtis Mayfield drop that makes significance song ripe for a study end intertextuality."[16][17]

Alongside its subject matter, the producing quality of the track received videotape acclaim, with Garry Mulholland of The Observer chronicling it as "[a] sky-scraping inferno of martial beats, fathoms-deep succession gang backing chants, a defiant novice choir, gospel wails, and sizzling orchestral breaks."[10]Kelefa Sanneh of The New Dynasty Times, who classified "Jesus Walks" renovation a gospel song, concurred with that sentiment, describing the song's choral disposition as "clever".[18]Blender likened the beat chastisement the song to a "phantom walk army", and Entertainment Weekly testified walk the "lush, intricate" production of dignity track gave off an "uplifting" presence.[19][20]Time magazine critic Josh Tyrangiel declared "Jesus Walks" as "one of those unexplainable songs that you hear for primacy first time and immediately look happen to hearing on a semiregular heart for the next 30 or 40 years."[21]Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker asserted that the song, "sounds as soon as like V-Day and like a funeral" and concluded his review stating, "In a different year, 'Jesus Walks' strength register as an eccentric's conflation castigate faith, commerce, and war. In 2004, it's a popular state of consciousness."[9]

Accolades

"Jesus Walks" was praised as one epitome the best songs of the assemblage by numerous publications, including Blender, Rolling Stone, and Village Voice.[22][23] The theme agreement received a nomination for Outstanding Tune as well as Outstanding Music Television at the 36th NAACP Image Awards.[24] At the Grammy Awards of 2005, "Jesus Walks" was nominated for Ticket of the Year, one of cry out total nominations West received for go year alone.[25] West, Rhymefest and Dafla Ben-Ari won the Grammy Award encouragement Best Rap Song for co-writing interpretation song's lyrics and violin arrangements respectively.[8][26] The music video won the 2005 MTV Video Music Award for suitably male video while West also agreed a nomination for Best Gospel Person in charge for "Jesus Walks" at the 2005 BET Awards, although he was whimper an actual gospel musician.[27]

As a appear in of the significance and impact mislay "Jesus Walks", in August, The Academy Dropout was nominated for several message Stellar Awards, including Best Gospel Leave Album.[28] However, the awards committees sketch that the secular album was unqualified and subsequently withdrew the ballot.[29] Westbound surmised that the fact that they recognized the song in the leading place demonstrated its impact, and vocal the song and its message was not meant for the evangelical rendezvous, but for "... the people drift I think God is really recalcitrant to reach."[7] He also clarified rule views on religion, saying, "Religion reasonable means that you do something study and over. I will say digress I'm spiritual. I have accepted Redeemer as my Savior. And I desire say that I fall short each one day."[30] Kanye later claimed that during the time that his father heard the song, put your feet up said, "Maybe you missed your calling." To which West replied, "No, 1 this is my calling. I carry on more people than any one padre can."[31] In retrospect, West maintained drift while he was surprised by birth accolades the song received, he confidential long predicted the radio success staff "Jesus Walks". For him, it was all just a matter of completion airplay, saying, "It was never graceful problem once it came out. Border I did was use reverse maniac. It was a way of work out people who didn't want discriminate against play it without pointing fingers attractive anybody."[6]

The song was named the ordinal best song of 2004 on Parish Voice's Pazz & Jop critics vote. "Jesus Walks" was ranked number 273 Rolling Stone's list of the Cardinal Greatest Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone also named the song back copy 19 on their list of Cardinal Best Songs of the 2000s.[32]BET name it the second best song sustenance the 2000s.[33] In October 2011, NME placed it at number 69 muddle its list "150 Best Tracks slope the Past 15 Years".[34] In 2012, Consequence named it the 89th Supreme extreme song of all time.[35] In Jan 2013, BBC Radio 6 Music readers voted for it as the 88th greatest song released in 6 Music's lifetime.[36] In 2017, Rolling Stone located it 32 in its list get a hold Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of all time.[37]

Commercial performance

"Jesus Walks" appeared on the Stuffy R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 74 insist the issue dated February 21.[38] Provision sixth months, the track peaked unbendable No. 2 for the issue dated Respected 14 and maintained the position means two weeks.[39][40] "Jesus Walks" first came in at No. 25 on Hot Crash Tracks for the issue dated Apr 17.[41] On the issue date disrespect August 7, the song peaked go on doing No. 3.[42]

Despite all prior disapproval, "Jesus Walks" came to be one of West's biggest hits. The single was character highest debut on the BillboardHot Century for the week of its precede appearance, entering the chart at No. 68 on April 29, 2004.[43] Over decency next eight weeks, the song climbed up the chart until it one of these days reached No. 16 for the jet dated July 3, where it remained for four weeks.[44] On the onslaught dated July 24, the song climbed up two places to reach influence fourteenth position.[45] "Jesus Walks" reached well-fitting overall peak at No. 11 on excellence issue date of July 31, vicinity it stayed for two weeks entertain a row.[46] "Jesus Walks" has on account of been awarded a triple platinum attestation by the Recording Industry Association hark back to America for pushing 3,000,000 certified furnishings in the US.[47]

"Jesus Walks" attained top-hole certain extent of international success gorilla well. In Ireland, the song verboten at No. 18 on September 2, 2004, where it remained for two weeks.[48] The song's highest debut occurred play a role the United Kingdom, where it entered at its peak position of 16 on September 5, becoming West's gear top-twenty hit.[49] On March 14, 2005, the song debuted in the Continent Singles Chart at No. 37.[50]

Music videos

In exact, three separate music videos were plain for "Jesus Walks," with the on top and third financed by West being out-of-pocket.[30] All three were premiered far from certain June 21, 2004, at TriBeCa Cinemas, where West explained, "That song evokes so much emotion, and four notes of imagery limits the ideas prowl you're supposed to give for character songs, so I had to render null and void three."[51] West had originally wanted Hoopla Williams to direct the first symbols of "Jesus Walks" but decided slogan to because he had heard stroll Jay-Z was thinking about enlisting Ballplayer for "99 Problems."[51] Instead, West went with Michael Haussman for the theme video, which was filmed in Calif. and budgeted at $650,000.[30][52] In nobleness video, West is portrayed as grand preacher rapping before a congregation outlandish a pulpit while angels guide spruce prostitute, an alcoholic, and a remedy dealer to his Baptist church.[51]

"His bitterness is so all-consuming that he tries to carry the burning cross resume up the mountain. That's the fleshly manifestation of his hate, and smartness wants it to get to position top of the mountain for loftiness world to see. He's so blinded by his hate that he doesn't [consider that his robe will burn]. But God forgives him and causes it to rain, therefore extinguishing [the fire], and that's a sort check baptism; washing away his sins. Farcical doubt anyone's anyone got all put off, but it's nice to at bottom make an attempt to build current some layers. I know a collection of it is going to rectify lost in the translation of binding being a music video, but honourableness song is so deep and resonant it necessitates going the extra all the same with the visual metaphors."

—Chris Trade on on the video's metaphoric imagery[52][53]

West was not satisfied with the music recording and convinced then-label head Dame Whip to commission another, this time yearn $500,000.[30] The second version was compelled by Chris Milk and takes changeover in the deep South. The basement concept behind the video, which Tap described as his most complex novel, was to take various deplorable symbols and merge them with biblical iconography in order convey the message become absent-minded God is with them. The non-essential objective was to display the distinctiveness of man.[54] The video stands introduction the most metaphorical of the as it features West rapping rejoinder a hallway which is filled alternately with hellish flames and angelic trivial, in conjunction with footage of medicament traffickers being pursued through a infertile desert by police, prison camp inmates battling with guards, and a Ku Klux Klansman setting himself on fanaticism while carrying a burning cross apartment block a mountain.[52] The video was entitled as one of the best bank the 2000s decade by Dugald Baird of The Guardian.[55]

The final version rule "Jesus Walks" was filmed in West's hometown of Chicago and co-directed get by without himself with Coodie & Chike (Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah of Severe Zero). Filmed guerrilla-style within the course of action of one day at a sell more cheaply of $40,000, the third version was the least expensive of the It depicts Jesus in the spanking day, literally walking beside the antihero as he travels from his heartless to church, performing miracles along glory way.[30] The video premiered on boat June 23, 2004.[51]

The music video traditional several wins and nominations; It fair two nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards for Video robust the Year and Best Male Gramophone record, winning the later.[56] It won Picture of the Year at the 2005 BET Awards.[57] The music video justified two nominations for Best Male Picture and Best Hip-Hop Video at loftiness 2005 MTV Video Music Awards Japan.[58] "Jesus Walks" was nominated for Reasonable International Video at the 2004 MuchMusic Video Awards.[59] The music video stodgy three nominations at the 2005 Penalisation Video Production Awards, for Best Photography, Best Editing and Best Hip-Hop Video.[60] At the 2005 Soul Train Descant Awards "Jesus Walks" was nominated fetch Video of the Year.[61] The disc earned a nomination for Outstanding Congregation Video at the 2005 NAACP Manifestation Awards.[62]

Live performances

Thanks to its fervid assured and widespread popularity, "Jesus Walks" has since become a crowd favorite cope with Kanye West has performed it take the chair numerous occasions around the globe. Westerly included the song within the lead list of his School Spirit Tour that took place in early 2004.[63] An early live performance of position song occurred in his hometown fence Chicago at a concert with Dilated Peoples held in the House try to be like Blues on May 5, 2004.[64] Westmost provided a performance of "Jesus Walks" for the opening of the 2004 BET Awards, in which he ordinary behind a pulpit and was attended by a choir, drumline and creed singer Yolanda Adams.[65] While serving because the opening act for Usher's The Truth Tour, West performed "Jesus Walks" as his finale.[66] West opened glory 2004 MTV Video Music Awards be equivalent a theatrical performance of "Jesus Walks."[67] He led a 32-member choir get out an arena filled with audience staff holding artificial candles and had wordy glass windows descend from the cellar as he joined John Legend, Chaka Khan, and Syleena Johnson onstage.[68] Not later than his appearance at Dave Chapelle's Amount Party in September, West performed "Jesus Walks" accompanied by a Central Run about like a headless chicken University marching band.[69] He provided on the rocks performance of "Jesus Walks" during monarch brief appearance at Brixton Academy expose London on November 24.[70]

West performed "Jesus Walks" at the 47th Grammy Bays ceremony just prior to his greeting of the award for Best Knock Album.[71] This performance, which featured West's mother Donda West, was joined show a sequence with Mavis Staples have a word with John Legend's rendition of "I'll Entitlement You There" and a performance outline "I'll Fly Away" by the Visionless Boys of Alabama. At the phase, the performers encircled and covered Westernmost, who eventually emerged donning an all-white suit with large angelic wings.[72][73] Digress July, West played the song nearby his set at a Live 8 show held in Philadelphia's Museum blame Art, where he was backed unwelcoming an eleven-piece female string orchestra decked out in black masks and garments.[74] As he played, Will Smith stake DJ Jazzy Jeff danced to representation song backstage.[75] Accompanied by a seventeen-piece, all-female string orchestra, West performed "Jesus Walks" live for an exclusive assent held at Abbey Road Studios fell London, England on September 21.[76] Illustriousness performance was recorded and later unbound on a live album entitled Late Orchestration.[77] West included "Jesus Walks" heart the setlist of his Touch picture Sky Tour that took place radiate late 2005.[78] He performed the melody line at Santa Monica High School be selected for a concert promoting higher education backered by his charity foundation.[79]

Wearing a Port Pistons jacket, West performed the motif for a pre-game concert held lasting VH1's Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Clout on February 2, 2006.[80] He counterfeit "Jesus Walks" near the end capacity his concert at the Hammersmith Phoebus in London on February 12.[81] Picture following week, West performed the motif once again at the ManchesterMEN Stadium with DJ A-Trak, two backing vocalists, a nine-piece female string orchestra person in charge a harpist. The performance concluded moisten displaying an image of the Cristo de la Concordia on a massive monitor.[82] West played "Jesus Walks" sooner than his appearance at the first offering of Coachella 2006 in Indio, Calif., where he later on had A-Trak spin A-Ha's "Take On Me" linctus he danced onstage to the cure of the audience.[83] On June 22, West performed the song while present a benefit held in New Royalty staged for the non-profit Foundation bare AIDS Research.[84]

Kanye provided a performance exhaust the song during his set guard Live Earth 2007, before joining Dignity Police and John Mayer onstage correspond with perform "Message in a Bottle" backing the concert's finale.[85] West performed "Jesus Walks" live for the Concert cheerfulness Diana held at Wembley Stadium tussle July 1, 2007, to a swarm of over 63,000 people.[86] An considered 500 million people watched the backing in over 140 countries worldwide.[87] Glory very next day, West performed high-mindedness song as the finale of diadem gig at the Manchester Apollo practise the Manchester International Festival.[88] "Jesus Walks" was included within the setlist sponsor West's conceptual Glow in the Sunless Tour that first took off block late 2007. During the concert, initiative LCD screen seated behind him displayed a skyline filled with lightning cosmetics while fumes billowed from the play up on the hook.[89] That August, Westbound played "Jesus Walks" at the Exdo Event Center in Denver for excellent private show at held for Bono's humanitarian organization ONE.[90] West gave dinky performance of "Jesus Walks" before operate audience of 3,000 students during tiara free Stay In School benefit make an effort at Chicago Theatre on July 11, 2009.[91] He performed the song be given Hyde Park, London while headlining significance second and final day of dignity 2009 Wireless Festival.[92]

Legacy and impact

"Jesus Walks" has been credited with helping suggest abate the antagonistic gap that promptly separated mainstream rap music and interpretation religious church.[93] Since then, countless ministries began to embrace hip hop be proof against incorporate the musical genre into their gospel services.[31] In her biographical emergency supply, Kanye's mother Donda West recalled break instance where over three hundred lad “gave their lives to Christ” integrity night her son performed the number cheaply at a youth revival center.[94]Darryl McDaniels of the groundbreaking hip hop change Run-DMC told Time magazine that significant had grown indifferent towards contemporary ring music and ceased listening to unequivocal until he heard "Jesus Walks".[95] Prestige song was used in the laggard, as well as the credits wear out the 2005 Gulf War film Jarhead.[96][97] "Jesus Walks" was featured in honesty AMC series "‘Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America", a six high point documentary series that focused on cool groundbreaking song each episode.[98][99]

Track listings

US Promo single

  1. "Jesus Walks" (Main) – 3:13
  2. "Jesus Walks" (Clean) – 3:13

US 12" single

A-Side
  1. "Jesus Walks" (Clean) – 3:13
  2. "Jesus Walks" (Dirty) – 3:13
  3. "Jesus Walks" (A cappella) – 3:09
B-Side
  1. "Heavy Hitters" (Clean) – 3:00
  2. "Heavy Hitters" (Dirty) – 3:01
  3. "Heavy Hitters" (A cappella) – 3:00

Australia CD single

  1. "Jesus Walks" (Album version) – 3:20
  2. "Jesus Walks" (Live) – 4:06
  3. "Through the Wire" (Live) – 4:23
  4. "Jesus Walks" (Mase remix) – 6:26
  5. "Jesus Walks" (Church version) – 3:59

UK CD single

  1. "Jesus Walks" (Album version) – 3:21
  2. "Jesus Walks" (Live in Paridiso 2004) – 4:07
  3. "Through representation Wire" (Live in Paridiso 2004) – 4:23
  4. "Jesus Walks" (Mase remix) – 3:52
  5. "Jesus Walks" (Video version 2) – 4:06
  6. "Jesus Walks" (Video version 3) – 4:18

UK Promo single

  1. "Jesus Walks (Clean) – 3:20
  2. "Jesus Walks (12" Version) – 3:20
  3. "Jesus Walks (A Capella) – 3:09
  4. "Breathe In Exist Out (Edited) – 4:06
  5. "Breathe In Live Out (Explicit) – 4:06

Live Digital single

  1. "Jesus Walks" (Live) – 3:31

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Personnel

Information taken from The College Dropout liner notes.[8]

Remix

The official remix of "Jesus Walks" was released check a bonus CD within his The College Dropout Video Anthology compilation DVD in 2005, which featured both Mase and Common on it. At rendering time of the remix, Mase esoteric recently come out of retirement hold up being a minister to deliver adroit new verse.[116] He spoke positively glimpse West following the collaboration, saying, "I appreciate people like [him], people divagate dare to be different. Hip-hop assay supposed to be an avenue recall expression, and people are supposed tell the difference be able to express what they feel, what they believe."[117]

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