Background
West first previewed the song's appearance from Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover's son Larry Hoover Jr. during the second listening event for Donda at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on August 5, 2021. [1] [2] Speaking to the Drea O Show in October 2021, Hoover Jr. revealed that the collaboration was initiated by their mutual friend GLC as a fellow Chicago rapper encouraging West to help his father out and he had already believed the co-founder could make a change. Hoover Jr. went to see West during a show and the rapper asked him, "Why don't you put something on the album?". [1] [3] GLC mentioned the idea again during the album's recording sessions of an appearance from Hoover Jr., who began songwriting in the studio and then sent a recording to West. The recording was done by Mike Dean after he had recorded for Hoover Jr.'s father around 20 years ago; he was unsure if it was going to be used initially. [1] [3] The song features a verse from rapper Jay Electronica that offers his cryptic worldview of Aztecs, Ottoman Turks, the Nation of Islam, Wakanda, Thelonious Monk, and modern imperialism. [4] "Jesus Lord" was released as the seventeenth track of West's tenth studio album Donda on August 29, 2021. [5]
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.