‘S.N.L.’ Premiere Meets Impeachment Head-On, but Not Shane Gillis - The New York Times

A certain amount of tension always precedes a “Saturday Night Live” season premiere, but this weekend’s curtain raiser, kicking off its 45th year, seemed tenser than usual.

Beyond the typical curiosity about how the show would shake off the cobwebs of its annual summer hiatus and whether new cast members would gel with the veterans, “S.N.L.” had two big questions to answer: How would it tackle a politically tumultuous week in which Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump? And how — if at all — would it deal with the controversy surrounding Shane Gillis, who was hired as a featured performer and dropped before the season started, after videos surfaced in which he used racial slurs and other bigoted remarks?

The first question was addressed right away in the show’s cold open. Despite his frequent grousing to the contrary, Alec Baldwin was back in his recurring role as Trump, placing an anxious phone call to his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani (played by Kate McKinnon). “Nobody’s going to find out about our illegal side dealings with the Ukraine,” McKinnon assured him. “Or how we tried to cover up those side dealings. Or how we planned to cover up the cover up.”

Baldwin asked her, “Rudy, where you right now?”

“I’m on CNN right now,” McKinnon answered.

As is “S.N.L.” tradition, a series of cast members appeared in subsequent phone calls as members of the Trump administration and its associates: Aidy Bryant as Attorney General William P. Barr; Beck Bennett as Vice President Pence; and Alex Moffat and Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

“Did you take care of that thing in Russia for me?” Baldwin asked them. “What thing in Russia?” Day said. “The treason,” Moffat replied.

Bowen Yang, a new featured performer, appeared as Kim Jong-un of North Korea, who offered Baldwin his advice on how to deal with the whistle-blower. (“You have a big ocean in your country?” Yang asked. “O.K., send whistle-blower to the bottom of there.”) After further appearances by Chris Redd as Kanye West, Kenan Thompson as Don King and Cecily Strong as Jeanine Pirro, Baldwin found himself in a final conversation with the actor Liev Schreiber.

“I told you, Mr. President, Ray Donovan’s a fictional character,” Schreiber explained to him.

Baldwin replied, “If you can’t do it, can you connect me with John Wick?”

Mea Culpa (Or Was It?) of the Week

While “Saturday Night Live” has a history of using its own airtime to acknowledge and apologize for its missteps, the show did not take on the Gillis controversy directly. But in his opening monologue, the host, Woody Harrelson, obliquely addressed its subtext — whether intentionally or not — in a riff about immigration, cultural sensitivities and comedians who are constantly called on to say they are sorry.

After a few jokes about his unexpected status as a “fashion icon,” Harrelson said:

I wasn’t born yesterday. I didn’t just get off the boat. Oh, jeez. That’s ironic. That sounds like I’m slandering immigrants. I’m not. I think immigrants make this country great. But let’s face it, most of them, they don’t come by boat anymore. They just walk right in. We see that every day on the news. Well, Fox News anyway. Oh, jeez. If what I just said offended Fox News viewers, I apologize. And if I hurt the one Fox viewer who is also an immigrant, well, I apologize to you, madame first lady.

And so on, through a series of equally awkward faux gaffes and apologies.

Other Political Sketch of the Week

A segment billing itself as a CNN town hall on impeachment offered another opportunity for the “S.N.L.” cast to try out or refine their impressions of the Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination in 2020: a first wave included Moffat as Beto O’Rourke (“Can I say a few words in 8th grade Spanish?”); Yang as Andrew Yang; Redd as Cory Booker; Colin Jost as Pete Buttigieg; and Chloe Fineman, a new featured performer, as Marianne Williamson.

A second, more star-studded round focused on Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Warren (“I hope you guys enjoyed hot girl summer, ‘cause now it’s school librarian fall”); Larry David as Bernie Sanders (“I’m so excited to be back and to ruin things a second time”); Harrelson as Joe Biden (“I see you, I hear you, I sniff you, and I hug you from behind”); and Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris (who described herself as the kind of fun aunt — “a funt” — who “will give you weed but then arrest you for having weed.”)

Other-Other Political Sketch of the Week

A political round-table parody hosted by Bryant made use of flashbacks, costume changes and the unshakable pessimism of a panelist played by Thompson to consider the likelihood that, for all the firestorms that President Trump has faced, “Ain’t nothing going to happen,” as Thompson’s character puts it. (The sketch was also distinguished by the accidental on-screen appearance of a person helping to change Bryant’s costume, after which the actress broke character and couldn’t stop laughing.)

‘Weekend Update’ Jokes of the Week

At the “Weekend Update” desk, the anchors Jost and Michael Che continued to riff on the impeachment inquiry into Trump.

Jost:

This week, President Trump was accused of a shady, mafia-style shakedown of the Ukraine. But luckily Trump’s lawyer was able to smooth it over with professionalism and class. [Video of Giuliani on Fox News, telling other guests to shut up.] By the way, that looks like the world’s angriest game of Guess Who? And now Democrats are moving towards impeaching Trump, which should feel like a huge, historic moment. But with Trump, even impeachment just feels silly. Like, the movie “Nixon” was a serious film directed by Oliver Stone. The movie about Trump is going to be from the dudes who brought you “American Pie.” And by the way, the one thing we haven’t heard from the White House all week about this is a denial. Trump just keeps saying that all the information is bad because it’s second hand. It’s like if the cops asked you if you murdered someone, and instead of saying, “No, I didn’t,” you said: “Who told you that? Ron?”

Che, after noting his frustration at how long it would take to remove Trump from office, added: “I bet somebody explained how long impeachment takes to John Wilkes Booth and he was like, O.K., well, where’s he at right now?”

Fake Movie Trailer of the Week

If you had any lingering curiosity about seeing the “Downton Abbey” movie, this satirical trailer will suck it right out of you. The “S.N.L.” parody features a close approximation of the sumptuous production value seen on the TV series and in the movie (as well as McKinnon’s dead-on impression of Maggie Smith). But, as a voice-over informs us: “The beloved television show is now a feature film. And it’s mostly about cleaning.”

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The Irishman Movie Review: Martin Scorsese on Netflix - Vulture

Al Pacino in The Irishman. Photo: Netflix

Martin Scorsese ranges towards extremes, which is why he’ll be a manic show boater in one movie and practice rigorous self-abnegation in the next. But his gingerly-paced, three-and-a-half-hour The Irishman is something new: a self-abnegation movie set in the place where he normally showboats — the gangster dens of New York and other urban crime hubs, among bosses, lackeys, hitmen, and their families, real and “made.” Union halls, too, since the film is built around the 1975 killing (presumed, no body found) of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. By design, it’s an old man’s movie, and not just because it’s narrated by the elderly title character, Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), from a wheelchair in a Catholic convalescent home. Scorsese has consciously put a cap on his adrenaline. Enriched beyond his dreams by the folks at Netflix and pressed to assemble a veritable Rat Pack — aging Scorsese vets De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel, plus Al Pacino, a guest star from the other landmark gangster movie of his era, The Godfather — the director has made his most stylishly daring film: one that is pointedly sapped of style.

Consider the violence. The Irishman has no flashy-set-piece killings, no whip-pans to carnage, no scenes of mayhem suitable for re-watching while playing air-guitar. (No Rolling Stones!) For a hit in a barbershop, the camera follows the killers from behind and then comes to rest in front of some flowers — we only hear the shots. Sheeran fought in some of the grisliest, most protracted battles in World War II’s European theater (122 days in Anzio), and the detachment with which he came home to America seeps into all the film’s murders. It’s ugly, a waste, but it’s what it is. This is not De Niro the mythic executioner who vaulted over roofs in The Godfather Part II or embodied the dark soul of urban paranoia in Taxi Driver. He’s not agile or picturesque and certainly not courageous. Scorsese stages his kills as brusque, arrhythmic, ungainly — pop-pop-pop from behind and that’s it. Apart from his Judas Iscariot moment (betrayal being a lifelong Scorsese fixation), Sheeran does what he’s told to do with no evident emotion. It’s a job, like house painting.

The Irishman is, in fact, closely based on Charles Brandt’s I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa. It’s a good, messy book that further dispelled (for at least one reader) the conclusion that Kennedy was assassinated by a lone nut who was then spontaneously taken out by a grieving nightclub owner. The paint is blood, the patois representative of how gangsters talk in Steven Zaillian’s subtle, shapely screenplay. Even the most bloodcurdling figures like Tony Salerno (Domenick Lombardozzi) speak in euphemism and metaphor, not because they’re poets but because they’re disconnected from the horror they perpetrate. They’re thoroughly banal. Al Pacino’s Hoffa seems to earn the bosses’ wrath not only for threatening to take control of the Teamsters’ pension fund but for being blunt, unmannerly.

The movie is framed by Frank’s final days in a convalescent home, but it’s largely a flashback with its own flashbacks. The main thread is a long but mundane ’75 road trip with Frank at the wheel, his sometime boss and patron Russell Bufalino (Pesci) in the passenger seat, and the men’s wives in the back. They’re headed to a wedding with stops to collect payments from business owners on the way, but the vibe is so flat that it’s eerie. Something bad is coming, which is why Frank can’t get it out of his head — but he also wants to tell us how he met Bufalino (cute, in a gas station), how he made his bones stealing sides of meat, and how he began to blow up cars and warehouses and finally people for the likes of Russ and Angelo Bruno (Keitel) and Felix “Skinny Razor” DiTullio (Bobby Cannavale). Most of these men are as colorless as they are powerful — apart, of course, from Hoffa, for whom Frank goes to work at Bufalino’s request as an aide and bodyguard.

The Irishman gives you no indication that this is the Teamsters’ last hurrah, that the future — sans Hoffa, under Ronald Reagan — would make strikebreaking respectably mainstream. In the early part of the film, their antagonist is President John F. Kennedy and his brother, the attorney general, who launches a campaign against organized crime that organized criminals find inexplicable given their help (in Illinois in particular) in securing Kennedy the presidency. The bosses and the unions will stick with Kennedy because he has promised to help them reclaim their precious Havana from Castro; but after Frank delivers a truckload of weapons to a motley group of soldiers in South Florida, things go, well, South.

The attorney general’s grilling of Hoffa is rich in period detail, but the movie is not designed as an epic, like The Aviator. It’s a film of faces. Odd faces, at times. Faces that — thanks to computer “de-aging” — don’t always match the voices and bodies. Grateful to relive the past with these beloved movie stars, I mostly pushed the dermal irregularities from my mind, though when Pesci’s Bufalino phones Hoffa to recommend “that kid I was talkin’ to you about,” it takes a moment to register it’s De Niro. The time machine can travel only so far back.

But it’s great to see De Niro back with Scorsese, who needed a break from Leo and all those kid actors. After years of doing anything and everything and not seeming fully invested (like Anjelica Huston, I’ve wondered, How big is his nut?), De Niro is once more inspired to test himself. His Frank is a man who feels nothing specific yet is in evident pain throughout — which sometimes manifests itself in a toothless grimace that recalls Bela Lugosi but more often translates into stammers that suggest inner panic. He is most of all befuddled by his own actions — a weird but fascinating quality in a protagonist. And who can resist seeing him across from Keitel and Pesci?

At the premiere New York Film Festival press screening, I heard all sorts of huzzahs about Pacino — and he is wonderful — but it’s Pesci who thrilled me to the core. A pop-top in Raging Bull and especially Goodfellas and Casino, he plays Bufalino as almost supernaturally focused and watchful, always hypersensitive to other peoples’ rhythms. Who could imagine Pesci triumphing as a man who looks for equilibrium, who seeks to modulate every encounter, who accepts that murder is inevitable but sadly, seeing in it a sign of failure? I thank the gods of acting that he came out of retirement to do this.

And Pacino? Scorsese nudges him out of his familiar rhythms, evidently refusing to let him do the kind of freestyle acting that he fancies is bebop but is more often ham. This is a “head” Pacino performance, not a cojones one. On the stump, Pacino’s shoulders go stiff and he jerks in the manner of Richard Nixon — but Nixon’s manner might well have rubbed off on the real Hoffa. It’s plausible. Zaillian’s firm dramatic beats keep Pacino in the moment, and it’s a joy to see him go eye to eye with the superb Stephen Graham as the febrile Anthony Provenzano (Tony Pro), each man staring daggers that they seem one moment away from materializing and flinging. Most of all, Pacino lets you feel Hoffa’s relish for the job, which is partly legitimate and partly based on patronage and bribes and occasional rough stuff. It merges with Pacino’s relish for these co-stars and this script.

It’s fun to see Welker White as Hoffa’s wily wife, Jo — White was the girl with the hat in the coked-up climax of Goodfellas — along with assorted not-de-aged faces of the actors playing mobsters and union men. But the subplot featuring Frank’s hyper-attentive daughter Peggy (Lucy Gallina as a girl, Anna Paquin grown up) isn’t woven gracefully into the narrative and sticks out.

The Irishman (which will have a limited theatrical run beginning November 1 and head to Netflix on November 27) doesn’t fully earn its epic running time. But it’s overlong, it’s not overscaled. When Scorsese sets out to make an epic — in, say, The Aviator or Gangs of New York — he often loses the pulse or goes to too flamboyant lengths to speed it up. After Raging Bull, his adrenaline was a little suspect, much of it born of real filmmaking passion but some of it spurious, suggesting a chef who snorts a line of coke and dances around a kitchen yelling, “Can I cook!” There’s a faint suggestion here that he regrets some of his past pyrotechnics, that he sacrificed depth for momentum. For Scorsese, the slowing-down in The Irishman is radical, and it pays off in the long series of final scenes in which the characters are too old to move as they once did. They can’t hide inside motion, and so Scorsese doesn’t — and the upshot is one of his most satisfying films in decades.

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Metallica Scraps Rest of 2019 Tour as Lead Singer James Hetfield Enters Rehab - TheWrap

Metallica lead singer James Hetfield has re-entered rehab, forcing the band to has postpone its upcoming concert tour in Australia and New Zealand.

“As most of you probably know, our brother James has been struggling with addiction on and off for many years. He has now, unfortunately, had to re-enter a treatment program to work on his recovery again,” the band announced in a string of tweets on Friday.

The 56-year-old singer-songwriter has previously discussed his struggles with addiction and alcoholism, particularly in the 2004 documentary “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.”

Also Read: Metallica Singer James Hetfield Lands First Acting Role in Ted Bundy Biopic

“Fear was a big motivator in that for me,” told podcaster Joe Rogan two years ago. “Losing my family, that was the thing that scared me so much, that was the bottom I hit, that my family is going to go away because of my behaviors that I brought home from the road. I got kicked out of my house by my wife, I was living on my own somewhere, I did not want that. Maybe as part of my upbringing, my family kind of disintegrated when I was a kid. Father left, mother passed away, had to live with my brother, and then kind of just, where did my stuff go? It just kind of floated away, and I do not want that happening. No matter what’s going on, we’re going to talk this stuff out, and make it work.”

The statement by the band, which also includes drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Rob Trujillo, said that tickets already purchased would be refunded.

According to the band’s website, Metallica’s March 28 benefit concert in San Francisco is still scheduled, as is a South American tour set to begin in April 2020.

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Justin Bieber posts old snap of himself and wife Hailey ahead of wedding and Kylie Jenner is amazed - Daily Mail

'Where it all began!' Justin Bieber shares sweet throwback snap of himself with wife Hailey ahead of their second wedding... as Kylie Jenner gushes over couple

• Justin Bieber, 25, and Hailey Baldwin, 22, are set to marry at the Southern-themed hotel in South Carolina
• Last week it was reported that the couple will exchange their vows on Monday 30th September, following a civil ceremony in September 2018 

By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline

Published: 10:53 BST, 28 September 2019 | Updated: 13:08 BST, 28 September 2019

They're reportedly set to marry at the Montage Palmetto Bluff hotel in South Carolina on Monday, almost a year after their legal ceremony at a New York City courthouse. 

And ahead of their second wedding, Justin Bieber, 25, took to Instagram to share a sweet throwback photograph of himself and wife Hailey Baldwin, 22, which left Kylie Jenner gushing over the couple. 

In the old snap, a youthful-looking Hailey can be seen with her arm on the baby-faced singer's shoulder after they first met back in 2009, following an introduction by her father, Stephen Baldwin.

Amazing! And ahead of their second wedding, Justin Bieber, 25, took to Instagram to share a sweet throwback photograph of himself and wife Hailey Baldwin, 22

Justin captioned the epic throwback: 'My wife and I :) where it all began,' with Kylie Jenner commenting: 'This is amazing.' 

The sweet post comes just days ahead of the couple's second wedding, as they're reportedly set to exchange vows on Monday. 

Hailey and Justin recently sent out comic book inspired save the dates for September 30.

The couple had previous put off their big wedding so that Justin could deal with his mental health, something that has taken priority for the pair over the past year.

Wedded bliss: The couple are reportedly set to marry in South Carolina on Monday, almost a year after their legal ceremony at a New York City courthouse

Supportive friend: Justin captioned the epic throwback: 'My wife and I :) where it all began,' with Kylie Jenner commenting: 'This is amazing' (pictured with Hailey in 2015)

South Carolina ceremony: TMZ recently reported that the couple will wed at the Montage Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, a waterfront locale near the May River

Last weekend TMZ reported that Justin and Hailey are planning to marry at the lavish Montage Palmetto Bluff hotel after falling in love with its Southern charm.

Sources close to the couple also told TMZ that party planner extraordinaire Mindy Weiss will be organising the festivities. 

It comes after Justin took to Instagram to ask viewers what he should wear for the lavish occasion, as he posted snaps of five different wacky suits.  

Bachelorette babe: Meanwhile, Hailey enjoyed a wild bachelorette party in LA recently

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From the flattering ruched material, to the figure-hugging bodycon design, this little number was perfect for the celebrations. We love the handy clear straps too, which Hailey decided to remove for the night.

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Girl time: The niece of actor Alec Baldwin looked every inch the bride-to-be as she was joined by her pals, including Kylie's sister Kendall, for dinner and then dancing at Delilah nightclub

On hold: The couple had previous put off their big wedding so that Justin could deal with his mental health, something that has taken priority for the pair over the past year

'Help me choose a tux for my wedding. It’s between these three,' Bieber, who is set to wed Hailey Bieber at the larger ceremony, wrote before posting two more options.

In the photos, models can be seen wearing different Halloween costumes that include: a short sleeve black romper tuxedo, a pink tuxedo with a matching pink top hat, a rainbow striped tux, a teal tux with bananas on it and a white tux splattered with blood.

Fortunately for the Sorry hitmaker, his wife of just over one year has a good sense of humour, as she commented: 'I like the last one.'

A timeline of Justin and Hailey Bieber's romance, as the couple prepare to say 'I do' again in front of loved ones in South Carolina

 By CHRISTINE RENDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey will be exchanging vows once again at the Montage Palmetto Bluffs in South Carolina on Monday, over a year after tying the knot at a New York courthouse in secret. 

But getting to happily ever after definitely happen overnight.  

As the couple prepare to say 'I do' again, this time with friends and family present, it's time to take a look back at Justin and Hailey's relationship, from their first meeting as preteens to their rekindled romance nearly 10 years later.   

Hopelessly devoted to you: Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey will be exchanging vows once again at The Montage in South Carolina on Monday, over a year after tying the knot at a New York courthouse in secret

2009: Justin and Hailey first meet

Video of the couple being introduced to one another by Hailey's father Steven Baldwin resurfaced in recent years. 

Recorded in 2009, the video captures a shy and young Hailey shaking hands with the pop sensation. 

Future Mr. and Mrs. Bieber: A young Hailey Baldwin is introduced to Justin Bieber by her father, Stephen Baldwin, in 2009 

2015-2016: Going public

The pair were in similar social circles, but it wasn't until 2015 that it was clear they were more than friends. 

The famous duo rang in 2016 together with a vacation to Anguilla, where Justin posted a photo of them sharing a kiss. 

At around this time, the couple acknowledged they were seeing each other, non-exclusively. 

Sealed with a kiss: The famous duo rang in 2016 together with a tropical vacation, where Justin posted a photo of them sharing a kiss

'We are not an exclusive couple,' Hailey told E! at the time. 

Justin also admitted Hailey was someone he 'really' loved, but wasn't ready to devote himself to a relationship. 

'What if Hailey ends up being the girl I'm gonna marry, right? If I rush into anything, if I damage her, then it's always gonna be damaged,' he told GQ. 

Alas, the timing wasn't right for the pair. Justin ended up moving on briefly with Sofia Richie.   

New flame: The pop star moved on from Hailey with Lionel Richie's daughter, Sofia Richie, in 2016

2017: Justin reunites with his first love 

The Baby hit-maker rekindles his relationship with his on-off girlfriend, Selena Gomez. 

In an interview with Billboard, Selena admitted she never stopped caring for Justin.  

'I'm 25. I'm not 18, or 19, or 20. I cherish people who have really impacted my life,' she said. 'So maybe before, it could have been forcing something that wasn't right.

'But that doesn't mean caring for someone ever goes away.'

This ends up being short-lived as well. 

Together again: Bieber and Selena enjoyed a brief rekindling of their relationship in 2017

2018: Hailey and Justin get back together   

Right when it seemed they were really done, Justin and Hailey get back together. 

And the couple were not shy about it either. 

The lovebirds were often pictured packing on the PDA for all to see throughout New York City. 

Bling bling: Baldwin showed off her massive engagement ring while cuddling Justin

July 2018: They're engaged! 

Just over a month after reigniting their romance, the couple were engaged. Justin proposed to Hailey during a romantic getaway to the Bahamas with a massive diamond ring. 

September 2018: Husband and wife 

Justin marries Hailey at a courthouse in New York City. 

September 2019:

The couple will be tying the knot again in front of friends and family at the luxury Montage Palmetto Bluffs resort in South Carolina on September 30, 2019. 

So in love: After a roller coaster start to their relationship, Justin is now officially married to Hailey 

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Metallica cancels Australia, New Zealand tour as lead singer reenters rehab - Fox News

Metallica said Friday they are canceling an upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand because lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield, 56, is reentering an addiction treatment program.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 12: (L-R) Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and James Hetfield of Metallica perform on Lands End stage during the 2017 Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park on August 12, 2017 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Getty)

“We are truly sorry,” the band said in a statement to fans posted on their Instagram. “As many of you probably know, our brother James has been struggling with addiction on and off for many years.”

METALLICA DONATES MORE THAN $277,000 TO PEDIATRIC CANCER HOSPITAL IN ROMANIA

The note from band members Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo said they plan to head back to the Southern Hemisphere as soon as the band’s health and schedule permits.

“We are devastated that we have inconvenienced so many of you, especially our most loyal fans who often travel great distances to experience our shows,” they said.

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The band said all concert tickets will be refunded.

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2019-09-28 08:20:41Z
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‘The Irishman’ Takes Bows At New York Film Festival World Premiere – Update - Deadline

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Kanye West Is Releasing New Album Jesus Is King on Sunday, Kim Says - Pitchfork

Kanye West’s new studio album Jesus Is King was originally slated for release today (September 27), however the album has yet to materialize. After hosting a Sunday Service performance in Detroit, as well as a listening event at the city’s Fox Theatre, Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian West has announced that the new album will arrive Sunday (September 29). “Kanye is doing a listening session in Chicago tomorrow, then NYC Sunday” Kim wrote in an Instagram story (viewed by Pitchfork). “He’s dropping the album Sunday. Just a few final tweaks to the mixes.”

In the same Instagram story, Kim also mentioned that during the event in Detroit (titled “Jesus Is King: A Kanye West Experience” Kanye showed “a small clip” of the making of his IMAX film Jesus Is Lord.” I can’t wait for you guys to see this @imax film in October,” she added.

Jesus Is King was initially teased back in August, when Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian West hinted at its release by tweeting a photo of a handwritten tracklist and the date September 27. Tonight, Kim tweeted a new handwritten tracklist, featuring a track called “New Body,” which Kanye has reportedly been working for some time.

Roughly a year before teasing Jesus Is King, Kanye announced that his next album would be titled Yandhi. The project was originally slated for a release date of September 29, 2018. The album did not arrive on that date, and was subsequently delayed, and then postponed indefinitely. Ye’s last words on Yandhi were: “I’ll announce the release date once it’s done.”

In addition to dropping ye in 2018, Kanye also executive produced albums for PUSHA-T, Nas, and Teyana Taylor, and released Kids See Ghosts, his joint LP with Kid Cudi. Read “5 Takeaways from Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s New Album, Kids See Ghosts” over on the Pitch.

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2019-09-28 03:34:00Z
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