Kanye West Defends T.I. In Sunday Service Rant At Skid Row

Kanye West picked a humble venue for the one-year anniversary performance of his Sunday Service shows: LA’s Skid Row.

Over the weekend, the producer took to downtown LA’s Union Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter that offers food and spiritual guidance to those in need, to host the usual choral performance — and to do some preaching.

“I ain’t tellin nobody what to do, I’m expressin’ what I’ve been through. ‘Cause you know people love to take a soundbite and say, ‘This was not exactly devil-approved by the internet,’ ” says producer Yeezus in a video acquired by TMZ. He then appears to defend rapper T.I., who received much public condemnation in November for bragging about regularly having a doctor check his daughter’s hymen to confirm her virginity.

“They tryna play T.I., but he’s talkin’ about somethin’ that’s God-approved,” says West in the video. The statement is met with silence from the audience.

“I definitely saw a strong, compelling vision with the homeless problem, and I know that we can find a solution, worldwide solution” he continues, to applause, before launching into a nearly unintelligible sentence about Elon Musk and seemingly stating that Sunday Service provides “an alternative to opioids” and “an alternative to pornography.”

West has previously attempted to end homelessness by building a fleet of “Star Wars”-esque low-income housing shelters in a California forest.

Last week, West dropped a Sunday Service album on Christmas Day, and earlier this month he painted himself in head-to-toe silver for the debut of his first opera. Joel Osteen is reportedly in talks to take Sunday Service on tour.

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