Kayne West…just 
his name makes your head explode. He is crass, vulgar, gross and profane. He sings about sex, drugs, guns. He drops the F bomb and the N word like glitter at a Christmas parade.
Kayne is misogynistic, sexist, racist and a pretty brilliant poet.
He talks about women like they are objects and he seems to almost hate a lot of white people.
He made a terrible video. He’s riding with a naked Kim Kardashian on a motorcycle.
He did that ridiculous thing on stage with Taylor Swift and it made him look like an absolute idiot.
He is a product of his culture and up bringing.
His vanity and ego are absurd. He compares himself to Jesus, God, Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein.
He’s also a Christian who struggles with his sins. He is brutally honest about his short comings, more so than many traditional Christians I know. He’s profoundly spiritual, more so than most of the pop/rap or rock and roll artist around. But that’s not what the media talks about and it’s so hard to get past his ego and vulgarity.
Yesterday, I decided to listen, actually listen to an entire Kayne West album and I was shocked. It wasn’t even a cleaned up Wal-Mart cd so I had to listen to all of it, the good, the bad and the depraved. The lyrics on Jesus Walks are so thoughtful, insightful and Godly.
Here’s a little bit
“God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
(chorus) Jesus walks
The only thing I pray is my feet don’t fail me now
And I don’t think there is nothing I can do now to right my wrongs
Jesus walks with me
I want to talk to God but I’m afraid because we ain’t spoke in so long
To the hustlas, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the strippers
Jesus walks with them.
We rappers are role models we rap we don’t think
I ain’t here to argue about his facial features
or here to convert atheists into believers.
I’m just trying to say the school need teachers
the way Kathie Lee needed Regis, that’s the way y’all need Jesus
So here go my single dog radio needs this
They say you can rap about anything except Jesus
That means guns, sex, lies, video tapes
But if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
Well let this take away from my spins
Which will probably take away from my ends
Then I hope it take away from my sins.
And bring the day that I’m dreaming about
Next time I’m in the club everybody screaming out
Jesus walks with me.”
Crazy right?
And I’m guessing when a 15 year old boy hears Kanye West saying he need Jesus, he’s more likely to listen and take it to heart.
So here I am a middle age white lady discovering there is more to Kanye West than the media leads us to believe. He is vilified in much the same way as Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali and rock and roll. And he deserves most of the criticism . But there’s something more in the man….you just have to dig down past the vulgarity and find the shining stone.