Wednesday, March 27, 2013

'I Am A God': Kanye West Song Name Mistaken For Album Title In Earlier Reports










The internet had a field day Tuesday with reports that Kanye West was working on an album titled "I Am God," a rumor that seemed to originate from a parenthetical in a BBC post about what West and Kim Kardashian may name their child (apparently "North" is a name that's in the running).
Given West's habit of being outspoken (and a Rolling Stone cover in which he posed in a crown of thorns), many sites were eager to run with the unattributed factoid. The only problem is that that rumor appears to be a bit of a misunderstanding. A reliable source in West's camp tells HuffPost Entertainment that the title is actual for an upcoming single, and that the album's name has yet to be set. The track will be called "I Am A God" (emphasis added).
"We would never be so presumptuous or sacrilegious to call ourselves the supreme being," the source said. While everyone will have to wait for the actual song to parse the specifics of the song's message, the source hinted that the idea was generally that all people are manifestations of a higher power.
The title is also a reference to Psalm 82, which inclues the following:
I said, “You are gods,
And all of you are children of the Most High.
But you shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.”
West's songwriter and spoken word artist Malik Yusef corroborated this report in a tweet to Team Kanye Daily:


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