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120 | Andre L. Price www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/2, 119–123 and nod your head. Additional themes that West touches on in the ten other tracks are judgement, baptism, and the experience of new life. The song “Everything We Need”, for example, deals with divine sufficiency post-conversion and God’s ability to provide. West says: We began after the storm inside Lay the land (ah), it’s just the morning light (oh, yeah) Switch my, switch my attitude I’m so, I’m so radical All these people mad at dude This for who it matter to What if Eve made apple juice? You gon’ do what Adam do? Or say, ‘Baby, let’s put this back on the tree’ ’cause We have everything we need. The storm inside is the tension between the life before and the life after con- version. After conversion, there is a realization of newness of life, “morning light”, that elicits a change in attitude, and it is because of this change in attitude provoked by the Gospel, West opines, that people are mad at him. For West, it seems that his recommitment to Jesus is an opportunity for a fresh start, evidenced by the line inquiring about Eve making apple juice and the listener doing what Adam did. West talks about the purifying experience of Christian baptism in the track titled “Water”. The lyrics are simple and the verses are terse. West says: The storm may come But we’ll get through it because of Your love Either way, we crash like water Your love’s water Pure as water We are water. It is unclear whether West has a sacramental imagination. It is possible that this track reflects his experience of watching his children being baptized at Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia’s main cathedral.4 While Kanye 4 Parke 2019.