Kanye West Explains Comparing the Bible to 'The Matrix'
Kanye West recently likened the Bible to themes from the popular Matrix film franchise, one day after announcing that his eighth studio album would be titled "So Help Me God."
The 37-year-old rap and fashion mogul, spoke at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History on March 2. While speaking about his creative stream of consciousness, classism and elitism, West also managed to speak about applying the Bible to his own life.
"There's a Bible saying, 'No weapon formed against me shall prosper'. Recently I've been doing interviews and I've had to go back to this verse because I don't think there's a living celebrity with more weapons formed against them, but I also don't think there's one more prosperous," West said, in his speech, according to Oxford's The Tab. "So what weapons have prospered? The smoke and mirrors of other opinions."
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He went on to explain why he compared The Matrix to the Bible of the post-information age.
"What I said was The Matrix is like the Bible of the post-information age. I compared it like, when the hundred guys come at Neo, those are opinions, that's perception, that's tradition. Attacking people from every which angle possible," West said. "If you have a focus wide and master senseis like Laurence Fishburne and you have a squad behind you, you literally can put the world in slow motion."
The rap mogul went on to call himself a servant and speak about his responsibilities as such.
"Understand that I'm a servant. And with my voice, with my ability to build relationships with amazing people, speak to amazing people," West said in the speech. "Call Elon Musk out of the blue, or call Obama out of the blue…he calls the home phone, by the way. With that, I have a responsibility to serve."
West took to Twitter on Sunday March 1 to announce that his next album would be titled, "So Help Me God." The album is a follow up to his seventh studio album "Yeezus" which was released in 2013.
While it remains to be seen how much of West's self proclaimed Christianity will influence his new body of work, the rapper has been very vocal about his faith in the past. In a recent interview with BBC's Zane Lowe, West spoke about the upcoming album that he will release to the world on an unexpected future date.
"It's fun to work hard. We're being inventive," West said on the radio show. "The College Dropout came out of a fight to rap. This new album is coming out of a fight to design."
