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Kanye West On Past Struggles With Alcohol: ‘Devil, You’re Not Going to Beat Me Today’

By MyReligionIsRapAdmin

Posted on January 19, 2020

Kanye West has been public about his struggles with alcohol consumption in the past.

I give up drinking every week

— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018

Kanye spoke about his renewed commitment to Jesus Christ during his Saturday (1/18) appearance in Tempe, Arizona during the large evangelical prayer rally at Awaken 2020. After performing ‘Jesus Walks’ alongside his traveling ‘Sunday Service’ choir Kanye goes on to explain to the audience,

“They always say the devil try to play a trick on somebody, but its like God getting the last laugh…I started with this song, and this whole time, the devil thought he had me … This a Trojan horse if I ever seen one.”

“He brought back my clarity. That’s where I found the truth. See, I’ve been the mental hospital and back, working for the devil. They didn’t think I was gonna get out. They had already grabbed the shovels. They said, ‘There’s something wrong with his head. So his career is dead.’ … But Jesus saves. No matter how long you’ve been away, no matter how long you’ve been in the dark, the light is right there, ready to save—to give you the confidence.”

Ye then addressed his struggles with alcohol and beating the Devil, stating,

“I never thought about the effect alcohol could have had on my life. I was drinking on the red carpet, and then running on stage a few minutes later…And everyone around said, ‘Nah, he ain’t really no alcoholic.’ And then you get to the point where you’re drinking Grey Goose and orange juice for breakfast, thinking, ‘Nah, I ain’t really no alcoholic.'”

“There was some vodka in the refrigerator at my office, and sometimes I would just go ahead and take a drink from it in the middle of the day, and I was walking toward that kitchenette area, and I stopped myself and I said, ‘Devil you’re not gonna finna beat me today,’…And it’s something that we take on, day by day. Every day that I don’t pick up that drink, I beat the devil.”

Anyone interested can catch Kanye and the Sunday Service choir’s full performance below.