{"id":186652,"date":"2020-01-21T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=186652"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:47:17","slug":"how-i-battled-devil-alcohol-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=186652","title":{"rendered":"How I battled devil, alcohol &#8211; Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Popular American Rapper, Kanye West has revealed his struggles with alcohol and devil during his transition journey to being a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a prayer rally in Arizona tagged \u2018AWAKEN2020\u2019 organized by a group of anti-gay\/LGBTQ pastors, Kanye who is now a \u2018born again\u2019, opened up on how his spiritual journey with God helped his mental condition and saved him from alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere 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. I was walking toward that kitchenette area, and I stopped myself and I said, \u2018Devil you\u2019re not gonna finna beat me today,\u2019 and it\u2019s something that we take on, day by day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day that I don\u2019t pick up that drink, I beat the devil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been to the mental hospital and back, working for the devil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Jesus saves. No matter how long you\u2019ve been away, no matter how long you\u2019ve been in the dark, the light is right there, ready to save to give you the confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye West has been in the media of late over his new religious shift. Since the beginning of 2019, West has spent each Sunday leading church services called \u2018Sunday Service\u2019 featuring a choir singing gospel covers of various songs.<\/p>\n<p>He also released a new album titled \u2018JESUS IS KING\u2019 after many delays on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>The album is more like a Christian album, with informal prayers.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular American Rapper, Kanye West has revealed his struggles with alcohol and devil during his transition journey to being a Christian. Speaking at a prayer rally in Arizona tagged \u2018AWAKEN2020\u2019 organized by a group of anti-gay\/LGBTQ pastors, Kanye who is now a \u2018born again\u2019, opened up on how his spiritual journey with God helped his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,5081],"class_list":["post-186652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-kanye-west"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}