You've done so much to welcome us to the east coast.
We have a thank you gift from the west coast.
Not only is this a gift from the west,
it quite literally is a West.
Our gift to you, Brooklyn, is a visit from Mr. Kanye West.
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Look at this.
[CHEERING]
[LAUGHS] Kanye, there you go, man.
It's exciting to have you here.
Thank you for coming.
KANYE WEST: Yeah, yes.
Kanye, all right, so your new album--
"Jesus is King" is the name of the album.
Yes.
When is this album coming out?
Is it coming out tomorrow?
It's going to be dropping 12:00--
12:00 AM. - So--
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Right now-- right now, it is available.
- Oh, it's out now. - Yeah, it's out now.
[LAUGHS]
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How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
You made-- not only did you make the album,
you made an IMAX movie, a companion piece to the album.
KANYE WEST: Yes.
And you brought something-- this is very cute actually--
your daughter, North. Can I show this, all right?
Yeah, yes.
We have a clip of-- well, roll that clip.
Here is your--
North dancing along to the movie.
Uh oh, you may have a little performer on your hands.
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That's cool.
Yes.
Are you, um--
- I want to say I-- - Yeah.
--love the fact that my daughter
wants to go to church and her--
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She has such a positive thought association to going to church
because it's outside of the traditional four walls
and outside of the pews.
And now that God has called me and I've--
I now have given my life to Jesus Christ,
and I work for God.
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KANYE WEST: Yeah.
Now, we have Christian innovation in our time.
There was a time when the Medici family
and all the greatest artists did work for the church.
And now, it seems like all the best designs and everything
have this adult edge to it.
And I have a family.
I have four children.
I've been married for five years.
And the prospective--
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Because you asked me a question last year, did--
you know, did having a daughter change my life?
And I've completely turned around
from what my perspective was last year to where it is now.
And I feel like there's so few individuals in a position
like mine to be able to give their opinion
and stand up and say that this is what family is about.
And I feel that God is using me and using the choir,
using my family to show off, because it's
like all these things--
how many things in your life, where it's like, this isn't
in service for God, but it seems like you're
going to get more out of it.
This is where you're going to get the better
job, better cars, all this.
But we're in complete service to God and--
JIMMY KIMMEL: Do you feel born again?
--this is describing-- [APPLAUSE]
What's that?
Do you feel born again, Kanye?
Do you feel like-- - Ah, yeah.
Would you consider yourself to be
a Christian music artist now?
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I'm just a Christian everything.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Uh huh. [LAUGHTER]
And everything. [APPLAUSE]
JIMMY KIMMEL: Everything. - Yeah
And you've done-- it's interesting
you said that about your daughter
because I think you made--
with your services, made church fun
to go to for a lot of people.
Yeah.
And people are saying, oh, gosh, I want to go to church.
And you never hear anyone say that really, I mean--
[LAUGHTER]
--certainly not young people.
And you're doing this thing where you're
bringing people together.
And, you know, that's-- that's pretty good, I think.
Oh, I know. [LAUGHTER]
I know.
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So tomorrow night, we have a big--
we have something very big.
Tomorrow night, Kanye will be back for a special performance
from his new album "Jesus is King", and--
and this movie, the IMAX movie, you
shot this in Arizona, right, in Flagstaff, Arizona?
Yes, James Turrell, an artist--
one of the greatest living artists,
Christian also, allowed us to use
Roden Crater, which is, I think, is
the eighth wonder of the world.
And I mean, it's just a beautiful place to go to visit.
A couple other things is--
I was thinking about how you won the money.
I just want to make a suggestion.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, yes. There's a guy here--
Buy--
JIMMY KIMMEL: Dave Johnson.
Dave won the lotto, hundreds of millions of dollars in lottery.
So I invest in land in middle America.
I have 12,500 acres in Wyoming right now.
So when we think about where we're spending our money,
because I answer that--
I saw the Gucci jacket, and I was like, OK, that's nice.
When we present ourselves on TV, we always have to show,
you know, this luxury--
I got a cheap-- cheap ass hoodie on, you know,
and I'm a billionaire.
So I want to show you the--
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Heh, and sorry I said ass.
My Christian scorecard is lowered for the day.
[LAUGHTER]
Uh, but to really sit down and talk because, when I first
got money, I didn't have a CFO and people who could
really show me, you know, how-- and I feel,
especially we're blacks.
We need to show each other other information of like what
to do with our money, how to design,
how to bring the families together.
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And I'm not saying this to just call out blacks,
but we are orphans in this country.
So we have no fathers that can really show us the way
of how to maintain who we are.
So now that I'm in this position,
I've been to the hospital.
I've been canceled.
And I'm here standing right here.
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Kanye, are you saying--
are you saying you want to get on a real estate
deal with Dave?
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, absolutely.
[LAUGHTER]
It's easy.
Well, I am--
I am very much looking forward to this performance tomorrow
night.
And before we-- we--
we get to that, obviously, we have a clip from your IMAX
movie, "Jesus is King".
Take a look.
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Kanye West, everybody!