By India McCarty
Rapper and singer M.I.A.’s upcoming album is “rooted in prayer.”
The album, titled M.I.7., will feature songs that are “rooted in prayer, the Book of Revelation and the Ark of the Covenant,” per a press release. It will also feature Kanye West’s Sunday Service gospel choir.
The tracklist includes songs titled, “Prayer 777,” “b. Sacred Heart,” “Calling” and “Ride the Sky.”
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M.I.A. already released single “Everything,” which features lyrics like, “He showed me his face, met me in every place // He led me out the dark of every single maze,” per Genius. “The wars, the enemy wage, they gonna pay // And God is gonna fill my spiritual case.”
The artist has been open about her conversion to Christianity, which took place in 2017.
“I had a vision and I saw the vision of Jesus Christ,” she said in a 2022 interview with Zane Lowe. “It’s a very crazy thing because it turned my world upside down. Because everything I thought and believed was no longer the case. And I think that was maybe a sign that something major was going to happen in the world and that people were needing to be introduced to this concept.”
M.I.A. said her conversion was “weird for America to process,” but said, “The history is, even if it costs me my career, I won’t lie. I will tell the truth, and I will tell you what’s on my mind and my heart.”
In a 2023 interview with Candace Owens on her Daily Wire show TABOO, M.I.A. shared more about her vision of Jesus.
“I had a vision of Jesus Christ,” she said. “He looked really strong. And it was the strongest thing I’ve ever seen….You want God to be like this insane concept or angel illustration, which no one can even perceive how to illustrate. You cannot draw a man and say, ‘that’s God. He’s going to bring salvation.’ But then, when I saw the vision, I was like, ‘I totally believe it.’”
M.I.A. added, “It’s kind of like, shocking, but [Jesus is] who I saw.”
“Even when I had no belief in Jesus Christ and Christianity, and even when I was 100 percent comfortable in Hinduism, it was a Christian God that turned up to save me,” she said in a 2022 interview with RELEVANT magazine.
M.I.7 debuts April 17.
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