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Kanye West’s Sunday Service Stripped Of Charity Status Over Tax Issues

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Kanye West has been through so many different eras that Sunday Service feels like decades ago. In truth, the rapper’s charity organization was launched in 2019. The organization was a catch all for the rapper during an explicitly Christian period in his life. He sought to incorporate his religion into his art and his music. As such, Sunday Service was given a tax exemption. The government decreed that it fell under the 501(c)(3) organization label, which means it promotes “religious, educational, or charitable” purpose. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case.

Kanye West’s Sunday Service was stripped of its charity status on May 14. The Sun reported that the IRS revoked the status on the grounds of improper tax filing. The organization failed to file a Form 990-series return or notice for “three consecutive years.” This will no doubt being a heartbreaking update for Kanye West, who claimed that spent $50 million of his own money on Sunday Service in 2020. The rapper was compelled to spread his Christian message, and thus paid to bring the Sunday Service Choir to join him at Coachella.

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Kanye West Has Been Less Involved With Sunday Service

“I spent every dime that I have for marketing from Yeezy on Sunday Service,” he told Nick Cannon in 2020. “Every dollar I had. I spent $50 million last year on Sunday Service… The Yeezys, they were selling themselves. So instead of paying for ads, I invested it in the church. I invested in spreading [the] gospel. I invested in saying Jesus’ name on high.” Kanye West’s involvement with Sunday Service has withered in recent years, however. The rapper has returned to making secular music with his VULTURES series. He’s also sparked controversy due to a string of antisemitic comments.

Kanye West helped promote the Sunday Service Choir album Jesus Is Born in 2019. Since then, however, the choir and the organization writ large have been left to fend for themselves. A second release, Sample Sounds, was released in 2022 to minimal fanfare. Jason White, the man who co-founded Sunday Service with West, spoke to Broadway World about the release. Tellingly, he did not mention West’s name once, despite their previous musical collaborations. “We’re really, really excited,” White stated. “To see how [the release] will spark creativity in so many different artists and producers.”

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YE to Host Sunday Service Choir Auditions at Donda Academy

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On behalf of Sunday Service, YE’s Donda Academy will organize Gospel Choir Auditions. Auditions will be held at Eighty Eight Studios, 11105 Weddington Street in North Hollywood, on Friday, May 20th from 3PM-7PM PT and Saturday, May 21st from 9AM-1PM PT.

Donda Academy has developed a new website that aims to encourage ideation, prototyping, and real-world implementation while also allowing students to grow in their faith and community through daily all-school worship and celebration at Sunday Service.

You can receive more information on the auditions below.

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Ye’s Sunday Service Choir Covers A Drake Hit In The Wake Of Their Recent Treaty

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During the most recent edition of Ye’s Sunday Service, his Sunday Service Choir introduced an unusual new selection to its repertoire: Drake’s 2018 no. 1 hit, “God’s Plan.” While the choir has played numerous contemporary classics over the course of the past few years, this one was different in that Kanye and Drake had been feuding for nearly the entirety of the choir’s existence. Although the origins of the feud remain unclear to this day, the performance of the new song was made possible by the recent ceasefire the two stars called at the behest of J. Prince and Larry Hoover Jr.

In fact, Ye was apparently so amped about their reconciliation, the choir not only opened Sunday Service with “God’s Plan,” but also reprised it after several Donda songs, according to HipHopDX. The performance may well have constituted a preview of Drake and Ye’s upcoming concert to benefit the elder Larry Hoover’s efforts to have his life prison sentence commuted, which the pair officially announced yesterday as well.

The concert is set for December 9 at the Los Angeles Coliseum and will see the two rappers join each other on stage for the first time in nearly a decade. The architect behind both the concert and the truce was apparently Houston impresario (and rumored threatening figure) J. Prince, who first posted alongside Kanye imploring Drake to bury the hatchet before the two rappers were seen together with Prince in a photo suggesting they’d done just that.

Kanye West And The Sunday Service Choir Opened DMX’s Memorial Service With A Soulful Medley

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The first of two memorial services for DMX began from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Saturday. The event was livestreamed to fans and supporters on YouTube as the venue was closed to only close friends and family of the late rapper. After a roughly two-and-a-half-hour delay, the service started with a chilling performance from Kanye West and his Sunday Service Choir. The rapper and the group took the stage in red hoodies and sweatpants to deliver a performance filled with gospel and soul records in honor of DMX.

Throughout their set, the Sunday Service Choir performed tracks that included Soul II Soul’s “Keep On Movin’” as well as the opening record in the classic film, Belly, which DMX appeared in. They would return later in the service to perform additional tracks like “Ultralight Beam.”

The opening performance comes after Kanye’s Yeezy brand teamed up with Balenciaga to release tribute shirts in honor of DMX. The release features an image of DMX between two crosses on the front and the phrase “In Loving Memory” on the back. The late rapper’s birth and death dates can also be found on the shirt’s left and right sleeves respectively.

You can watch clips from Kanye West and the Sunday Service Choir’s opening performance above and tune into the memorial service here. A second memorial service for DMX will be held on Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m. EST and air on BET.