(OPINION) CP – Kanye West said God has given him a platform to address the “beef” he’s seeing in the Christian community, specifically Christian radio stations not playing both gospel and contemporary Christian music — including songs from his album — which has created a division between white and black artists. West briefly spoke about the issue during a Sunday Service event at Greater Emmanuel Temple Church in Lynwood, California, on Sunday and seemed to suggest that programming formats

that mostly play one genre of music over the other instead of both reflects poorly on the American church and creates rifts in the body of Christ. “In service to God I got to address this, all this Christian beef that I be seeing. White gospel, black gospel. Do you know the Gospel? Are you really preaching?” West asked in a video from the event. “Look, Jesus died for our sins! It’s simple. If you believe that, that’s it,” he maintained. “That’s the devil causing these divides even in the Christian community.” READ MORE