When he returns on вЂњUse This Gospel,вЂќ now given his biggest-ever platform to talk about his Road To Damascus conversion, Malice raps with the same hard precision that he used to bring when rapping about having rivalsвЂ™ body parts mix and matching, fella: вЂњA lot of damaged souls, I done damaged those / And in my arrogance, took a camera pose / Caught with a trunk of Barry Manilows / They sing a different tune when the slammer close.вЂќ He is such an author, he should smoke a pipe.ДЄnd yet вЂњUse This GospelвЂќ still lies inert until the sudden appearance of a lion-maned saxophone angel. On that song, West reunites Clipse, the great вЂ™00s Virginia rap duo who splintered a decade ago, when Pusha TвЂ™s elder brother Malice had a religious epiphany, changed his name to No Malice, and gave up glorifying his drug-dealing past. Up until his appearance, вЂњUse This Gospel,вЂќ like so many other Kanye West enterprises, is fun on paper but clumsy in execution. But in those 40 seconds, he sounds spectacular. Kenny G is only on вЂњUse This Gospel,вЂќ the last real song on Jesus Is King, for about 40 seconds. Kenny G - former Barry White sideman, current best-selling instrumental artist in history, favorite musician of circa-вЂ™92 Bill Clinton, rich celebrity happy to make fun on himself in Super Bowl commercials, living symbol of neutered vitality and watered-down mass-culture tastes - shows up at the end of Jesus Is King and blows that motherfucker wide open. ThatвЂ™s what happens on Jesus Is King, the exhaustedly awaited gospel-rap album that West finally released on Friday afternoon. Fifteen years ago, nobody couldвЂ™ve possibly predicted it: Kenny G not only appearing on a Kanye West album but having the single best moment on that album.

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