Kanye West Says God Wrote His Curse Filled Gospel Album

Kanye West accepts the Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, August 30, 2015.After gospel music star Kirk Franklin was pictured in a studio with rap mogul Kanye West, the rapper is revealing what the entertainment industry veterans spoke about.The 38-year-old "Yeezus" rapper said he and Franklin, 46, were discussing West's upcoming yet-to-be officially titled eighth studio album. West explained why he was referring to it as a gospel record.

"When I was sitting in the studio with Kirk, Kirk Franklin, and we're just going through it. I said this is a gospel album, with a whole lot of cursing on it, but it's still a gospel album," West said in an interview on Big Boy Radio.  "The gospel according to Ye. It's not exactly what happened in the Bible, but it's this story idea of Mary Magdalene becoming Mary."The rapper went on to reveal that he believed God, his late mother, Donda West, and his wife Kim Kardashian's late father, Robert Kardashian Sr., were helping him finish his album."I'm only doing 1 percent, 2 percent of the work and God is doing the rest of the work. My mom … had Teddy Riley change his flight and come back to the studio," West asserted. "Robert Kardashian is making sure that all the deals is getting done. He's still doing deals for controversial black people from up in Heaven."Last Monday, Kardashian, 34, posted a poll on Twitter to ask fans what they thought .