10 Blatantly Unfinished Albums (That Were Released Anyway)

10. Kanye West - Jesus Is King

Initially intending to rapidly release a follow-up to his micro-album Ye in late 2018, it took numerous delays, a religious awakening, and an entire scrapped album for Kanye West to finally release his long-anticipated ninth studio record as a solo artist, in the form of 2019’s Jesus Is King.

Unfortunately, to say that this was not worth the wait is to put it mildly. With barely a memorable song on the album, Kanye’s second-shortest project (it only clocks in at two minutes longer than Ye) proves that even when writing religious records, Kanye can’t help but make music all about himself (“The greatest artist restin’ or alive” and “That’s why I charge the prices that I charge”, he offputtingly sings on “On God”).

While some of Kanye's forays into gospel are admirable (despite West's shaky vocals, "God Is" is a particular highlight), other songs feel like an attempt to recapture the lightning of his much earlier, and far superior, "Jesus Walks".

Thankfully, Yandhi - the almost-finished record Kanye scrapped for being too secular - was leaked online, with many fans seeming to prefer tracks from the axed project than those that made the final cut on Jesus Is King, and that's hardly surprising. Somehow feeling less developed than West's previous outing (despite having three more songs), the ten tracks on Kanye's first religious record feel, for the most part, bare bones and unrealised.