No, no official release is confirmed by R. Kelly or his team. The tracks Holy Jesus (January 2025) and When God Speaks (February 2025) are AI-generated, made by third-party producers (Lil R3Vi, MagXie_Dom) without its explicit permission. The artist, incarcerated since 2022, does not have access to the technical means to record or publish.
No major evangelical denomination (Assemblies of God, Baptists, etc.) promotes these works. Pastors like John Piper denounce an “instrumentalization of the sacred for the purposes of media rehabilitation”. The words, although biblical, are deemed “incompatible with the witness of repentance required by the Gospel.”
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