Kanye West brought his weekly Sunday Service gospel series to Coachella in celebration of Easter. The performance took place on “The Mountain,” a hillside within the Coachella campgrounds, and saw Kanye lead a gospel choir and band through an expansive 28-song set of covers and renditions of his own music.
The performance began with instrumental covers of Kool & The Gang’s “Summer Madness”, Stevie Wonder’s “Do I Do”, and The Gap Band’s “Outstanding”. The choir then emerged to sing gospel versions of Kanye’s owns songs, including “Ultralight Beam”, “Power”, “Otis”, and “Fade”, as well as new compositions called “We Have Everything We Need” and “Water”.
For the most part, Kanye left vocals to the choir, though he did take the mic for “All Falls Down” and “Jesus Walk”. Chance the Rapper also made an appearance to perform his part from “Ultralight Beam”, and DMX led the audience in a prayer.
Watch footage of the performance and see the full setlist below.
Kanye has hosted weekly editions of Sunday Service since early this year. Sunday’s performance at Coachella marked its first public staging.
Yesterday, Kanye made a surprise appearance during Kid Cudi’s own Coachella set, and together the pair performed songs from their Kids See Ghosts collaborative LP.
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this moment with kanye, cudi, chance and DMX really got me 😩 #SundayService #coachella https://t.co/uSExFWvfzw
— Genius (@Genius) April 21, 2019
Setlist:
Summer Madness (Kool & The Gang cover)
Do I Do (Stevie Wonder cover)
Outstanding (The Gap Band cover)
Ultralight Beam
Oh Lord, How Excellent
No Greater Love
Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1
Power
Lift Him Up
Ha Ya (Eternal Life) (The Clark Sisters cover)
Otis (JAY Z & Kanye West cover)
I Want to Thank You (Alicia Myers cover)
As (Stevie Wonder cover)
Back to Life (Soul II Soul cover)
Stormy Night
We Have Everything We Need (New song)
Never Would Have Made It (Teyana Taylor cover)
Follow Me
Fade
Brighter Day (Kirk Franklin cover)
This is the Day (Fred Hammond cover)
Lift Yourself
All Falls Down
Water (New song, live debut)
Ultralight Beam (with Chance the Rapper)
Jesus Walks
Master Blaster (Jammin’) (Stevie Wonder cover)
Nights Over Egypt (The Jones Girls cover)