Kanye West slammed by fans for seven minute appearance in £23 a ticket Jesus Is King documentary

KANYE West’sbig comeback with new album Jesus Is King has been a 12-month-long car crash – rocked by countless delays and amounting to an underwhelming half hour of preaching dross.

And after it was finally released last week, any hope that the accompanying documentary will shed light on what the self-professed “greatest artist of all time” is actually thinking quickly proved misplaced after it opened this weekend.

Punters are already rightly condemning the 26-minute film, and you can hardly blame them after they were charged up to £23 a ticket to see it at Imax cinemas.

Like the album, which has been cut to even less than half an hour since I first revealed details of an unimpressive early version three weeks ago, the film is woefully short, and 12 minutes shorter than originally advertised.

But perhaps there is one saving grace — mercifully, the rapper barely even appears. It is 15 minutes into the action — and I use the term loosely — before he and wife Kim Kardashian are first spotted strutting around New York.

In fact Kanye is on screen for just seven minutes in all, and plays just one full track from the album. The rest is archive footage, with historic home video and clips from his Sunday Service ceremonies, in which he shares his wisdom since he found religion ahead of the new album.

Fans who queued for the first screenings in London this weekend were quick to condemn. One raged: “It was pretentious over-the-top tripe.

“We thought we were ­seeing a film about Kanye but instead we got 26 minutes of preaching and arty camera angles. For what I paid, it’s a complete rip-off.”

At almost a pound a minute, it’s hard to argue. And Kanye has already fleeced fans of more than a million dollars at the box office in its first weekend.

If I want spiritual insight I’d prefer to join my grandma at church — and sadly these days, I’d rather hear her rap too.

READ ON FOR MORE OF SIMON BOYLE’S BIZARRE COLUMN

bizbit

KASABIAN’s one-off gig in Leicester next year sold out in just 44 minutes. The event, which will be the band’s only concert in 2020, saw fans clamouring to get their hands on the 50,000 tickets on sale.

Tatt’s a nice top, Cara

SHE rarely shows off these tatts but Cara Delevingne gave her fans a glimpse in a new photoshoot for fashion brand Nasty Gal.

The inkings, which are artily placed under the supermodel’s boobs, read: “Don’t Worry” and “Be Happy”.

How very insightful.

She’s clearly not a nasty gal.

bizbit

JOHN Newman has vowed to take over a pub and buy fans unlimited “pies and pints” if they get his comeback track, Without You, into the iTunes Top 10. The Brit is currently at No85 and is quickly moving down the charts.

• GOT a news story? RING us on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk