Kanye West and his renowned Sunday Service Choir decided to pay homage to one of the up-and-coming hip-hop artists of this current generation in Roddy Ricch, performing his hit singles "The Box" and "Ballin." While there has been turmoil in the midst of the Sunday Service Choir after supposedly 30 members of the collective were reportedly fired, they've been able to maintain a level of relevance by performing during NBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago, bringing the clan to Miami for Super Bowl weekend, and even honoring Kanye's friend and inspiration, Kobe Bryant with an exclusive one-time performance. Now, the Kanye West-led group is back with gospel renditions of one of the biggest hits of the year. 

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In a clip posted to Kim Kardashian's Instagram Story, Kanye West and his Sunday Service Choir patiently wait for the bass to drop in a dimly-lit, red-illuminated room. As soon as the beat comes in the choir begins flipping Roddy Ricch's infamous opening bars to "The Box," singing, "Pullin' out the coupe at the lot, gotta thank God for the drop..." 

Kanye West and his massive clique also performed a chilling version of Nas' "Everything" as well as some cuts from his latest LP, Jesus Is King (2019). Justin Bieber also made an appearance at the undisclosed location to perform Marvin Sapp’s legendary gospel single, "Never Would Have Made It." But while The Biebs might have increased the star power in the room, it was Roddy Ricch's "The Box" and "Ballin" that shifted the energy in the room. 

Check out Kanye West and his Sunday Service crew perform Roddy Ricch's "The Box" and "Ballin" as well as Nas' "Everything" in the videos provided below. 

Has Kanye West parted ways with his Sunday Service choir members? A new report suggests that nearly half of the 80-person traveling choir has been fired unexpectedly. According to AllHipHop, 30 people from the choir have been let go but their sources claim Kanye wasn’t aware—a revelation that the writer of the report made clear that they didn’t believe to be true. In a follow-up report, AllHipHop shared that many of the choir members quit their day jobs in order to fully commit to Kanye’s vision, so they have been left wondering about their futures.

Also, the outlet stated that members weren’t making as much money as people may have thought. “As far as pay, they were not paid particularly well, I was told, unless $500 for three days of work is good to you,” AllHipHop wrote. “I think they were motivated by more than that, my opinion.”

“They did not see it coming,” the outlet’s source reportedly told the writer personally. “This is a mix of people, many that are not young, and they still want to make it.” The source also said that the non-union singers were like “prey” because it may have been easy to take advantage of them. Meanwhile, Sunday Service recently made appearances in Miami for the Super Bowl and in Chicago for NBA All-Star Weekend.

A video that went viral over the weekend appeared to show Kanye West riding a horse in the middle of his Sunday Service ceremony. After struggling to gain control of the animal, the man atop toppled over and completely wiped out, likely suffering some minor injuries as a result of the hard fall. People began to spread the news like wildfire, peddling headlines like such: "Kanye West Falls Off Horse In The Middle Of Sunday Service." However, there was no such incident. Yeezy wasn't actually the man on top of the beast, leading Kim Kardashian to dispell those rumors and tell the true story. She got to the root of the issue after 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg had done their part in spreading the false narrative though.

Reposting a video that claims Kanye West is the man in the clip, both social media trolls entered the chat with their own versions of what happened. 50 Cent shared the video with the following caption, trying to understand why exactly a horse was in church in the first place: "Wait I don’t understand, why was he on the horse." On the other side of the spectrum, Snoop Dogg seemed to be fully aware that Ye was not actually pictured, saying: "Who is that n***a on dat nare."

Kim Kardashian took control of the fake news by urging the media to fact-check their stories before hitting the "publish" button. "This is not Kanye and this is not the Sunday Service Choir," said Kim before sharing a flurry of legitimate moments from Sunday Service this week. How funny would it have been if this actually was Kanye?