Kanye West Trying to Bring Back Donda Academy in L.A. Area Church - TMZ

Kanye West Donda Academy Might Get New Life ... Inside SoCal Church

11/30/2022 12:45 AM PT

Kanye West is trying to respire caller beingness into his Donda Academy -- this clip successful a new, holier location, adjacent though the schoolhouse has each but crumbled.

Pastor Ronald Nagin of Cornerstone Christian Church tells TMZ helium and Kanye person had 3 face-to-face meetings implicit the past month, and Ye expressed involvement successful leasing immoderate of the religion abstraction successful Northridge, CA -- successful L.A.'s San Fernando Valley -- for the Donda Academy.

We’re told Kanye believes CCC is an betterment from Donda's aged abstraction successful Chatsworth -- wherever Ye reportedly relocated to past year. Prior to that, Donda Academy was operating retired of Simi Valley.

As for what Ye likes astir Cornerstone, Nagin says helium likes the information it offers a bigger abstraction with much classrooms and a sanctuary. Worth noting … if Ye pulls the trigger connected this, he’d lone beryllium utilizing a information of the grounds -- not each of the religion property.

While Nagin notes this isn’t a done woody yet, the wheels are successful question … due to the fact that we’re told Cornerstone’s lawyers are drafting up a lease for Ye close now.

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It’s not a one-way thoroughfare of involvement either … Nagin says the religion views Donda Academy arsenic a bully acceptable for them too. We’re told Kanye's precedence is providing bully acquisition successful a Christian environment, which is close up the church's alley, arsenic Cornerstone has had galore schools run retired of the religion successful the past.

Of course, the biggest contented -- Kanye losing his students and teachers, who've precocious fled for different programs. If he's palmy successful locking down the caller space, he'll person to enlistee a batch of caller students, and person the aged ones to travel back.

If you’re wondering whether Kanye’s recent bigoted and antisemitic comments are going to beryllium a hindrance, the reply is nary -- Nagin tells america helium considers Ye a bully feline and a friend. He adjacent swung by this week for service, abstracted from the negotiations implicit the would-be rental space.

It’s absorbing … connection is, Donda Academy has been a spot of a bare-bones cognition that’s sometimes open, sometimes not amid Ye’s erratic behaviour -- so, uprooting it again wouldn't beryllium arsenic unusual arsenic it seems from the outside.