"Lord I Need You" is a song by American rapper Kanye West from his tenth studio album, Donda (2021). After the album's release, Briana Babineaux alleged that she was not made aware of the sample of "Make Me Over" on the song. Lyrically, it is themed around West's divorce from Kim Kardashian.
In August 2021, singer Briana Babineaux shared a since-deleted Instagram post saying that despite praise over her song "Make Me Over", she was not aware of the sample on "Lord I Need You" before the release of Donda. Babineaux declared that she would have appreciated knowing "before the album came out smh..." questioning, "Who does that voice sound like to y'all?"[1] The original composer of "Make Me Over", B.Slade, subsequently responded that Babineaux had never asked him to clear her rendition of the song when he wrote it completely, commenting West did not engage in any theft since he came to "the rightful owner of the song legally" by contacting him for approval.[1] After working on West's ninth studio album Jesus Is King (2019), record producer BoogzDaBeast brought 166 beats into his sessions with West in Wyoming, which "Lord I Need You" originated from.[2][3] In the lyrics of "Lord I Need You", West discusses his divorce from media personality Kim Kardashian.[4]
