Kid Rock Taps Lil Wayne for '7 Sins' on Christian Album 'Halfway to Jesus,' Moves Eminem to New Song 'Heal My Faith'

Three days before release, the tracklist changed. Kid Rock's upcoming Christian album, Halfway to Jesus, is set to arrive on Saturday, October 17, and its most discussed collaboration now looks different from the version announced earlier this month. According to Consequence, which first reported the updated tracklist, Lil Wayne has been brought in to appear on the song '7 Sins' — the slot originally announced for Eminem. Eminem has not been removed from the album. He now appears instead on a newly added song titled 'Heal My Faith.' Both changes were confirmed by Kid Rock himself in a social media video and in an updated track listing he posted alongside it.

The revised running order, as reported from the tracklist graphic Kid Rock posted on October 14, runs to 17 songs. '7 Sins,' now featuring Lil Wayne, sits third, and 'Heal My Faith,' featuring Eminem, follows two tracks later in fifth position. The title track features Gary LeVox and Jimmie Allen, and the album closes with 'God Bless The USA.' Whether Eminem's contribution to 'Heal My Faith' is the verse originally recorded for '7 Sins' or an entirely new performance has not been clarified — Consequence noted that point remains unclear ahead of release.

What Kid Rock said

In the video announcing the change, Kid Rock acknowledged that the planned Eminem collaboration had drawn a mixed reaction online, and presented the reshuffle plainly: Eminem is off '7 Sins,' Wayne is on it, and Eminem is still on the album on another song. He also used the announcement to describe how the record as a whole was made. The point he returned to, as reported by Consequence, was that the people who built the album — featured guests, musicians, songwriters and engineers alike — do not all think alike. They come from different backgrounds and hold different political views, and the record was made together across those differences, which he said made him proud of the result.

That framing is not new with this announcement. It echoes the album's foreword, obtained by Complex earlier this month and quoted in Consequence's reporting, in which Kid Rock singled out his gratitude to the guests who joined him, especially Eminem, a friend of nearly four decades. In the foreword's account, the two have talked about the fact that they differ politically and on other things while remaining friends throughout, and he expressed hope that the collaboration might serve as an example for people who have lost friends or stopped speaking to family members over disagreements. The '7 Sins' shuffle does not change that underlying story: the album still contains both men, now on separate tracks rather than the same one.

Two very different histories

The two guest spots carry different weights because the histories are different. '7 Sins' is Kid Rock's first collaboration with Lil Wayne, according to Consequence — two major-selling artists whose careers have overlapped for decades without previously landing on a record together. Wayne leads Young Money and remains one of the most prolific featured artists in hip-hop, so his appearance on a Christian album by a rock artist is, on its face, the kind of cross-format booking that draws attention on its own.

The Eminem connection is much older. The two Detroit-area artists go back to the late 1990s: Eminem appeared on 'Fuck Off,' a song from Kid Rock's 1998 album Devil Without a Cause era catalogue, and Kid Rock later returned the favour by appearing in the video for Eminem's 'Berzerk' in 2013, as Consequence's reporting recounts. That nearly 40-year acquaintance is the context Kid Rock himself emphasised in the album's foreword — the collaboration was presented from the start as a friendship that has outlasted public disagreement, not as a novelty booking. Moving the feature to a song titled 'Heal My Faith' keeps that theme legible in the tracklist itself, whether or not that was the intention behind the change.

Why the swap matters for the release

Last-minute tracklist changes this close to a release date usually signal trouble; here, the reporting points the other way. Nothing has been delayed — the October 17 date stands — and no guest has been cut. What changed is the arrangement of the album's two biggest hip-hop names, days after the original pairing became the story of the rollout. The swap also arguably balances the record better: Wayne gets a standalone marquee moment on '7 Sins' rather than sharing the announcement oxygen, and Eminem's feature becomes its own event five tracks in instead of the album's single talking point.

Halfway to Jesus is, by design, an unusual record to categorise — a Christian album by an artist whose catalogue runs from rap-rock to country, carrying guests from across genre and viewpoint lines, with a title track featuring a Rascal Flatts frontman and a country-soul singer. Whatever listeners make of the music when it lands on Saturday, the rollout has already made its central claim concrete: the collaborations were assembled across difference, and when one arrangement drew fire, the response was to rearrange rather than remove. Listeners will be able to judge the result for themselves on October 17. For more of the week's music stories, see our coverage of U2's 2027 tour announcement and John Legend's Muse in the news section.