Kanye West is officially totally nuts.

[Fr8monkey]

West has a new album coming out and is going to be on Tidal, a streaming service.

But many fans complained on Twitter about not wanting to having to buy a Tidal subscription to hear the album, while those who went to West's site were greeted only with an audio message from Yasiin Bey, a stage name for rapper Mos Def.

This came after a tweet from West, sent Saturday night as he waited to go on "SNL," saying, "I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt... Please pray we overcome... This is my true heart..."

He is currently $53 million in debt including a claiming a $16 million loss trying to launch his clothing line.

Now he wants the world to know his "struggle." He huffed about the people who knew about it and used it against him in negotiations. Imagine that. He begged a Mark Zuckerberg or Adidas to bail him out.

He declared himself a dreamer and an artist — the "definition of art" — and a truth-teller.

This is all coming from a gay-fish married to a hobbit.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I don't listen to his music so I can't really comment on that either way but from the personality I see on TV and the internet, I take him to be an megalomaniac in the extreme. Nothing he does or says surprises me anymore.

 

[Kyriakos]

I hope that the other main artists of our time are well-off, including Beyonce, Minaj and that unbest-Korea yesterday's news. It's a tough world for true artists

 

[Birdjaguar]

With $53 million in debt, maybe he needs to sell some stuff.

 

[Narz]

He's the definition of overrated. His only catchy song was golddigger. From what I read he's lying about being in debt.

He should get to grips with his issues with mommy & daddy. I suppose we all should but especially him. His talent to crying-out-for-help ratio is way outa whack.

 

[Fr8monkey]

I think it is for the attention. It has been a while, so he starts crap like this.

Also, the album came out on the 14th; and has been pirated over 500,000 times already!

 

[warpus]

What do you mean he's officially totally nuts, hasn't he always been like this? I don't follow his music or hijinx or anything, but I thought so...

Hilarious that he's $50 mill in the red too.. Man, some people and their money.. Learn some basic economics maybe and don't buy $20,000 shoes or whatever the hell he spends his money on...

 

[Kyriakos]

Fr8monkey may be correct, in that people like KW would indeed say crap like that even if not true, just to try to get noticed again... /meh

Didn't the great Kanye compare his musical works to The Pyramids?

Then again maybe he meant that Thales could measure his height by using a small pole and the shadows on the dirt.

 

[Fr8monkey]

Link to video.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Wow. Yet shouldn't show-hosts/media just not report on such crap? It doesn't serve anything.

 

[Fr8monkey]

Problem is, paying attention to attention whores is their job.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Doesn't that make them a huge part of the problem?

 

[warpus]

No, they are just showing what people want to see. The problem is all the idiots who care about celebrity gossip, royalty gossip, etc.

 

[Kyriakos]

No, they are just showing what people want to see. The problem is all the idiots who care about celebrity gossip, royalty gossip, etc.

That works in a spiral, though.

 

[Birdjaguar]

He was too easy on KW.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

It's a shame about Kanye. IMO My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is still one of the best albums of the 21st century, but once he came out in support of Cosby I was like, yeah I'm not doing this anymore.

 

[sophie]

Yeah but No More Parties in LA and Ultralight Beam are among the best work he's ever put out.

 

[warpus]

That works in a spiral, though.

Well I mean sort of, but we can't be surprised that our media is showing people what they want to see. They're trying to maximize profits, after all.