Grab the popcorn: Kanye West's nonstop tweets are going strong
In case you haven’t heard: Kanye West is back on Twitter after a lengthy hiatus.
If you are, by any chance, following the rapper/clothing designer, the rapidly draining battery of your phone certainly will alert you that he’s returned. Since West returned to the social media platform last week, he has been making up for lost time, tweeting a near-nonstop deluge of posts for fans to puzzle over.
Some of these tweets are, from a practical standpoint, useful in terms of his career — he tweeted on Thursday that he’s got two albums coming in June (one of his own, and another created with fellow rapper Kid Cudi and other artists). And he’s showing off sneak peeks of his fashion line here and there, for those who are fans of that.
Otherwise, it’s classic Kanye at level 11, which means a whole lot of … ranting about things that don’t immediately make clear sense. If there’s any theme that seems to poke through in his dozens of tweets, it seems to be a reach for clarity.
truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I'll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
But West being West, he also has an unnerving habit of bouncing from one unrelated topic to another. One example:
I really love my Tesla. I'm in the future. Thank you Elon.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 23, 2018
At press time, West had worked his way through a frenzy of contemplative thoughts about free thinking, including posting a long series of videos from Dilbert creator/Trump supporter Scott Adams (West himself famously said he would have voted for Trump). He then followed those with this sage observation:
new ideas will no longer be condemned by the masses. We are on the frontier of massive change. Starting from breaking out of our mental prisons.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 23, 2018
But then he abruptly switched gears yet again:
I feel like im 18 year old again when I make beats for Nas
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 23, 2018
Feeling a little dizzy? By the time you read this, West will have certainly written at least a dozen more posts — so rest assured, you aren’t alone in your confusion. Fans expressed a variety of reactions to the rapper’s epic tweet-a-thon, ranging from scathing to amused to just plain awestruck.
Kanye’s shallow, banal attempts at profundity are… embarrassing and the way people act like he is doing more than offering up trite aphorisms need to recognize.
— roxane gay (@rgay) April 22, 2018
I’m so shocked that clearly unstable person Kanye West is into clearly unstable people!!!
— Superpredator (@nickadamsweb) April 23, 2018
If you don’t follow @kanyewest then what are you doing with your life?
— HAKEEM. (@hiiikeem) April 23, 2018
If your songs are like your recent tweets, I’ve been missing out.
— The Wako Kid (@OldGlory7476) April 23, 2018
@KimKardashian please get your husband
— hey maid! I see you got your maid outfit on (@EmeeJadee) April 23, 2018
Look, @kanyewest we as the people are glad to have you back to yourself but please PLEASE give our battery a break before We turn these notifications off
-everyone
— Papa flurrrrt (@Arcade4You) April 23, 2018
— M4A Now (@zachdeluxe) April 23, 2018
West has mostly flown under the radar since canceling the last 21 dates of the 2016 tour in support of his Life of Pablo album following his hospitalization for a psychiatric evaluation. He deactivated his Twitter and Instagram feeds in May 2017.
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