Monday, February 15, 2016

The Life of Kanye


      Kanye West has had a lot of controversy as of late and it is causing him to gain a lot of attention from the media. Kanye feels any attention, good or bad, is good for him as long as it keeps him in the spotlight. When you marry into the Kardashian family and especially to Kim, you’re asking for 24/7 around the clock media attention. If he could just keep his mouth shut, then he wouldn’t give people a reason to hate him so much. Also, Kanye thinks he is better than everybody else, heck he thought he created Taylor Swift and that got him in hot water.

Twitter seems to be the outlet of choice for Kanye to have his massive tirades. He is always getting into fights with other celebrities and then tries to deny it. Also, he will come out on Twitter and be brutally honest. He talked about his debt on a tweet from February 13th, I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt... Please pray we overcome... This is my true heart...” If you are in a huge hole financially then you shouldn’t be causing fights with people and turning people off. That could affect sales of your music or whatever else you are selling.

What makes me laugh is that out of nowhere Kanye will claim that he is the “greatest artist of all time”. If that was the case, then the music industry would be in A LOT OF TROUBLE!!!! I think what he meant to say is that, I’m the best celebrity complainer of all time and I will do anything to get myself in the headlines. He tried to get noticed again by asking Mark Zuckerberg for a favor. Kanye from his twitter account tweeted a two-part request. Part one was, “Mark Zuckerberg invest 1 billion dollars into Kanye West ideas.” I can think of better ways to invest one billion dollars then to give it to Kanye. Who says he won’t end up being in more debt. Part two of the tweet was, “after realizing he is the greatest living artist of all time”. First of all, why are you talking about yourself in the third person? Second if you were the greatest artist of all time you wouldn’t be 53 million dollars in the hole.         

One action I can give him credit for is being persistent (sarcasm). When Kanye is desperate he loses his mind and doesn’t realize what he is doing. He continues to tweet because it gets him attention. If we just ignored what he was saying, then maybe he wouldn’t do it anymore (day-dreaming). Kanye goes on to tweet, “World, please tweet, FaceTime, Facebook, Instagram, whatever you got to do to get Mark to support me…” HELLO!!!! KAYNE, NO ONE WANTS TO HELP YOU!!! Take the hint…he isn’t going to respond because he doesn’t want to risk his reputation trying to pull you out of the hole you created. I won’t bore you with the rest of the tweets because they are just additional pleas for help.

In the long run Kanye is not making many friends or fans so all he has is the Kardashian clan. He released his new album on Saturday called, “The Life of Pablo” after it was delayed for a while and did songs from it on Saturday Night Live. He announced it would be on his website… but like typical Kanye he reversed that action and took it off his site. Only HE would release a new album and then right away take it down because of music streaming issues. Of course his thought process was let me go to streaming service Tidal because my friend Jay-Z owns it. What he didn’t think through is that Tidal charges way too much to have a subscription at $19.99 a month, compared to Spotify and Apple Music at $9.99 a month. Kanye will always be himself and no one can change him, which means he will always be in the headlines for the wrong reason and that will always get him attention.

I give credit to CNBC reporter Arjun Kharpal for exposing a celebrity like Kanye West because he is putting his reputation on the line. He could get a lot of positive feedback, or he could get bashed by fans and also destroyed by Kanye. Oh well…  hopefully celebrities can learn how to handle themselves better in the spotlight because they are only hurting themselves.

Here is the link to the story if you would like to see more of it: 


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kanye-taps-bruh-mark-zuckerberg-102651294.html

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