Pertaining to his brash, outspoken and outrageous persona, Kanye West has found himself at the centre of a string of controversies in the past few months, having come to online blows with ex Amber Rose and fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa, as well as renaming his newest album four times prior to its release on February 14th – beginning with So Help Me God, then SWISH, followed by Waves and finally deciding on The Life Of Pablo, thought to be an ostentatious tribute to late cubist artist Pablo Picasso.
Now Kanye has denounced the traditional hard copy format used for distributing music in a succession of disparaging tweets, telling his 19.9 million followers:
I was thinking about not making CDs ever again… Only streaming
Kanye also referred to 2013 album Yeezus, indicating his disdain for the method in which it was produced. See the tweets below:
I was thinking about not making CDs ever again… Only streaming
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
the Yeezus album packaging was an open casket to CDs r.i.p
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
uuuuuuum, so there it is… No more CDs from me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
Currently The Life of Pablo is only available via Kanye’s co-owned streaming service Tidal, and it looks set to stay that way if this tweet from Kanye in February is anything to go by –
My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale… You can only get it on Tidal.
Upon the album’s release, Kanye took to Twitter to implore fans to subscribe to Tidal in order to hear his new album, despite previously having promised it would be available for download on his website KanyeWest.com – though in lieu of this he did embed a Tidal stream onto the main page of his website.
Following the announcement that he would not be producing any more CDs, Kanye finished his chain of tweets in idiosyncratic fashion:
question… Why do people not want me to be me?
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 7, 2016
