A seemingly playful Twitter rant from Kanye West on Sunday that vaguely suggested that he wanted $1 billion from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg turned out to be the truth.
A seemingly playful Twitter rant from Kanye West on Sunday that vaguely suggested that he wanted $1 billion from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg turned out to be the truth.
Hours after posting that to Mark, proposing the billion-dollar investment, Kanye added Google co-founder Larry Page to the mix in a series of tweets directed at Silicon Valley in general.
“Hey Larry Page, I’m down for your help too,” writes Kanye. “All you dudes in San Fran play rap music in your homes but never help the real artists you’d rather open up one school in Africa like you really helped the country if you want to help help me I promise I’m going to make the world dope all I do is make shit dope #facts All you guys had meetings with me and no one lifted a finger to help.” (sic)
What began as a swaggering, random suggestion has now turned into a very real, urgent appeal. It may be time to take the artist’s debt talk seriously. The House of West may indeed be in peril.
