Kanye West’s epic lead-up to The Life Of Pablo – if it’s still going by that name – has been as confusing as it’s been compelling.
The dude’s apparently in the red, muy grande.
I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt… Please pray we overcome… This is my true heart…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 14, 2016
Admittedly, we’ve never staged a fashion show at Madison Square Garden, and the mind boggles at how many crisp green bills he’d have laid out for that one. Then again, the pre-eminent cultural phenom of the past decade theoretically should be able to recoup those losses, especially as sweaters from his fashion line can go for upwards of US $2,500.
Perhaps he could even drop a new album. Not implying anything here, though. Not at all.
The intimate details of Kanye’s financials come after his Twitter output veered into Biblical allusions. According to him, the eponymous ‘Pablo’ is more commonly known as Paul:
Paul … The most powerful messenger of the first century… Now we stand here 20 centuries later… Because he was a traveler…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 14, 2016
He was a learned man not of the original sect so he was able to take the message to the rest of the world…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 14, 2016
He was saved from persecution due to his Roman citizenship… I have the right to speak my voice…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 14, 2016
All memes are wrong… The Life of Paul… The life of Pablo… Ultralight beams… Moms dads daughters sons stand up…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 14, 2016
A quick dip into the Bible itself reveals Paul had a bit to say about money, too. Acts 20:33 says:
“I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’?”
This is all all is fun all in good feelings… We will all be gone 100 years from now but what did we do to help while we were here!!!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 14, 2016
Source: Twitter.
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