LOL: Kanye’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ Had 500K+ Illegal Downloads In 24 Hrs

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February 17, 2016

According to TorrentFreak‘s estimates, the new Kanye West album ‘The Life of Pablo’ had over 500,000 torrented downloads in the first 24 hours of it being ‘released’. Which is enough to certify it as gold, had those downloads been legal.

Now, this is probably no surprise to anyone, especially people who follow Kanye on Twitter. The responses to his tweets begging followers and fans to sign up to streaming service Tidal (the only place you can currently listen to the album) have not been suuuuuuuper pleasant.

No. RT @kanyewest Please to all my friends fans and music lovers. Sign up to Tidal now. pic.twitter.com/fBlwLIG4ch

— Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie) February 16, 2016

@kanyewest Not even if @2pac himself returned from his remote island and released a Tidal exclusive project

— Zach Williamson (@Zilliamson) February 16, 2016

“Please to all my friends fans and music lovers. Sign up to Tidal now.”– @kanyewest

Me: pic.twitter.com/sJFPzzuUp4

— Cass Anderson (@casspa) February 15, 2016

@kanyewest pic.twitter.com/6S6SKvFsAK

— Phil McCrevis (@kickbackattack) February 15, 2016

RT @kanyewest Please to all my friends fans and music lovers. Sign up to Tidal now. pic.twitter.com/cIy5hhFBWv

— Killah (@Coled_Marley) February 16, 2016

Kanye also tweeted yesterday that he would never be releasing the album for sale. Like, ever. Not even on iTunes. And the responses to that tweet were a shitstorm and a half, to put it lightly. Savage AF:

@kanyewest HOW THE FUCK YOU SAY YOU WANNA SPREAD ART AND THEN NOT SPREAD ART

— Chad (@chadultra) February 15, 2016

@kanyewest I miss the quiet Kanye
I miss the never tweeting Kanye

— * (@sorryputas) February 15, 2016

.@kanyewest pic.twitter.com/zNLtBk9Kcm

— siena mirabella (@sienaxmirabella) February 15, 2016

.@kanyewest “You can only get it on Tidal.” pic.twitter.com/c7mv3xi3Bq

— not Jony Ive (@JonyIveParody) February 15, 2016

yo @kanyewest you dropped one. pic.twitter.com/eiIBJlMYFV

— ? (@OAKWLF) February 16, 2016

Regardless, shoutout to this super polite Ye fan:

@kanyewest ima have to illegally download it then, sorry man.

— Helena (@Helenana_) February 15, 2016

So that explains Torrent Freak numbers. Every second tweet to Kanye right now is a screenshot of someone torrenting TLOP.

It’s understandable in this situation though: Ye‘s thought process just doesn’t make sense. You’re allegedly $53 million in debt, and millions of fans are literally trying to give you their cash. Yet… refusing to sell copies of your album somehow makes sense to you? Bizarre.

But, Yeezy will do whatever Yeezy wants to do. It’s his world, we just live in it.