Renowned rapper Kanye West launched a rant of epic proportions on Twitter. His 86 tweet dispatch covered a number of topics including his love of fashion to his quest to change the world. Perhaps the most ambitious tweet — from an artist not exactly known for modesty — expressed his desire to “pick up where Steve Jobs left off”.
We can collectively effect the world trough design.We need to pick up where steve jobs left off
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— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
Among West’s tweets were also rants on the American schooling system and seemingly arbitrary references to Occupy Wall Street, the London riots and Chicago, murders:
Help education.School systems were designed to turn people into factory workers.
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
Instead of kicking kids out of schools for using there iPhones… why not promote it? Allow kids to use search engines to do test…
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
The adrenaline is running… I don’t know if I can even get to sleep now… From Wall street to the London riots toChicago murders…
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
In addition to expressing his desire to take over the design legacy of the late Apple co-founder West equated the spirit of Jobs to Michael Jackson:
We need to take what Michael Jackson felt and Mcqueen and Steve Jobs and we need make things better…
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
A number of the tweets concerned the aspirations of West’s company Donda. Named after West’s late mother, the firm aims “to help simplify and esthetically[sic] improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel,” West tweeted.
West then boasted about his continual investment in creativity:
I invest every dime back into creativity… hiring amazing creatives paying for flights, offices … etc…
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
He also claimed to be assembling an incredibly diverse set of employees for the firm:
I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts…
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist …
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
West offered little explanation for the litany of tweets, saying only that he had “just wanted to share what’s been on my mind”.
The tweet rampage ended with a quote attributed to Irish poet George Bernard Shaw:
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. ….
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
…But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
— Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 5, 2012
