Kanye West doesn’t need to publish a book on his philosophy — he’s got Twitter for that.
The Grammy-winning Famous rapper let loose a series of fortune cookie-like tweets on Wednesday that he says are a “book.”
“This is my book that I’m writing in real time. No publisher or publicist will tell me what to put where or how many pages to write. This is not a financial opportunity this is an innate need to be expressive,” he wrote after publishing more than a dozen broad tweets. Another dozen or so came after that.
“I will work on this ‘book’ when I feel it. When We sit still in the mornings We get hit with so many ideas and so many things We want to express,” he added, self-editing along the way. “When I read this tweet to myself I didn’t like how much I used the word I so I changed the I’s to We’s.”
The various musings — echoing previous stream of consciousness-style rants from the Yeezy designer — stretched to the 280-character count and touched on meditation, self-validation, trends, fear, transparency, parenting and the linearity of time — you know, the basics.
One implored readers to “stop lying” but used slightly more colourful language, and several tweets included egregious grammatical errors that would irk anyone with a simple mastery of the English language (i.e. “There’s love stories. Pain happiness. It’s 3 dementional “ and “If you move out of fear than your on your own”).
Amid asides promoting his sneaker line, the 40-year-old Chicago native doled out some advice: He talked about being “a creative” and implored like-minded creatives “to avoid any contractual situations where you are held back from your ideas.”
“You have to protect your ability to create at all cost,” he wrote, then segued into a tweet stating that “distraction is the enemy of vision” and another that said “sometimes you have to get rid of everything.” (Wife Kim Kardashian West wasn’t nuts about that one, mind you.)
Nevertheless, West’s one-sided discussion moved on to fear, love, manipulation and transparency.
“[B]e transparent as possible. Stop setting plays. Stop playing chess with life. Make decisions based on love not fear,” he wrote.
After a terse tweet about trends, he was off on a tangent about being still in the morning.
“[W]hen you first wake up don’t hop right on the phone or the internet or even speak to anyone for even up to an hour if possible. Just be still and enjoy your own imagination. It’s better than any movie,” he wrote, adding, “Don’t follow crowds. Follow the innate feelings inside of you. Do what you feel not what you think. Thoughts have been placed in our heads to make everyone assimilate. Follow what you feel.”
And he goes on and on from there.
