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Kanye West Wants 'White Publications' To Stop Commenting On Black Music

Yeezy isn't happy about the reviews of his new album "The Life of Pablo."

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Kanye West Wants 'White Publications' To Stop Commenting On Black Music
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Kanye, doing what he does best as of late, went on another Twitter rant recently, where he asked “white publications” not to comment on “black music” anymore. Let's think back to when the rapper started to act strange when he suddenly decided to change his album title from "SWISH" to "Waves". This ended up causing a Twitter feud between Wiz Khalifa and his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose. Some said “white publications” the rapper called out included Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Yeezy followed his statement saying, “I love love love white people, but you don't understand what it means to be the great grandson of ex-slaves and make it this far. The system is designed for colored people to fail and one of our only voices is music. One of our only ways out is music." All of this came about Feb. 15, nearly an hour before the Grammy’s aired.

Kanye also tweeted directly at Pitchfork and said, “Pitchfork, the album is 30 out of ten.” Ironically, the magazine gave the album, "The Life of Pablo," a rating of 9/10 which anyone knows is great as far as scores go. The entire rant seems to have stemmed from the less than desirable review, according to the rapper's standards. It seems Yeezy is upset with how publications are responding to his album, which is the best of all time as he recently proclaimed. The reviews came with both praise and opinion as reviews usually do. Pitchfork even awarded the album with the title of “Best New Music.”

None of the publications had anything terribly mean or bad to say about the album. The New York Times praised the album, commenting that Kanye “has perfected the art of aesthetic and intellectual bricolage, shape-shifting in real time and counting on listeners to keep up.” The publication continued, “He truly needs to be heard, he can corral a dream team of collaborators. He’s so fluent that he can use others to speak for him, and be understood clear as day.” Kanye, Imma let you finish, but chill out. A 9/10 rating from Pitchfork is actually one of the highest ratings there has been in a long time.

The rap artist seems to be having a sort of meltdown lately, recently making it publicly known that he is $53 million in debt, and even asked Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, to invest $1 billion in his ideas on the grounds that he is “the greatest living artist and the greatest artist of all time."

"Life of Pablo" is a legitimately good album, but the greatest? I'm no expert, but I don't think we can go so far and name it that. I think Kanye was right in saying, "My No. 1 enemy has been my ego." Kanye you're talented, we get it, but maybe you should let all of this finish.

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