Kanye West is back on Twitter and he’s getting political, dispensing thoughts and musings on Black Lives Matter, freedom of thought and capitalism, and sparking some controversial reactions.
The rapper had taken a one-year hiatus from Twitter for unknown reasons, but it looks like he now has lots to say. Here are the most interesting snippets of Kanye’s thoughts.
This tweet immediately stirred controversy. Candace Owens is a black activist known for her opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement. She is the communications director for the Trump administration-linked Turning Point USA and specializes in “urban engagement,” delivering right-wing messages to college campuses across America.
West followed up his tweet about Owens with what appear to be a series of thoughts on how black Americans see themselves as “victims”. In one Tweet, he called “self-victimization” a “desease” and in another lamented that, while slavery no longer exists in America, slavery is still a“mentality” for some people.
Seemingly in response to a backlash to his support of Owens, West went on another rant about how the “thought police” are trying to suppress him for his beliefs. “We have freedom of speech but not freedom of thought,” he wrote in another tweet.
West has also offered up some life advice about following your feelings and not the “thoughts that have been placed in our heads” by other people. “Don't follow crowds. Follow the innate feelings inside of you. Do what you feel not what you think,” the rapper wrote.
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.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 18, 2018
In a series of tweets about how some people have the ability to “shift consciousness” while others don’t, West vented his frustration with “hard-core capitalists” who are “creating the illusion that the value of money is worth more than the value of time and friends.”
Presumably, the advice about not following crowds and hard-core capitalism being bad will be suspended when West releases his new “Yeezy” shoes, or drops a new album.
In what could easily become the lyrics of a new song, West tweeted about how he values truth and is not afraid of controversy. “Truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I'll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth,” he wrote.
You can almost hear him rapping it.
truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I'll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
In a tweet about how much he loves his new Tesla car, West thanked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. “I heard these are really good for the environment,” he mused in another tweet, presumably about the Tesla
West has also dipped into religion in his latest tweets, criticizing the idea that people should be “God fearing” and calling this a “dated mentality”.
That kind of mentality is “used to control people,” he wrote. “We are in the future. If God is love and love it's [sic] the opposite of fear then... to fear God makes no sense.”
I don't subscribe the term and concept of God fearing. That's a dated mentality that was used to control people. We are in the future. If God is love and love it's the opposite of fear then...