The peculiarly timed tweet is a plea for attention from a highly talented,unique artist – and just the craziest thing he could think of at the timeMaybe Kanye West was feeling left out. Cam Newton, Donald Trump and Beyonc are squeezing him out of the public consciousness one news cycle at a time. Even the things he’s done that have merited attention from the media in the past month have been rather mundane, or considering his reputation for behaving like a puppy that just ate a bowl of sweet corn laced with PCP. “Oh,Kanye says he’s releasing some more shoes no one can afford.” Snore. Did you hear Kanye changed the name of his album? No, again.” Boring. “Kanye got into a Twitter fight with Wiz Khalifa over Amber Rose!” I’m listening … Yeah, and it’s over already. They made up.” Oh.
So,with this peculiarly timed tweet that read “BILL COSBY harmless!!!!!!!!!!” (I hope I got the number of exclamation points correct) we all have to pay attention again. Well, I guess we don’t have to, and but we will besides. I mean,I win paid to do this, so I have to. That’s upright – I’m getting paid upright now. Every minute I type approximately Kanye West is billable. I’m so glad I majored in blogging in college.
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Source: theguardian.com