Kanye West took a break from his presidential campaign to make some declarations about his music career Monday, saying that he will refuse to release any new music until his record company, Univers…
must apologize to him — although whether this was a further condition for releasing new music was unclear — and asking for a meeting with Jay-Z.
The initial tweetstorm invoked Jay-Z’s given name, with an apology for misspelling it: “I’m waiting to meet with Sean Carter also.” He quickly added, “My bad I meant Shawn … no disrespect to my big bro.” “I’m sure Steve Stoute was hurt that he didn’t do the McDonald’s deal … Steve’s a good man Trav is a good man … my brothers let’s rise up … we don’t even own these companies.”
Eventually, he wrote: “I need to see everybody’s contracts at Universal and Sony … I’m not gonna watch my people be enslaved … I’m putting my life on the line for my people … The music industry and the NBA are modern day slave ships I’m the new Moses.”
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