The wait is over for Kanye’s “The Life of Pablo.”
The hip-hop artist leaped from the stage with a flurry of
unintelligible words after a “Saturday Night Live” performance,
revealing that fans could finally hear his seventh studio album on Tidal.
Those fans, hoping to hear what Kanye once described as "one of the
greatest albums of all time," were briefly met with disappointment due
to technical difficulties.
The album wouldn’t load on Tidal until nearly 2 a.m. and there was no sign of T.L.O.P. on KanyeWest.com
at that time, either. Instead, Yasiin Bey — the artist formerly known
as Mos Def — greeted fans with the same audio message that’s been
looping on Kanye’s homepage since late January.
“Kanyewest.com just crashed,” Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian, wrote on
Twitter before deleting the 1:28 a.m. post. “They are fixing it and the
album will be available in the next 10 (minutes).”
Kanye is the next big name since Beyonce to use Jay-Z’s
subscription-based streaming service as a launching point for his new
music.
For the past year, Kanye has toyed with listeners by sporadically
releasing songs from the new album, switching up the album’s tracklist
and its fluid title. The week before Sunday’s release, he settled on
“The Life of Pablo” in lieu of “Swish” and “Waves.”
He also fielded a $10 million offer to release his new album
exclusively to Martin Shrekli, the online troll known as “Pharma bro."
It’s unclear if Kanye ever responded to Shkreli’s tweet or took his
offer seriously.
The rapper also surprised fans on Saturday evening when he tweeted he is $53 million in debt.
"I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in
personal debt," he wrote. "Please pray we overcome... This is my true
heart."
Shkreli already owns Wu-Tang Clan's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin."
Sunday’s release follows Kanye’s sixth appearance as an SNL musical
guest, where he dropped at least one f-bomb and multiple utterances of
the n-word during “Highlights.”
Dressed head-to-toe in acid-washed garb, he returned to the stage
alongside El DeBarge, Young Thug, Kelly Price and A$AP Bari for “Ultra
Light Beams.”
He also humored SNL cast member Kyle Mooney to pseudo free-style rap battle, using lyrics from T.L.O.P. track “I love Kanye.”
“I love you like Kanye loves Kanye,” he told Mooney, effectively reaching peak Kanye.
Kanye joined the SNL cast on stage for curtain call wearing a custom
shirt of Kim K's late father, Robert Kardashian, and the rapper's late
mother, Donda.
Ultra Light Beams 💫 #SNL pic.twitter.com/BjSRstmPOH— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) February 14, 2016
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