You'd think he’d have learned from the backlash of his Tupac insult and tweeting about his ex's child...
|||BY PAUL EKSTEEN
After having being given the finger, so to speak, by Amber Rose, you’d think Kanye West would consider keeping his opinions to himself.
It has, after all, been a pretty rough start to the year for the self-proclaimed “greatest rapper of all time”.
First, in January this year, he ignited a wave of resentment from the very hip hop community he claims to reign over, when he allegedly said that the late, great, Tupac Shukar was “the most overrated rapper in history”.
Kanye denied saying this, but it is a testament to the precarious nature of his standing right now that more people were probably surprised that he said “in history” instead of his more favoured “of all time”.
Then he managed to embroil himself in a tawdry Twitter twar with rapper Wiz Khalifa, which earned him the now infamous rebuke for his ex-girlfriend. It is a slur from which he might likely never escape.
Perhaps this is why he feels some kind of kinship with under-fire comedian Bill Cosby, who at present has a number of fingers pointing at him.
Why else, as victim after victim, over 50 of them, accuse Cosby of heinous sexual assaults, would Kanye so misread the tide of popular opinion and tweet “BILL COSBY INNOCENT !!!!!” . On what evidence is he basing his judgement?
Naturally, the Twitter mob – they’re probably on a Kanye Alert these days – tore into the rapper.
“Kanye!! You can't be for real. FIFTY WOMEN. With nothing to gain thank to a statue of limitations ON RAPE. Oy,” responded comedienne Sarah Silverman.
Another tweet read:: “@kanyewest, imma let you finish, but you spelled guilty wrong. @BillCosby:”
One social media comment latched onto the star’’s need for self-promotion, particularly with a new album coming up: “There are easier ways to trend, Kanye.”
And then, inevitably, came the low blow – leftovers from the Amber Rose shambles: “did bill cosby stick his finger in kanye's butt”.
How it must grate Kanye that, despite his attempts to show us that he has moved on, his ex will forever be a pain in the a**.
He has now requested that his followers not tweet anything until Monday. Perhaps he should follow his own advice.
And the tweets keep rolling in:
Bill Cosby’s lawyer: “As a witness for the defense, I call… the guy who wrote Gold Digger.”
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) February 10, 2016
All that money. Not one mate who'll hide his phone charger. #kanye
— Grace Dent (@gracedent) February 9, 2016
#KimKardashian should of did this before #KanyeWest hit send on that Bill Cosby tweet. pic.twitter.com/DYgfuNHP23
— Beanz of SFPL (@PhotosByBeanz) February 9, 2016
I mean Bill Cosby could be innocent tho, the world could be flat, 2Pac could be alive, but I believe in Bigfoot so don't listen to me.
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) February 10, 2016
Are we sure Kanye isn't just a character from Zoolander?
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 10, 2016