After weeks of only tweeting moderately, rapper Kanye West went on a Twitter rampage Wednesday night, sending out dozens of updates over the course of a few hours. He touched on topics like fashion, his early school days, education in general, design, forming a creative collective, Occupy Wall Street, the London riots, his mom, the broken jail system, his critics and the Grammy awards. To spare you from reading the entire thing, here are a few key tweets to know.
He spent most of his 140-character bursts discussing his love for fashion, and his past experiences working on clothing lines.
Early 2011 ... I moved to Paris and opened a small design studio... the language barrier was quite difficult...
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012I designed a sneaker called the YEEZY with Nike. I'm "allowed" to design 1 pair of sneakers every 2 years. I have more ideas...
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012I knew about my woman's clothing was what my Mom would wear. I guess some critics would joke that I still don't know anything LOL
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012My Mom would wear blue jeans with a fur and an embellished "Cosby Show" sweater : ) to pick me up from school
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012(LIST: Five Fashion Stories to Follow in 2012)
West announced he’s creating a design company, named Donda after his late mother.
DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas...
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012He also gave his take on overhauling the education system, saying he and director Spike Jonze want to open a summer school that experiments with a new curriculum.
Math classes should teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, accounting and money management aaaaaand cut!!! ....
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012Instead of kicking kids out of schools for using there iPhones... why not promote it? Allow kids to use search engines to do test...
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012NewsFeed thinks this tweet sums up the entire diatribe best:
This is just a train of thought .. but figure it's better to read than trained thoughts
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Kanye West (@kanyewest) January 05, 2012LIST: Occupy Bling Street: Celebrities Turn Wall Street Protest Into Media Circus
