Eight Highlights From Kanye West’s Epic Twitter Outburst

If you don't follow the rapper and prolific tweeter, here's what you missed Wednesday night.

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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.

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West announced he’s creating a design company, named Donda after his late mother.

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He 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.

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NewsFeed thinks this tweet sums up the entire diatribe best:

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