A day after his unusual debut political rally in South Carolina in which he appeared wearing a military style jacket with “2020” shaved into the back of his head, indulged in an hour-long train-of-thought session and at one stage, broke down in tears, Kanye is turning his attention to social media.
Late Monday, West appeared to be having a very public meltdown on Twitter. It appeared to kick off with a single post, without comment, of Michael Jackson’s music video to “Black or White.”
From that point forward, Kanye fired away. With family members among the targets, including Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner. “I put my life on my God that Norths mom would never photograph her doing playboy and that’s on God I’m at the ranch … come and get me,” he writes.
In another, “I love my wife My family must live next to me It’s not up to E or NBC anymore.”
Kanye tweeted “NBC locked up Bill Cosby”. As a result, the disgraced comedian’s name began trending on Twitter.
In another, Kanye referenced the Oscar-winning thriller Get Out when he claimed his wife Kim Kardashian had a doctor ready and en route to Wyoming to “lock me up.”
“Kim was trying to fly to Wyoming with a doctor to lock me up like on the movie Get Out because I cried about saving my daughters life yesterday,” he tweeted.
He continued, “Everybody knows the movie get out is about me.”
All tweets have since been deleted.
The “Pray for Ye” hashtag was trending late in the evening as fans and onlookers piled on with shock and concern for his health.
In the small hours, Kanye appeared to tire and changed tac. “Ima focus on the music now,” he wrote, at which stage most of his earlier tweets had been scrubbed.
And then, an announcement: “DONDA coming this Friday”.