Kanye West’s seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, can only be described as “very Kanye.”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Kanye West preceded the release of this album with some borderline crazy Twitter rants, which stirred up a lot of controversy. West changed the name of his album three times, beginning with So Help Me God, which then transitioned to Swish, then Waves and, finally, TLOP, which was later revealed to be The Life of Pablo.
West finally premiered the initial release two weeks ago at Madison Square Garden during the fashion show for his Yeezy Season 3 collection. Martin Shkreli, owner of the $2 million Wu-Tang album (and, let’s face it, a generally awful human), offered Kanye $10 million for rights to the album, which delayed the release even longer. For days, fans waited for the album to be released in full only to find out that West planned to only drop it on Tidal, a $20-a-month streaming service owned by the likes of West, Jay-Z, Beyonce and more music industry elites. This inspired 500,000+ illegal downloads in just two days, and West’s legal team is now considering suing PirateBay for this.
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