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Kanye West Asks Mark Zuckerberg for $1 Billion via Twitter, the Internet Goes Crazy

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‘I am your favourite artist’ … Kanye West on Saturday NIght Live on 13 February. Photograph: NBC/Getty Images

‘I am your favourite artist’ … Kanye West on Saturday NIght Live on 13 February. Photograph: NBC/Getty Images

Rapper Kanye West has been releasing stress via Twitter for the last few weeks. With his new album “The Life of Pablo,” formerly called “Waves” and at first called “Swish,” being released last week and his “Yezzy Season 3” fashion line launching, the man has a lot on his plate.

However, Kanye has been stranger than usual. Ill-advised Twitter beefs with his ex Amber Rose and her ex-husband Wiz Khalifa started this new state of Kanye’s Twitter persona that has taken the world by “storm.” Most recently the Chicago-based rapper has announced that he is $53 million in debt and needs Silicon Valley to donate $1 billion to him. His tweets started around midnight:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/698699904303132672

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/698926987281371136

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699108230371397632

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699108378891710464

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699108449561526272

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699108530205417472

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699108598635458560

But Twitter users found all of this to be comedic.

https://twitter.com/holds/status/699272838830809089

https://twitter.com/RespectTheAfro_/status/699260438635225088

https://twitter.com/mouqeet_/status/699260316077715457

https://twitter.com/michelleisawolf/status/699258838361497601

https://twitter.com/ILLCapitano94/status/699247273956474880

https://twitter.com/BriEldridge/status/699235953848639488

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