Kanye West caught torrenting Sufjan Stevens music, $200 music software, Kayne’s New Album The Life of Pablo Streams on Pornhub In It’s Entirety
Upwards of 500,000 people torrented Kanye West’s latest album The Life of Pablo, and an entire folder of unreleased music leaked shortly after the album’s release. Kanye can’t be too upset however — after all, he himself has been caught torrenting.
Last night Kanye tweeted a screengrab of his Macbook with the caption, “Day 3”. Presumambly his intent was to document the progress of his next album, Turbo Grafx 16, and the possibility that he’ll be sampling Sufjan Stevens (which itself is fantastic news). However, it’s the other tabs open on his browser that caught the attention of many.
Day 3 pic.twitter.com/zPw0eFEFGF
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
As TorrentFreak notes, one such tab was a torrent link for synthesizer software calledSerum. The software retails for about $200, but when you’re broke…
Another tab was a Music Radar article about Serum. A third tab linked to “MediaDownloader”, a website that allows someone to rip music from YouTube. Putting two and two together, one would assume Kanye ripped Sufjan’s song “Death With Dignity”, which he then used to create a beat on the Serum software.
deadmau5, who co-founder Xfer Records, the company behind Serum, was quick to call out Kanye for his actions.
What the fuck @kanyewest … Can’t afford serum? Dick. pic.twitter.com/8B2aiyORZs
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016
In Kanye’s defense, any music released commercially would need to be cleared and thus, if he were to sample “Death With Dignity, Sufjan would be compensated. However, software creators aren’t entitled to the same rights.
Kanye West’s as-yet-unfinished seventh solo album The Life of Pablo is currently streaming on TIDAL, Pornhub, and nowhere else. Yes, as those fiends on Reddit have discovered, T.L.O.P. is available to stream in full on the world’s 66th most popular website.
It’s unlikely Kanye or anyone else in his camp had anything to do with this, but would you be surprised if they did? After all, this is the same guy who, to quote his own lyrics, “fell in love with a porn star.” Plus, there’s no better place to advertise to all demographics white and black, young and old, high school dropouts and college educated, then a porn site.
Watch porn and stream The Life of Pablo here.
