Kanye West appeared to confirm overnight that he is hitting pause on his quest to become U.S. president.
“Ima focus on the music now,” the rap star tweeted.
An hour later, he shared an image of the track list of his new album, which evidently has a new title. “DONDA coming this Friday.”
Donda was the name of West’s mother, who died in 2007.
West had previously said his album was going to be titled God’s Country.
The music news came after West tweeted then deleted a series of bizarre messages that took aim at his wife Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner.
“Kriss (sic) don’t play with me you and that calmye are not allowed around my children,” he tweeted. “Y’all tried to lock me up.
“Everyone knows the movie get out is about me.”
On Sunday, West told a crowd in South Carolina – where he tried (unsuccessfully) to collect enough signatures to get on the state’s ballot – that he had urged Kardashian to have an abortion. “I almost killed my daughter,” he said. “Even if my wife were to divorce me after this speech, she brought North into the world, even when I didn't want to.”
In his Twitter rant, West claimed: “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.”
Referencing Kardashian’s 2007 sex tape and Playboy cover, West tweeted: “I put my life on the line for my children that North’s mother would never sell her sex rape (sic). I put my life on my God that North’s mom would never photograph her doing playboy and that’s on God. I’m at the ranch… come and get me.”
West added: "If I get locked up like Mandela Ya’ll will know why.”
The rap star also shared a screen shot of what was purportedly a text message to Jenner. “This Ye. You ready to talk now. Or are you still ignoring my calls.”
On Monday, TMZ reported that the Kardashians “believe Kanye is in desperate need of professional help and is in the middle of a serious, bipolar episode.”
Last week, New York magazine’s Ben Jacobs reported that West scrapped his plan to run only days after his July 4th announcement that he was running to replace Donald Trump. But, someone named Andre Bodiford filed a Statement of Organization with the U.S. Federal Election Commission last Wednesday using the address of West’s Wyoming ranch. According to the FEC, the filing does not mean West is a candidate.
So far he is only on the ballot in Oklahoma, which requires nothing more than payment of a $35,000 U.S. fee.
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