Rapper Kanye West recently announced that his new album, “Donda 2,” would be released exclusively on his $200 streaming devices, which allows users to remix songs as they listen. Slipknot’s Corey Taylor isn’t having it. “It’s like releasing all the parts for a car and sending them to people’s houses and going there, you got a free car, now you’ve got to figure out how to build the g*ddamn thing,” Taylor said. “You’re assuming that the audience has the access and same technology that you have but you’re a f*cking moron for doing that. Are you serious? It doesn’t work that way. The thinking that that’s a smart thing to do just shows you how convoluted and off the f*cking property Kanye West really is. When you’ve got that much money and that much people around you telling you exactly what you want to hear, your concept of reality just goes right out the f*cking window.”
Taylor also commented on the steep price of “Donda 2.” “People can’t afford their f*cking apartments for f*ck’s sake. It’s not right. It’s just so pompous and ridiculous. If we did that, we would be f*cking demonized but I guarantee people are looking at him like he’s a genius, and it’s, like, for f*ck’s sake, pull your head out of your *ss, put it on CDs and just f*cking give it to people. If you want to do that, put it together in a way that people can actually listen to it. It’s such f*cking horsesh*t.”
It’s not the first time Taylor has weighed in on West’s actions. He blasted the rapper for claiming “to be the greatest living rockstar on the planet” in 2015. He also showed concern in 2020 when West announced he was running for president and later made numerous comments about his then-wife Kim Kardashian and her mom, Kris Jenner. “That’s not the normal behavior of someone who is … That seems like someone who’s having a mental break, to be honest. It sounds like someone who is borderline. I don’t wanna say it’s a borderline personality disorder, but it almost feels bipolar. When you exacerbate it with fame and money and all of these different things, people have a right to be concerned. He’s got a family; he’s got people who care about him and worry about him. It’s one thing to laugh about it from afar; it’s another thing to watch a breakdown happening in real time, especially with someone who is loved by so many people, and a lot of his actions are taken very seriously. So when he says some of that sh*t, people take him seriously. It’s like [then-President Donald] Trump — people take what he says very seriously, and that’s a danger. So we have to be very, very careful and watch what’s being said. I just hope that he gets the help that he needs, let’s put it that way.”
