USA TODAY US Edition

Kanye West is still moaning on Twitter about his money woes Maria Puente

-

Taylor Swift just rebuked him big-time at the Grammys, but Kanye West was still mostly moaning about his money problems on Twitter Tuesday.

He’s still $53 million in debt, and he wanted the world to know his “struggle.” He huffed about people who knew and used it against him in negotiatio­ns. Imagine. He begged a fashion house or Adidas to bail him out.

He declared himself a dreamer and an artist — the “definition of art” — and a truth-teller.

West, 38, was all over the place, as usual, but he did not respond, even indirectly, to the elegant diss delivered by Swift when she accepted her Grammy Monday for Album of the Year for 1989.

Swift, 26, won a few days after a Twitter storm blew up over West’s new single, Famous, which contained a lyric in which he mused about having sex with Swift and referred to her by an all-too-common female putdown that rhymes with “witch.”

He tried to claim it was an endearment; she didn’t buy it. West has a history of stomping on Swift (metaphoric­ally, of course) when she’s accepting awards.

Swift didn’t mention him at the Grammys, but everyone knew whom she was talking about.

On Monday, West had taken to tweeting to tech billionair­es Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page, begging them to invest “$1 billion” in his ideas. By Tuesday, he turned to fashion houses.

So far, no one has stepped forward. At least not publicly. West, who has a demonstrat­ed sky-high opinion of himself and rarely apologizes, was undeterred.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States