Photo Credit: Ye TwitterKanye West posted a note to his Instagram telling fans to stop asking him to do NFTs.
On Monday, Ye posted a hand-written note to Instagram to address his fans. “Stop asking me to do NFTs; I’m not finna co-sign,” Kanye wrote in the comments. “For now, I’m not on that wave; I make music and products in the real world.”
The note that Kanye posted to his account says, “My focus is on building real products in the real world. Real food, real clothes, real shelter. Do not ask me to do a f*cking NFT,” signed Ye. In the postscript, the rapper leaves the request open as a future opportunity. “Ask me later,” he implores.
Several rappers have joined in on the NFT craze that has taken over the music industry. Snoop Dogg outed himself as the very influential NFT influencer, Cozomo di Medici. Eminem paid around $500,000 for a Bored Ape that moderately resembles him. Justin Bieber dropped around $1.3 million on his Bored Ape NFT.
Meanwhile, Ye says he is hard at work on DONDA 2, a follow-up to his album last year. That album is being executive produced by Future. Ye says he is giving up access to his phone until the album drops on February 22. “I don’t have a phone until 2.22.22,” the rapper says. “My focus is taking my kids to school and finishing the album.”
In speaking about the album, Nas says if it can’t be played at a funeral, childbirth, graduation, or a wedding, music won’t be on the record. “We learned a lot from DONDA 1 and we learned what hit. We learned what was sticking. So we took it from there. It has to be able to be played at four major moments in people’s lives,” Nas told Rolling Stone.
We’ll see if Ye manages to drop DONDA 2 on time. The massive album teaser parties last year felt as though it took some of the wind out of the sails of the actual album release.
