{"id":15220,"date":"2016-03-07T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=15220"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:47:24","slug":"kanye-west-addresses-pirate-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=15220","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Addresses Pirate Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kanye_fakerolling_ohsodj\"<\/a>Last week, Ye made headlines when he posted a screenshot of what fans assumed was his computer. What viewers immediately honed in on was an internet tab of the popular – but illegal – streaming service Pirate Bay to download music software Serum. The most obvious conclusion was that he was using Pirate Bay to download Serum. <\/p>\n

However sources claim Ye was joking when he tweeted the screenshot. In a chat with the paparazzi, the rapper acknowledged the incident himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny because, you know, it\u2019s obviously not my computer,\u201d Kanye can be heard telling the paparazzi in the video below. \u201cI took a picture of it in the studio, and then everybody was like, \u2018Don\u2019t put that up.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Let it go up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, the irony that that was the site that downloaded a million of my albums\u2026\u201d Kanye continued after a long pause.<\/p>\n

In true Kanye form, he continued to use the opportunity speaking with the paparazzi to state his personal goals, as well: \u201cThis has been a year, 2016, that just really I can express the truth. I just want people to see me talking to you, people not calling me names, screaming out \u2026 and just know my heart and that I really want to help the world. I really want to do something to apply my skill set \u2026 I want to apply that to something more than something that\u2019s just gonna make me money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the guy that fully expresses himself and shows artists, look, we have a responsibility as artists to tell the truth. Our skill set is to be able to see the truth and say it, whether you say it with drawing, through the way you dance, through an album, the way you rap. That\u2019s why they say kids are like artists because they see the truth and they say the truth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He also thanked the paparazzi for giving him a direct outlet to speak out to, as well as wife Kim Kardashian and her family for supporting him, \u201cespecially in the past two, three weeks where people are really like, \u2018Oh, he must be going crazy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so funny because all people got was truth. Truth. Truth. Truth. Truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n