While details are scarce at best, Kanye simply tweeted, "New album coming this summer." Whether it will be a further polished version of The Life of Pablo, a second Watch the Throne record or the long-awaited G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Winter remains to be seen, though it might be best to take this claim with a grain of salt for now.
As for the Grammys talk, while the awards have been out of the news for a little over a week, West expressed his desire to meet with National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences president Neil Portnow to fix the award show. "I think the Grammys are super important!!!," he wrote. "I know so many cool artists whose hearts have been broken by the politics including mine. We need to fix this."
West went on to cite a number of artists who deserved awards this year, including Future, Young Thug and Dexter Navy, director of A$AP Rocky's visually stunning video for the rapper's "LSD."
"You guys are supposed to be all about taste," Kanye continued. "You like your black people a certain way also. You wouldn't have Future perform and that man owned the clubs last summer."
He closed the topic of the Grammys by urging Portnow to reach out and "make the Grammys culturally relevant again."
UPDATE (02/24, 4:00): Neil Portnow has responded to West through the Grammys Twitter account, accepting his invitation to sit down and discuss the awards.
.@kanyewest, I'm not on Twitter but just hit me up and let's have that sit down. – Neil Portnow
— The GRAMMYs (@TheGRAMMYs) February 24, 2016
Scroll through the highlights of West's Twitter spree below.
I would like to sit down with Neil Portnow right now
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
I think the Grammys are super important!!!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
I know so many cool artists whose hearts have been broken by the politics including mine.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
I feel the Grammy awarding system is way off and completely out of touch.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
Hi Grammys this is the most important living artist talking.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
If I'm not at the show next year then there is no show.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
I don't want to just fix the awards for me but I want to fix it for Dexter Navy who directed A$AP Rocky's LSD video.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
Everybody with any form of taste knows that was the best video of the year!
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
You guys are supposed to be all about taste.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
You like your black people a certain way also. You wouldn't have Future perform and that man owned the clubs last summer.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
All artists have a problem with it and I am going to fix it for us all starting right now.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
Neil please reach out as soon as possible so we can make the Grammys culturally relevant again.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
First order of business. We the people need to see Future at the Grammys.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
We need to see Young Thug at the Grammys. Not just me and Jay in a suit.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
I'm happy and free and proud and confident. I'm not crazy. I'm free
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
It's a beautiful time. I love my friends. I love my family. I love people. The human race.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
I'm not even gon lie to you. I love me so much right now.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
New album coming this summer
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
The world needs a guy like me. The world needs somebody to not be scared and tell his truth.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 24, 2016
