Kanye West Channels Steve Jobs In His Latest Twitter Rant About The Cost Of Education

Kanye West is on a roll with his Twitter rants. It seems like every time we refresh his feed, we stumble on some new series of tweets — no matter how incoherent they get at times — that either blasts someone or continues to praise himself.

The rapper recently made headlines for announcing he was $53 million in debt (although personally he is still rich), and publicly asking Mark Zuckerberg for help with funding to have enough resources to create new ideas. He said he also is "down" for help from Alphabet's CEO Larry Page in case Zuckerberg fails to respond.

Surprisingly, Kanye is actually making sense — not to mention a valid point — in his latest Twitter rant that has the rapper channeling his inner Steve Jobs.

Instead of focusing on his own greatness and troubles, Kanye used the social media platform on Tuesday to express his thoughts on the high cost of education.

He started by telling the public about a friend who must work two days to buy her son textbooks that cost around $400 each. However, it's important to note that if the friend really makes $370 a day, that would be equivalent to almost $90,000 a year. That appears to be a pretty healthy salary, yet we do not know what other bills or debt that family faces.

We also know the cost of higher education can be a seriously hefty bill, but we don't know if the son has any scholarships or financial aid to help defray the cost.

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group revealed in its February report on the cost of textbooks that, since 2006, the price tag of school books increased by 73 percent. The report found that approximately a third of students use financial aid to pay for the cost of textbooks. Fifty percent of students were reported to use the aid for books at community colleges and 28 percent at four-year public schools. Then again, there's always the fact that many students purchase their textbooks used on Amazon or from other online retailers to help them save money. Even without paying full price for textbooks, the cost of higher education continues to increase. And after graduating with a large amount of debt before even starting a steady, well-paying job, Kanye makes a really good point in this rant. Go on and preach, Ye.

Ultimately, Kanye's main point is that the cost of textbooks has to decrease so that families can actually afford education, something Steve Jobs stood behind. Jobs was said to want to partner with publishers to offer textbooks on iPads for free.

Besides siding with Jobs on the point that the cost of textbooks is too high, Kanye also said that he believes teachers should get paid more and he used the hashtag 2020, which signifies the 2020 presidential elections he previously announced he would be running for.

While Yeezus believes he is a god, the greatest artist and can even become president one day, it's not the first time he has used Steve Jobs as inspiration.

Back when he was building up his fashion empire and about to debut his Adidas collection in 2015, the rapper said in an interview that he would "like to be the Steve Jobs of Gap."

And this is just one of many Steve Jobs comparisons, including the time when he told the New York Times that he is the "Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture," and when he went on a Twitter rant about his ideas for a design company called Donda named after his late mother. In the rant, he said Donda will "pick up where Steve Jobs left off."

Even though he is a Jobs fan, he isn't exactly showing love for Apple as of late. In a tweet on Monday, the rapper said that Life of Pablo, his latest album will never - emphasis on never - be available on the company's streaming service.

"My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale ...You can only get it on Tidal," he said.

When it comes to Yezzy's Twitter account, you just got to sit back, shut up and "enjoy the greatness."

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