Martin Shkreli Targets Kanye West, Who Targets Taylor Swift

There’s a lot of celebrity bullshit to cover here, so let’s just get right to it, shall we?

Kanye West released his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” on Thursday during his Yeezy 3 Fashion Show at Madison Square Garden. It was screened live at movie theaters across the globe and streamed online on Jay Z’s Tidal music service. I’m sure it was lovely. There were models there and Adidas, and even Lamar Odom in his first public appearance since his hospitalization. Anyway, Kanye cranked up his album during the event, and that’s when things started to get weird.

In the track, “Famous,” Kanye dropped this gem of a line:

"I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous" — @kanyewest's "Famous" ft. @rihanna https://t.co/TW1xmQrlv6

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) February 11, 2016

“Taylor” is a reference to Taylor Swift, for anyone who may have forgotten the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Kanye first intervened with Swift by, well, famously intervening her acceptance speech. Swift’s brother apparently caught wind of the lyrics and tossed a pair of Yeezy sneakers in the trash, which he posted to Instagram. No official word on whether he was upset by the “might still have sex” part from Mr. Kardashian, or the taking credit for his sister’s 40-plus million albums sold.

Rest assured, the circus is only just getting started.

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Meanwhile, Pharmaceutical Douchebag Martin Shkreli (an official title, by the way), the societal stain who price-gouged an AIDS and cancer drug and recently manifested some “beef” with Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah, decided to try and extend his 15 minutes by seizing Kanye’s publicity wave. You may recall Shkreli recently paid $2 million to be the sole purchaser of a Wu album.

If not, this is him:

And this was his tweet:

https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/697891692242935813

That’s cute and all, but the funny part is Shkreli actually drafted and FedEx’d a legal offer… for $10 million. Not that Kanye doesn’t likely own a $10 million roll of toilet paper, but Pharmaceutical Douchebag actually, genuinely, thought his ploy would delay the release of “The Life of Pablo.”

https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/697897924353773573

Anyway, the album is out, and I’m going to go take a shower now. Oh yeah, and my official Kanye nickname, from the Kanye Nickname Generator, is Otis Muller.

Checkmate.