Kanye West has been making headlines because of his Twitter activity. Among his more high-profile Twitter stories are when he claimed he’s going to win 100 Grammys in his lifetime, whe he bashed Puma for signing his sister-in-law Kylie Jenner, when he begged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to invest in his ideas and when he beefed with Wiz Khalifa over the possible WAVES title for his album.
In a recent appearance on The Late Show with James Corden, Dr. Phil says that West’s antics are a reflection of society.
“Everybody thinks stuff sometimes,” the psychologist says. “You’ll think stuff and it’s like really stupid. But we’re in a society now, we’re in a generation now where everybody thinks you’ve got to have an audience for everything.”
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Dr. Phil uses the example of someone posting about brushing his teeth as information that does not need to be shared with the world, but has become acceptable in the social media age.
“We’re so narcissistic now, everybody’s like doing selfies of themselves brushing their teeth,” he says. “I don’t care. But everybody has it posted up. So now, everybody they just have to post everything, post everything, post everything like nobody cares. But now, you say something incredibly stupid it just goes wall to wall. They’re reading it in China in five seconds. So it just goes all over the place. You used to be stupid and get away with it.”
West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, reportedly “can’t stand” the rapper’s Twitter sprees.
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Bow Wow, who also was a guest on the show, does not think there are any problems with the Chicago rapper’s behavior.
“I think that he’s just an artist who’s very very passionate, like over passionate, about what he does,” Bow Wow says. “I mean he’s begging guys for billions of dollars to invest in him. He’s like, ‘I have the next ideas. I wanna be the next big thing.’ I think we’re dealing with an artist who’s very passionate who believes in what he does, but he just might go about it in a different way.”
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