Kanye West fans are desperately pleading for 21-time Grammy award-winning rapper's next musical masterpiece. So much so, they are demanding help from the leader of the free world, President Obama.
A petition, which launched on Aug. 13, asked for POTUS' help in coercing the Chicago emcee to release his seventh studio album, "SWISH," on command. Way to tap into those executive branch powers!
According to TIME, the petition read: "Kanye West has kept us thirsty for too long. We haven't gotten any new singles in months. The President should order Ye to drop the album on the date August, 21st [sic] as his producer Mike Dean has been teasing people about."
The petition has since been taken down from the White House's "We The People" petition database -- is it rejected already? The landing page cites it was removed, due to violation of the Terms of Participation under the Moderation Policy.
Consequence of Sound reported the petition surpassed the necessary requirement of 100,000 signatures to get the ball rolling and illicit a formal White House response.
Earlier this week, Producer Mike Dean touched on working with West and his highly anticipated effort during an interview wtih Montreality.
The hitmaker has worked with the "All Day" rapper on numerous singles and basically every record since "Late Registration." Fans must have been dismayed when they learned Kanye is being Kanye, thus the LP is "just in progress. Whenever Kanye says it's done, it's done."
Bummer! Sounds like Obama cannot do anything about it anyways.
Fans have been through a roller coaster of emotions, as there have been many moments Yeezy nation seemed one step closer to a completed project. Numerous claims have also been reported, marking the dawn of Yeezy season -- only to let fans down.
In May, West announced his album would be named "SWISH," and his protégé, Theophilus London, then dropped an Internet bomb on the masses, tweeting he had heard the long-awaited record.
"Ye played the album in Toronto on repeat its HI Key over for everybody. Everybody," he wrote.
However, no release date followed, and fans have obviously downward-spiraled into a pit of desperation.
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