'The struggle is real': Kanye West weighs in on America's textbook crisis

Kanye is on a crusade. https://t.co/fkObpudzjI

— Adam ? (@LitzenUp) February 16, 2016

Now that he’s gotten all that other business out of the way, Kanye West would like to take the opportunity to teach us a thing or two about education in this country:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699686551597486080

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699686595318960128

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Assuming this friend works five days a week, if she’s regularly spending all $1,850 — a week’s worth of pay — on books for her son, she might want to re-evaluate some things.

I wish I made $370 every day…? https://t.co/mjtCxT1LbA

— ? RPT (@tommy_aether) February 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/CRod1529/status/699688224470335488

regular folk wanna know how can we get down w/ that gig? RT @kanyewest: I have a friend who works really hard and makes $370 dollars a day..

— Ashley Schaeffer (@brothasteph) February 16, 2016

He says this like it's minimum wage ???? https://t.co/Bi9H2pv8xT

— Omer (@OmerLevy9) February 16, 2016

So sad. The struggle is real https://t.co/PkRaUqO82J

— Upper Moon One (@SeanSTX) February 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/richplow/status/699688236906635265

Most people would kill to make that. Yeezy needs to take his head out of his ass https://t.co/30emKMP8Iy

— Seedy Anagonye (@Taige42) February 16, 2016

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I gotta work 4 days to afford your shoes RT @kanyewest: I mean, his mom has to work 2 days just to afford 1 book for her son …

— solls? (@PayYannick) February 16, 2016

Brah, that's like 100k a year … https://t.co/d8JqvPJNiR

— Brian Pham (@breezy_point) February 16, 2016

You realize that means she makes close to $100K a year… #TheStruggleIsReal https://t.co/xMLd3aPpBH

— Bradley Gelber (@BradleyGelber) February 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/theWoodWDE/status/699691016706781185

That's $96k a year, your friend's gonna be alright. https://t.co/iu4uxYyOsk

— Aaron (@ADRC23) February 16, 2016

$96,200 on a standard 40 hour work week. Your "friend" is doing ok. https://t.co/s5vMV2dyz4

— ClintInTexas (@ClintFromOhio) February 16, 2016

One would think. But apparently Kanye knows better.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699686698070966272

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https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699686803251585024

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699687128956018690

Sure, Kanye. We’ll see you in 2020.

https://twitter.com/MIAUMUH/status/699690075928584197

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/699688238236233728

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Update:

Just putting this out there:

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/699699485715206144

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