Kanye West has been dissed from beyond the grave – by famed singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
The “Hallelujah” singer, who died nearly two years ago at age 82, wrote a poem in March 2015 in which he took issue with Yeezy’s declaration of being the famed Cubist painter from Spain.
“I am Picasso!” West declared during a 2013 concert, adding for good measure: “I am Michelangelo! I am Basquiat! I am Walt Disney! I am Steve Jobs!”
On Thursday, the same day the Grammy-winning rapper had a bizarre confab with President Trump, who praised him earlier as a “genius,” musician Amanda Shires tweeted the Canadian songsmith’s 21-line poem — which was published last week in a book about his writings titled “The Flame.”
“Kanye West is not Picasso/ I am Picasso,” the poem starts. “Kanye West is not Edison/ I am Edison.”
It continued: “I am the Kanye West of Kanye West/ The Kanye West/ of the great bogus shift of bull— culture.”
“I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is/ When he shoves your ass off the stage/ I am the real Kanye West,” it reads.
West also likened himself to Picasso during a 2015 speech at Oxford University, where he said, “My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater,” according to The Washington Post.
And in 2016, backstage at “Saturday Night Live,” he was recorded saying he was 50 percent more influential than Picasso, Stanley Kubrick and the apostle Paul – and would remain so for the next 1,000 years, CBS News reported.
West’s Grammy-nominated album from 2016 is also called “The Life of Pablo.”
Cohen did not appear to bear any ill will toward the fervent Trump supporter during a 2014 interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“A lot of, say Jay-Z or Kanye West — you don’t have to identify with every position they take, especially if you’re white. It’s not necessary to identify,” he said.”
“It’s the energy, it’s the resonance of truth, of person, of real experience. When we are exposed to someone’s real experience, it resonates and it invigorates.”
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