Dear Kanye West:

I was heartbroken when I read that you had tweeted out your fiscal misfortunes of being $52 million in debt, and saddened when I saw you had to resort to asking Mark Zuckerberg for some cash to help out.

Since you’ve done so much to add to the artistic experience of your brothers and sisters in the industry, and have always been there to support them, I’m sure someone will step for you soon. After all, such a selfless guy, who’s all about his peers, has surely invested enough karma currency, that your fellow artists (like maybe Taylor Swift?) will surely be rushing to aid you in your time of need.

As a low level singer songwriter from TX, who really isn’t even involved in the business on a regional level anynore, I doubt there’s much I could do to help, or else you know that I would. I don’t have much money, but 35 years of doing this may have given me something I could offer, that could ease your situation.

You know, like advice, in lieu of actual dollars, since the masses of the music listeners in America have been told what to listen to for years (a more homogenized and genre busting type pop sound to have a wider appeal) to the point where my work never generated enough commercial appeal to have any real money to send your way.

Sorry.

So here’s my advice. See if maybe you could stop being a Fucking Raging Asshole in public, who seems to give Zero Shits about anyone but himself, since that makes your already extremely tired «music» even less palatable to those who might be in a position to help you, and try rebranding yourself as a decent Fucking human being, rather than an egotistical, narcissistic attention whore slash music hack.

You know, just kinda see if that works out for you. Not sure but that feels like good advice.

Hope this was helpful, brother

Sincerely, your pal

Mark Allan Atwood