Kanye West has declared ‘slavery is choice’ and claims he is battling to own his masters.The rapper posted a string of tweets on Wednesday directed at his label, alleging they ‘won’t tell’ him how much it would cost to own the original recordings of his music because ‘they know I can afford to buy them’.Seemingly speaking for other rappers in the industry, he posted: ‘We’ve gotten comfortable with not having what we deserve … they allow us to have a little money from touring get some gold chains some alcohol some girls and fake numbers that feed our egos … but we don’t own our masters.‘We our supporting other people’s kids … we could spend our whole life in the music industry but our kids gotta go work for another company when they grow up.
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