Kanye West joins Instagram, gains half a million followers in few hours

Kanye West has finally joined the photo-sharing app 'Instagram'. The 39-year-old rapper set up an account over the weekend and shared just one picture and in few hours he amazingly gained
671,000 followers.

A photo posted by Kanye West (@kanyewest) on Sep 18, 2016 at 8:23am PDT

In March Kanye revealed in a series of tweets that he was considering joining Instagram.

He wrote: "My tweets are a form of contemporary art only compromised by people trying to tell me what to tweet and not to tweet...

"on another note... I was thinking about getting an Instagram but only on one condition....

"no one can ask me or try to tell me what to Instagram... It's my art... (sic)."

It's unclear how he will be posting his pictures though as Kanye recently admitted he had gotten rid of his phone as it hinders his creativity.

He tweeted: "I got rid of my phone so I can have air to create."

Meanwhile Kanye still has a long way to go before he reaches his wife Kim Kardashian West, with over 82 million fans.

Kim, 35, often posts selfies on the app and has many to choose from as she recently took 6,000 selfies on a holiday in Mexico.