The past 24 hours have turned out to be an emotional seesaw for Kanye West. Right before heading onto the the Saturday Night Live stage to perform a new single from his latest album The Life of Pablo—released early Sunday morning, after his seventh appearance on the show—Kanye proclaimed to his 18.7 million fans via Twitter that he is $53 million in “personal debt” without naming the cause of his alleged monetary woes.
“I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt,” Yeezus tweeted to his fans right before heading out to debut “Ultralight Beam,” his album opener.
“Please pray we overcome,” he added.
The tweet came after a mini-rant about the namesake behind his new his album The Life of Pablo, which the rapper dropped after his SNL performance, clarifying that the Pablo in question isn’t the one that Netflix fashioned a cocaine-fueled TV drama after (Escobar) or the one that really liked painting cubes and sad guys with guitars (Picasso), but after Paul the Apostle, calling him “the most powerful messenger of the first century.”
While Yee didn’t follow up with a reason for his debt, the culprit might be his ventures in fashion—he previously admitted that his Yeezy clothing line had scored him a $16 million loss, and as Consequence of Sound noted, his women’s clothing line put him $30 million back in 2014.