He’s “this generation’s Disney,” and technology leaders like Mark Zuckerberg would be doing the world a favor by investing a cool $1 billion in his musical ambitions.

That was the gist of an early Monday tweetstorm on the verified Twitter account of rapper Kanye West. It came hours after he raised questions about his personal finances with this tweet that hinted he has $53 million worth of debt:

In a fresh crop of posts, the @KanyeWest account issued direct pleas to Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook Inc. FB, +0.09% , and Larry Page, Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -1.28% CEO and the co-founder of Google, asking that they funnel some cash into his ideas:

West insinuated that Silicon Valley was full of hypocrites — executives who want to look cool listening to rap, yet never do anything to further growth in the music industry:

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The rapper made what seemed to be a thinly veiled reference to Zuckerberg’s educational philanthropy — he is part of an investment group that aims to bring cheap, private education to millions of children across Africa and Asia. Frankly, said West, the money could be better spent helping him — as the “Jordan and Steph Curry of music, meaning I’m the best of 2 generations” — with coming creative efforts:

Even as the account pushed the plea for money, West fans pleaded with the rapper to release his new “The Life of Pablo” album on iTunes and Spotify. The album is so far only available on Tidal, the subscription music service launched by rapper Jay Z earlier last year. West reportedly was given a small stake in Tidal, along with Madonna and other artists.

Tidal charges $20 a month for a high-fidelity version — described on Tidal as songs that haven’t been compressed — and $10 month for standard quality on downloads. The service’s subscription base has risen to 1 million, according to a tweet from Jay Z last year, but is still some ways from Apple Inc.’s AAPL, -1.75% Apple Music, which launched last summer and is believed to have more than 10 million subscribers.

As for West’s $53 million debt tweet, the Twitter account professed no regrets about owing money:

The musical artist, who also runs the fashion label Yeezy, is estimated to be worth $100 million, while his wife, Kim Kardashian, is said to be worth $85 million. The rapper has designed a line of Yeezy low- and high-top sneakers for Adidas ADS, +0.64% , which sell for prices in the hundreds of dollars:

If he is indeed struggling with all that liability, West would probably be happy to know the company he keeps among music’s legendary figures. No less than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to name just one, left a mountain of debt when he died at 35.

Other more contemporary artists to have fallen on financial hard times include Marvin Gaye and pop-rap singer MC Hammer, who was in the audience at West’s fashion show and album listening party last week at Madison Square Garden. Then there’s Rapper 50 Cent, who filed for bankruptcy in July and claims he’s $28 million in debt — even as he posted photos of wads of $100 bills in his refrigerator on Instagram.