CONTROVERSIAL rapper Kanye West has been caught out browsing popular torrent website The Pirate Bay after posting a photo of his computer browser to Twitter.

West posted a photo to Twitter, showing that he was listening to Sufjan Stevens’ song Death with Dignity on YouTube.

Day 3 pic.twitter.com/zPw0eFEFGF — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) 2 March 2016

But it was the other browser tabs that caught the attention of his followers — one for popular torrenting website Pirate Bay, and a Media Downloader — which would be used to rip music and videos from websites, like YouTube.

The revelation comes just weeks after West was reportedly preparing to sue The Pirate Bay for allowing internet users to illegally download his latest album The Life Of Pablo, which was exclusively released on Tidal, a streaming service of which he is a “co-owner”.

Social media users quickly jumped at the opportunity to criticise West.

@kanyewest @austin_dias even Kanye has to pirate The Life Of Pablo — YEEZUS_LVDJ (@JasonL0101) March 2, 2016