Kanye West has joined Instagram.

The rappers official profile page appeared online today, September 18th, immediately gaining hundreds of thousands of followers.

Kanye’s first post is a screenshot of a scene from the 1990 film Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The photo has proved popular with fans, receiving 189k likes and over 28k comments (correct at time of publishing).

Earlier this year Kanye hinted that he was considering joining the mobile photo/video sharing social networking service.

Back in March, Kanye shared his thoughts with fans via a series of tweets:

Earlier this week Kanye revealed that he had gotten rid of his phone so that he can focus on “creating”.

“I got rid of my phone so I can have air to create” West tweeted to his 26 million followers.

Kanye is in the middle of his US Saint Pablo Tour, in support of his seventh studio album The Life Of Pablo, which features the singles Famous, Father Stretch My Hands and Fade.

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