He tweeted: "I got rid of my phone so I can have air to create."
Kanye amassed 671,000 followers in the hours after he joined Instagram but he 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.
The television personality was never without her phone during her four-day holiday in the resort of Punta Mita last month, and she has revealed that she used the device to take a staggering 1,500 snaps of herself every day.
The mum-of-two - whose daughter North, three, and nine-month-old son Saint joined her on her trip - made the announcement of her excessive picture taking on her half-sister Kendall Jenner's app KendallJ.com in a post called: "Kim-Digits: The Breakdown of My Mexico Vacation".
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star also revealed that she wore nine different bikinis on her holiday, but didn't spend much time in the sun as she was "busy doing photo shoots" or it was "overcast".
She did, however, reveal that she managed to spend four hours on the beach with her two children and drank 10 watermelon smoothies with her daughter.
