The Real Kanye West
Not being a rap aficionado, I hadn’t heard much of Kanye Amari West before he drunkenly leapt onto the stage at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards and grabbed the microphone from Taylor Swift after she won the Best Female Video award. Seems West didn’t agree with that presentation so he made a fool of himself, and embarrassed his black friend, Beyonce, whom he thought deserved the award instead of Swift.
Okay, we’re all entitled to our opinions and were that the only time West had expressed his so forcefully it might be overlooked, not that anything he says or does has any effect on his career.
Not even being sued by Evel Knieval for trademark infringement and vulgarizing Knieval’s name in a video and not even his two arrests in California for vandalism, grand theft, and assault on paparazzi left any career scars.
Nor did West’s deviaton from script at a 2005 Hurricane Katrina benefit concert when he ripped the president by saying, ”George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2847)
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