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Disrespectful Grammy Producers Learn The Hard Way That Kanye West Will Not Be Played Off The Stage
Posted by Mark at 5:54 AM on February 12, 2008
Though Herbie Hancock delivered a huge upset by capturing the Album of the Year Grammy that clearly belonged to criminally underappreciated superstar Kanye West and Amy Winehouse selfishly distracted from his four-win night by hoarding five statuettes that would have looked much better upon the humble rapper's mantle (not to mention Winehouse's attention-whore hijacking of the ceremony's precious screentime via satellite), West would, in the end, have his Big Moment, even if he had to fight for it like he's had to battle for every scrap of recognition the System tries to withhold from him.
Some fifteen minutes into the emotional acceptance speech for his Rap Album victory, West chided the producers trying to play him off stage with some "wrap it up" music, then continued on with a rambling, forty-five minute disquisition (which, in fairness, did include a tribute to his mother) on the struggle for respect he may never win, no matter how many more gilded gramophones the Academy grudgingly hands over.
- And the winner is ... Herbie Hancock? [CNN.com]
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nick_r
Posted 7:22 AM 12/2/08
I hear Kanye's ego just got cast in the Cloverfield sequel.
Seriously dude, even James Cameron was tapping you on the shoulder towards the end and whispering, "Yeah, that's a bit much."
nick_r
Benovite
Posted 7:22 AM 12/2/08
I wish Kanye and Natalie Cole would fuck each other with sticks of dynamite.
Oh and lol to Kanye using the words "in good taste".
Benovite
Nomi Malone
Posted 7:22 AM 12/2/08
i didn't know the special bus had a stop at the grammy awards.
Nomi Malone
FrankieButtons
Posted 7:22 AM 12/2/08
It took me a minute to figure out what Adam Brody had to do with any of this.
Kanye's continued arrogance truly is breathtaking.
FrankieButtons
IBentMyWookie
Posted 7:22 AM 12/2/08
goddammit Kanye, I think I showed more than a little restraint by refraining from laughing at the hilarious manner in which your mother died. You ain't getting no more from me.
IBentMyWookie
spankhaus
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
@Sweet Panda Love: I love you for remembering.
spankhaus
jasonelias
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
That music was pumping too. They wanted Kanye's ass off that stage! Ha!
jasonelias
GreatZardoz
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
@Jaguares: aren't we all? We'd be doing well to be sitting in Wookie's section, it would at least be funny.
GreatZardoz
Jaguares
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
@IBentMyWookie: You're going to hell.
Jaguares
icallthebigonebitey
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
Oh those Canadians and their monster egos!
icallthebigonebitey
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
Strong words from a man dressed like Captain EO.
Sweet Panda Love
Shumina
Posted 8:37 AM 12/2/08
"George Bush don't care about Grammys!"
Shumina
Victor Ward
Posted 9:48 AM 12/2/08
Geordi La Forge
Victor Ward
CatherineTrammell
Posted 11:02 AM 12/2/08
Can't someone shoot him? Or does he have to be a rapper?
CatherineTrammell
Miss d
Posted 11:02 AM 12/2/08
I've just upgraded Kanye from Mildly Annoying to Massive Tool...
Miss d
weething
Posted 12:17 PM 12/2/08
I...can't TAKE him anymore. I also cannot stop laughing at his outfit.
weething
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
Posted 1:17 PM 12/2/08
He's the Duke of Douchebagia.
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
itmustbeken
Posted 2:31 PM 12/2/08
Daft Punk should have snatched it right out of his hands.
'Merci! Biotch..."
itmustbeken
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
Posted 3:47 PM 12/2/08
Get down girl. Go 'head get down.
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
Posted 5:02 PM 12/2/08
@yvonnjanae: While I do have sympathy for a son who has lost a mother, Kanye only whipped out that sympathy fuck ploy AFTER they started to play him off.
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
gwendemarco
Posted 5:02 PM 12/2/08
self-entitlement > talent
gwendemarco
yvonnjanae
Posted 5:02 PM 12/2/08
Come on y'all cut him some slack this one time. Like the kind you would cut to Heath Ledger's family. Keep in mind, though you may not have known or cared about Donda West, he has lots of fans who tuned in to the Grammys to see how he would pay tribute to her. Now, if he continues to be a turd, he gets no more sympathy from me.
yvonnjanae
raincoaster5
Posted 6:16 PM 12/2/08
Only one man on Earth can make me think less of Kanye West, and he just did.
raincoaster5
efesus
Posted 6:16 PM 12/2/08
it's because of dipshits like Kanye that I don't listen to music as much anymore.
and @catherinetramell
he has to be a real rapper to get shot. actors OD.
efesus
Suckersapien
Posted 2:32 AM 13/2/08
For me, that was just a display of undiluted ego (using his dead mother to keep from being played off the stage, bragging about an award he hadn't won yet, chiding another rapper for releasing a new album at the same time as him) that I couldn't possibly be mad at West. It's a work of camp insanity in the same manner as "I drink your milkshake."
Suckersapien