A musician is only relevant because of his music? Novel idea.
Yep, it’s all just a little to convenient. I don’t see him “bum rushing” the stage anywhere, he just seems to appear out of nowhere. No killing the mic, no moving the cameras off him, no one to get in his way. Too nicely staged.
I called the Eminem/Bruno stunt as staged early on while others said “no way, not staged.” This was just more manufactured drama courtesy of MTV.
This is an eminently reasonable position and I endorse it 100%.
Beyonce shows herself to be one class act and a genuinely good person. The opposite of the douchebag that is Kanye West. I’d like to see that punk try his egomaniacal classless shit on 50-Cent or some one else that would put him in his place.
If this is innovation, I want nothing to do with it!
I also thought it was hilarious how he knew one of his albums would be famous because he put a line about how he has a white friend who looks like Michael Jackson. Because no one’s ever made an observation about MJ looking light skinned before.
How do we know that’s the video he was talking about if it wasn’t even nominated? That’s not the only video Beyonce did this year, is it? (I’m just going off the odds here - the woman pumps out an insane amount of music.)
That was actually only a couple months ago. How often are they doing these things now?
I think you and I understand different definitions for the following:
innovative
5th grade grammar
significant
contribution
You could easily find silly lyrics from just about every musician out there. One little stanza doesn’t prove anything. If his music isn’t your cup of tea, ok, but let’s not pretend that the guy is a talentless hack who writes music at a 5th grade level. It’s simply not true. People who dislike hip hop seem to want to dismiss it because of the simplicity of some of the lyrics, without ever taking into account all of the other factors that go into making a great hip hop song.
Written by Kanye West:
And I’d also say that the video is pretty clever as well.
Another song w/Kanye:
Just a fun song that he contributed to, but I think his involvement played a huge part in the success of the song and it certainly didn’t hurt Estelle’s career.
From his Wiki page:
Again, the guy is an ASS. But he’s not a talentless ass.
I think the Bruno thing was actually at the MTV Movie Awards. Fuck knows why MTV does movie awards, of course.
Not one person would be talking about the VMAs today if something shocking hadn’t happened, i don’t want to say Kanye is not a jackass but this was completely staged fake drama.
Though I would never eliminate the possibility that it was staged, I think it was an actual moment. This would require Kanye willing to take a huge PR hit and Taylor Swift having her moment of winning an VMA become YouTube fodder. The only winner here is Beyonce… who didn’t need the publicity.
I imagine at an awards show, performing talent is always floating around backstage. It’s not like he climbed on stage from the crowd.
As the proud owner of a “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” shirt, I am putting that sucker in the cold freeze. Kanye is annoying as shit, and the bottom line, it was a tacky-assed thing to do to a 17 year old. Let her have her moment, asshole.
I agree he wouldn’t have done it to a guy, and it instigates the whole race issue with him. I understand he’s a talented rapper (I only know his crossover stuff), but he is becoming one of America’s leading douchebags.
For everyone’s sake, I hope you never address a crowd with Kanye West and Joe Wilson in the vicinity.
DigitalC, I think there would be plenty to talk about. MJ’s tribute with Janet was brilliant, as was Madonna’s speech. Lady Gaga did a kooky ass performance. In fact, in a lot of ways Kanye pissed on the grave of MJ by stealing the headlines from that performance to make it about him.
If I were planning the MTV outrage of the day, the next one would be someone on stage calling Kanye a stupid nigger. Add a million more outrage points if a white person does it. I’d pick Emenem.
That outrage would be justified. I hate that word and all contexts in which its used.
I wasn’t all that impressed by “Heartless” either. I still don’t get this genius label. At best it sounds mediocre, and at worst it sounds like crap. Pretty much every lyric of his just sounds so banal to me.
They’re trying to justify keeping the M.
I’d have to agree with this. Awards ceremonies, especially this one, live off the contreversery now. If this or something similar hadn’t happened, who’d really be talking about the VMA’s (except MTV spokespeople) today?
Also, he ‘rushed the stage?’ Really? Looked like he walked on with a live mic. If it was spontaneous, I’d suspect -having- a live mic would’ve been difficult, and if he was doing something the director of the show didn’t approve of / plan, his audio would’ve been cut. Simple as that. Sure, it’s negative publicity, but it’s getting people to watch clips of the VMA’s and keep the names of various singers on their lips for at least another day.
I just submitted a “Kanye West doesn’t care about Beyonce” t-shirt design to bustedtees.com. 
I was wondering about that myself. I’ve never been backstage at the VMAs, but I’d assume that there aren’t live mics just lying around.
Oops, watched it again, and Banquet Bear is right. He definitely took Swift’s microphone.
…no, it doesn’t look that way. Watch the footage: he obviously took Taylor Swift’s microphone and then gave it back to her after he finished speaking.
Enderw24, fwiw, I got it.