Dear GOD, Kanye West is like Sarah Palin with a penis. PLEASE STFU for 5 friggin' MINUTES, Kanye!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Kanye West: Taylor Swift Never Defended Me (VIDEO)

First Posted: 11-24-10 02:14 PM | Updated: 11-24-10 04:15 PM



Kanye West capped off his sold-out, surprise show at NYC's Bowery Ballroom Tuesday night with an impassioned rant that attempted to defend his comments regarding George W. Bush and Katrina and criticize Taylor Swift's reaction to his VMA stage storming incident all in one breath.

Here is just part of what he had to say, read a whole transcript at New York magazine:

Everybody needs a villain, don't we? We need to blame someone at all times. For me to be considered a racist for stating a blatant truth, an obvious truth, but the nuances of my words, because I am very particular with my words, and the emotion I felt at that time wasn't worded exactly right - but everybody came and said 'Oh my God!" - I'm talking about five years ago, not a year ago, I'm talking about five years ago, I'm talking about Katrina - and everybody said, "Oh my God, Kanye, I love you so much, I hated you until you said that. But now I see you're speaking for me. I always thought you were an asshole but now you said something that represents me, but the whole time, whole time I'm thinking in my mind I was thinking that's not exactly what I wanted to say, I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to say, I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to word it, but I wrote it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it, that's the way I rode the waves of the Bush comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/kanye-west-taylor-swift-n_n_788174.html

[blonndee]

1. It's a shame he's like that.

He has a lot of talent, IMO. I hope he'll grow up someday.

[Iggo]

2. I think that might be a run-on sentence. (n/t)

[tigereye]

3. yeah, but isn't he more liberal? You didn't hear Sarah lambasting Bush

about his lack of concern for African-Americans in NOLA. :shrug:



No Problem with his ego, though.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I still applaud his Katrina moment...

...it's pretty much everything else that followed, especially the Taylor Swift stuff, that impresses me less.

[Chan790]

6. See the Swift stuff impressed me greatly...

speaking truth to the banal crushing wave of mediocrity pushed by the music industry. Sure his timing stunk, but tell me what he said was untrue. :shrug:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. Oh, it was all true...

...but it's like the Katrina stuff. If he just said it, that would be one thing. But look at what happened...Bush pissed and moaned and whined about how it was the "worst moment of his presidency," and Kanye apologized.

And with the Swift stuff, he did it. If he did it and owned it and that was it, fine. But he has these little outbursts, truth-based or not, and then we get the soul searching and self-analysis and when you put it all together it equals "Kanye is a high-maintenance pain in the ass."

:toast:

[Iggo]

8. Oh, come on!

He was just mad because his favorite mediocre pop star wasn't getting as much love as some other mediocre pop star.

[pgodbold]

5. Thank you! Sara Palin's penis indeed! I wish I had thought of that. nt

[KamaAina]

9. Celebrity Deathmatch!

At last, a contrived TV environment in which a Palin might be able to win without rigging the vote! :P

[MilesColtrane]

10. I get tired of multimillionaires whining about being victims.

This dude needs to get a hobby.

[CBGLuthier]

11. I can only imagine the utter sadness

if even the tiniest aspect of my life revolved around any of these people. If their egos had teeth these stars would eat the world.

[Lil Missy]

12. What a jackass. n/t