You know how Kanye West likes to yell at people in wheelchairs? It’s true. There’s video evidence. The Daily Mail (and other outlets) reported over the weekend that during one of Kanye’s Australian shows, he refused to start a song until every single person was standing. Even the people in wheelchairs. When the audience tried to tell Kanye that the one dude he was yelling at was actually unable to stand up, Kanye waited until he got solid confirmation. Here’s the video:
So, the video and the story went viral. Kanye was bashed soundly and justifiably because OMG, who does that? I really hate when musical acts try to get too interactive with the audience, “Clap your hands, stand up, come here,” JUST SING. Just perform. You’re an entertainer. Entertain. Anyway, you would think that this bad press would make Yeezington stop for a moment and reflect on why it was a bad idea to accost a dude in a wheelchair. Nope. A genius like Kanye will not have any moments of self-reflection. Y’all are just haters and #NoDisrespectToBenAffleck, but he’s a married Christian man and apparently that makes him untouchable? Skip ahead to the 1-minute mark:
What Kanye says:
“What I want you to do is I want you to run the video everyone’s talking about where I so-called screamed at somebody and everything. I want you to run that, right, since this is such big media-press-news and everything that obviously they trying to demonize me for. It’s like, “Welcome to today’s news, ladies and gentlemen.” We’ve got Americans getting killed on TV, kids getting killed every weekend in Chicago, unarmed people getting killed by police officers…”
“…It makes you just want to reflect on what are the things that are a little bit more sensationalized than others. … Because they’ve got this thing where they want the masses—people who’ve never heard my albums—to somehow read a headline that reads negative, and think that I’m a bad person or something. I’m not judging, I’m just going to tell you who I am. I’m a married, Christian man.”
He doesn’t get more specific than that, but he does note that even though he’s talking about marriage, he’s no Ben Affleck at the Oscars: “Anyone here that’s married or that’s in a relationship knows that there’s enough things working against you. I’m not going to make one of them Ben Affleck statements and s–t.” Fair enough.
It really cracks me up that Kanye references Ben Affleck consistently in his rants. What’s up with that? No, I’m really asking. Ben Affleck isn’t a gossip fixture so much these days, but I feel like Kanye has his eye on Affleck. Like, Kanye has “Ben Affleck” on Google Alert so he can keep up with all the late-breaking Affleck news. Kanye saw Affleck win an Oscar and he watched Ben’s speech several times so he could reference it later. Does Kanye see Affleck as a force for good or for evil? I can’t decide.
As for the “married Christian man” stuff… I don’t even know what Kanye’s train of thought is there. Is he saying that he’s more moral and righteous than unmarried, un-Christian people? That his married Christian status makes him bulletproof and immune from (justified) criticism?
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