Kanye West is….I don’t even know at this point. I still think he’s funny and weird and a huge ball of narcissism, hypocrisy, insanity and genius. But I understand if you disagree. Kanye and Kim Kardashian have been on the road for the past week or so. They’ve been in Australia, where Kanye has been playing shows and Kim has been doing events for the Kardashian Kollection. During his Aussie shows, Kanye has apparently been ordering every person in the arenas to “stand up” while he performs. During his Sydney concert, he apparently stopped the entire show because a few people weren’t standing. As it turns out, they had good reasons for being “seated.”
He came under fire for demanding fans at his Melbourne show on Wednesday stand up ‘unless y’all sitting down because y’all handicapped.’ But during the Yeezus tour in Sydney on Friday night, rapper Kanye West went a step further, stopping the whole show at Qantas Credit Union Arena when two seated fans wouldn’t get to their feet – because they were in wheelchairs.
Fans at the performance confirmed the incident to Daily Mail Australia on Saturday after a series of Tweets about the moment flooded social media, with one saying ‘He wanted the crowd to stand up and couldn’t see why they were seated. Once it clicked that they couldn’t, he started the song.’
An eyewitness told Daily Mail Australia Kanye had refused to perform until the crowd were on their feet, saying, ‘I can’t do this song, I can’t do this show until everybody stand up. Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and s**t. Imma see you if you ain’t standing up, believe me, I’m very good at that.’
When the musician saw a concertgoer waving a prosthetic limb to explain why they weren’t dancing, he acknowledged them, saying: ‘Okay, you fine!’
But when another fan remained seated, he stopped the song Good Life, saying, ‘This is the longest I’ve had to wait to do a song, it’s unbelievable,’ before sending bodyguard Pascal Duvier into the arena to check whether the person was in fact in a wheelchair- which they were.
‘The crowd was also yelling that he was in a wheelchair but he waited for Pascal’s confirmation,’ the witness said, while others said the crowd made ‘wheelchair motions’ to alert the singer to his mistake. ‘When he sent Pascal up there he said, ‘He is in a wheelchair? It’s fine!’ the witness reported.
Other witnesses wrote, ‘Kanye made everyone stand up…. Berated a dude for not standing up… Stopped the whole show… Turns out the dude was in a wheelchair.’ Another said, ‘Kanye accidentally yelled at a dude in a wheelchair tonight.’
I would have really loved to hear the rest of Kanye’s rant. I imagine it would have gone something like this:
I can’t do this song, I can’t do this show until everybody stand up. Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and s–t. Imma see you if you ain’t standing up, believe me, I’m very good at that. I got x-ray vision for people not standing, brah, you gotta stand. What’s that, man? You’re in a wheelchair? I don’t believe you because my genius rays are like Jesus Christ and Imma tell you that you should be able to walk when you’re in my presence because I can heal the sick with my mind, y’all, you need to get that. Walt Disney works through me and Ghost Tupac is up in here, making all y’all stand up, Imma give ya legs and like heal AIDS next. No, I’m not going to sing, dog. I’m not gonna sing until I cure AIDS and Ebola with my mind and everybody is standing. Imma about to drop some Jonas Salk up in here. It’s about to get real.
DONE.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News.
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