Kanye’s 9 Minute Ballroom Rant

Kanye West just doesn’t know when to let it go. After his performance at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, the 33-year-old rapper and singer decided to go on a long and rambling (9 minutes) tirade about haters, George Bush, Taylor Swift and riding waves.

Here’s a little over 3 minutes of that egocentric insanity:

“Everyone needs a villain, don’t we? We need to blame someone at all times and 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 that I felt at that time wasn’t worded exactly right. But everybody came and said, ‘oh my God!’

I’m talking about 5 years ago, I’m not talking about a year 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. Now you’re speaking for me. I always thought you were an asshole but now you said something that represents me.’

And the whole time I’m thinking in my mind, that’s not exactly what I wanted to say. I was emotional. That’s not exactly how I wanted to word it. But I rode it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the wave and rode it, and rode it. That’s the way I rode the wave of the Bush comment. I rode it. It’s not about popular opinion, it’s about when you look in your heart and know what’s right and what’s wrong…”

(Aside: in his mind, Taylor Swift should have defended him? LOL!)

“When you look in your heart, look at what the media did. Look at how they exploited him [Bush]. They said that he said, it was his lowest moment. And America, we took that as a fact. When you look at that interview, he said it was one of his lowest moments. And he said it about 10 different things. But because of the popularity of me, they exploited that…to make you watch the interview, and make you feel that he was stupider than ever to think that a rapper’s comment could be his lowest moment. That’s not what he f*cking said! That’s not what he said! He said it’s ONE of his lowest moments.

(Aside: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Kanye, but it’s really not ‘because of the popularity’ of you and we are not all as stupid as you seem to think.)

But it shows you the way they try to villain-ize! The way they try to do that. Everything would have been okay, if they didn’t play the audio that day! None the wiser! None the wiser! They played the audio, they f*cked up in front of everybody. They f*cked up big time. If you a real artist, have no fear! Say what the f*ck you want, do what you want, make what you want. If it’s meant to be, the people will stand up, like they stood up for me, 600 thousand, after being the most hated person this time last year! ….”

He then goes on to thank a whole bunch of people, including the reporters, bloggers and media he just villanized.

We hope he spends some of that money he just made on some serious therapy.

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