West unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official
Twitter account Saturday, acknowledging once again that he was wrong for
jumping on stage, taking the trophy that Swift won at the MTV Video
Music Awards and saying that it should have gone to Beyonce.But
the rapper-producer said that he has experienced enormous pain, been the
subject of death wishes and suffered tremendous setback to his career."How deep is the scar ... I bled hard ... cancelled tour with the
number one pop star in the world ... closed the doors of my clothing
office," he tweeted.The multiplatinum, Grammy-winning superstar
had been one of the decade's most successful and critically acclaimed
stars, despite sometimes boorish behavior and meltdowns at other awards
shows when things did not go his way.However, when he upstaged
Swift — the then-teenage darling of pop and country music worlds _the
public had had enough. There was tremendous backlash against West — even
President Barack Obama was caught calling him a "jackass."At
the time, he went on Jay Leno's prime-time show to apologize and said he
still had not recovered from his mother's death two years prior. He
said he would be taking time off from the public eye.That time
off came sooner than expected. He canceled a joint tour with Lady Gaga
that fall, apparently due to low ticket sales. On Twitter, West talked
about the backlash."I'm the guy who at one point could perform
the Justin Timberlake on stage and everyone would be sooo happy that I
was there," he wrote.After the incident, he said, "People
tweeted that they wish I was dead ... No listen. They wanted me to die
people. I carry that. I smile and take pictures through that."West said he's now "ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone."
He also apologized to Swift again, and said he has written a song for her that he hopes she will perform.
"If she won't take it then I will perform it for her," he said.
West is working on a new album that is supposed to come out sometime
this fall. A recent member of Twitter, West has been an active user,
posting not only his feelings, but new songs and other updates. He has
over 900,000 followers since he joined earlier this summer."Man I
love Twitter ... I've always been at the mercy of the press but no more
... The media tried to demonize me," he tweeted Saturday.
You know, it's really just hard to feel sorry for the guy. I mean, first, he made a mistake in doing what he did, obviously. And I find it hard to believe that people were actually blowing it so out of proportions. Then, he goes on Leno and sort of plays victim and, as always, uses his mother's death as an excuse for being an asshole.
Unrelated, he does act very dramatic about the event on twitter. It just seems like a kind of "woe as me" act, to me.
I'd feel the same way if it weren't for the fact that that one little incident pretty much ruined his career forever.
I feel he deserves what he's getting but I really don't think he's ever going to recover from this, and that seems a bit much to me.
You have a point there, but I have faith in that his fans will eventually forgive and forget. He seems very apologetic about the situation, which is more than what I've come to expect of him recently.
The problem with him and other similar hip-hop artists is that they may put out really good music, but the fact that they're douchebags will keep people from listening to his music. So yeah, if people were a bit more mature about it, it shouldn't ruin his career.
(Gee, hasn't anybody learned anything from the Dixie Chicks ordeal?)
Well, it's hardly the first time that Kanye has done something ridiculous and stupid, don't forget this little gem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUzLpO1kxI
The man IS a jackass and obviously treats his pedastool of stardom as a baby with a rattle, if he has a temper tantrum with it, we put him in the box and say no playtime for you.
You realize this is coming in from Kanye West's Twitter account. If you don't understand what that means, here's a sample of some of his previous tweets, set as the captions of New Yorker cartoons.
Let's do the world a great big favor and stop talking about Kanye West. Seriously he only does this stuff because it gets people to notice him.
Sorry to bring the topic back up again, but I thought I should mention... I was watching a Mike Myers movie called "The Love Guru", and in one scene it showed a hockey game and it showed Myers as himself sitting in the crowd next to Kanye West. Mike had a ridiculously uncomfortable expression on his face, and Kanye was screaming "OH!!! OH YEAH!!! I LOVE HOCKEY!!! HOCKEY YEEEAH!!!!" and at the time I really didn't get what was funny about it, other than that Kany was screaming like a total idiot.
Afterwards, I got on this site, on this topic, and I read Craig's post and then I got the joke. It's actually pretty funny
