Kanye West gave a performance that will never be forgotten at the MTV Video Music Awards, but unfortunately for him, it had nothing to do with his music.
The rapper stormed on stage to unleash an astonishing rant during an acceptance speech by country starlet Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards last night.
The 19-year-old singer, who was collecting Best Female Video for You Belong To Me, was left humiliated as West snatched the microphone from her hands.In an outlier to her authentic-as-astroturf albums, Swift had this to say:
I was standing on stage and I was really excited because I'd just won the award and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on stage. And then I wasn't excited anymore after that.
Surprisingly digestible words. Kanye certainly upstaged her, but given that it was at the MTV Video Music Awards and not the Nobel Prize ceremonies — which is to say, who gives a fuck? — Swift came across miffed an appropriately small level. If only the rhetoric of others was commensurate to hers.
Two giant tits Katy Perry went on twitter while still at the awards:
Fuck u Kanye. It's like you stepped on a kitten.
An interesting choice of words from Perry as, after hearing her fireworks song, I wondered if auto-tuning a screeching cat would also result in trivial pop music. Also, [insert Rebecca Black joke].
Speaking of awful artists, the mostly-upright sapient Pink also went on twitter:
Kanye West is the biggest piece of shit on earth. Quote me.
Will do, you reactionary, damaging-to-discourse hack.
From a Gawker post titled "Kanye West, You're a Dick.":
Honestly, Kayne, you look like an asshole. More so than usual. This poor girl had a moment to shine and, as is apparent by her reaction, you stole that and ruined what should have been a proud moment. That's mean and childish and you should be publicly shamed. Oh, wait. Your own fame guarantees that. Good.So too did President Obama get in on the action. Although he was speaking off-the-record, ABC News employees — fortunately — broke protocol and tweeted the President's remark about Kanye:
Jackass.
Even President Carter had something to say, calling it "completely uncalled for". No, really, the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
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| Kanye West murdering 10,000 poor children |
Why bring this up now?
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| Chris "Sorry about the window, I thought it was a woman" Brown |
R&B singer Chris Brown stormed off the set of "Good Morning America" today after co-anchor Robin Roberts asked him about his domestic abuse incident with Rihanna.
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Roberts asked Brown about the situation two more times; Brown seemed increasingly agitated as their conversation progressed. After the interview, Brown performed "Yeah 3x,"
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Brown stormed off stage and went back to his dressing room. Then he came back down the hall, still backstage, and stopped upon seeing the person who produced the segment. Brown didn't have his shirt on.
The show's hair and makeup staff said they had called security because they heard loud noises coming from Brown's dressing room.
It was then discovered that a window had been smashed in Brown's dressing room. The thick glass was destroyed and strewn across the street below.
Bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment*, TMZ:
Robin Roberts asked Chris Brown if she could question him about the Rihanna incident BEFORE the live interview began on "GMA" this morning ... this according to sources connected to the production.
Sources tell TMZ ... Roberts insists both she and other "GMA" staff members spoke with Chris before the interview and asked if it would be OK to fire off "a few questions" about the Rihanna incident ... and Chris approved.* -- The Insider is a really good film. What a random film reference to make!
That Rihanna Incident? From the warrant issued for Chris Brown:
Brown pulled the vehicle over on an unknown street, reached over [Rihanna] with his right hand, opened the car door and attempted to force her out. Brown was unable to force [Rihanna] out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seat belt. When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against the passenger window of the vehicle causing an approximate one inch raised circular contusion. [Rihanna] turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand. He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The assualt caused [Rihanna's] mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle. Brown looked at [Rihanna] and stated, "I'm going to beat the shit out of you when we get home! You wait and see!" [Rihanna] picked up her cellular telephone and called her personal assistant, [redacted]. [Redacted] did not answer the telephone but while her voicemail greeting was playing, [Rihanna] pretended to talk to her and stated, "I'm on my way home. Mare sure the cops are there when I get there." After [Rihanna] faked the call, Brown looked at her and stated, "You just did the stupidest thing ever! Now I'm really going to kill you!" Brown resumed punching [Rihanna] and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in an attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown. Brown continued to punch [Rihanna] on her left arm and hand causing her to suffer a contusion on her left triceps that was approximately two inches in diameter and numerous contusions on her left hand. [Rihanna] then attempted to send a text message to her other personal assistant, [redacted]. Brown snatched the cellular telephone out of her hand and threw it out of the window onto an unknown street.
Brown continued driving and [Rihanna] observed his cellular telephone sitting in his lap. She picked up the cellular telephone with her left hand and before she could make a call he placed her in a head lock with his right hand and continued to drive the vehicle with his left hand. Brown pulled [Rihanna] close to him and bit her on her left ear. She was able to feel the vehicle swerving from right to left as Brown sped away. He stopped the vehicle in front of [redacted] and [Rihanna] turned off the car, removed the key from the ignition and sat on it. Brown did not know what she did with the key and began punching her in the face and arms. He then placed her in a head lock positioning the front of her throat between his bicep and forearm. Brown began applying pressure to [Rihanna's] left and right carotid arteries causing her to be unable to breathe and she began to lose consciousness. She reached up with her left and began attempting to gouge his eyes in an attempt to free herself. Brown bit her left ring and middle fingers and then released her. While Brown continued to punch her, she turned around [and] placed her back against the passenger door. She brought her knees to her chest, placed her feet against Brown's body and began pushing him away. Brown continued to punch her on the legs and feet causing several contusions. [Rihanna] began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away. A resident in the neighborhood heard [Rihanna's] plea for help and called 911, causing a police response. An investigation was conducted and [Rihanna] was issued a Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order (EPO).
That resulted in this:
Kanye West's shadow is tattooed with the face of Taylor Swift, a skinny, white teenage girl. Chris Brown, since savagely beating the living shit out of Rihanna, has toured, released two albums, performed a tribute to dead-molester Michael Jackson at the 2010 BET Awards, starred in an ensemble cast alongside Hayden Christensen Anakin Skywalker in Takers, and had a single hit number one on the the United States R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, a growing fanbase and a continuing record deal.
Without even addressing how a verbal undressing of a skinny, white teenage girl lingers in our society longer than Brown's repeated acts of violence upon Rihanna, just looking at it from what happened to Brown after his repeated acts of violence upon Rihanna, from that angle alone, his post-Good Morning America antics on Tuesday make sense. Here is a man who plead guilty to repeatedly assaulting Rihanna's face, neck, arms and legs and avoided jail time. Additionally, here is a man who has faced no long-term consequences for repeatedly assaulting Rihanna's face, neck, arms and legs. Should it be a shock then that after being asked about his repeated assault of Rihanna's face, neck, arms and legs that Brown threw a tantrum that would make even the most petulant and childish five-year-old wince?
Two things:
It is fitting the beyond petulant and childish Brown has to resort to the "but Billy's mom didn't ground him for jumping off the bridge!" defense. It is unfortunate, however, that Brown seems deluded enough to lack the ability to recognize wrongs discrete the actions of others.
The invocation of Charlie Sheen inspires intellectual gymnastics. As noted before, Sheen has committed numerous atrocities upon women in his past, but yet either in the interest of 'oh, look, a car crash' or 'hey, I wish my life was like Entourage and Charlie is sooo Vinnie Chase', a nonzero percent of the populous has come to celebrate the abusive, unstable individual that Sheen has devolved to. To dissect or understand Brown's angle is not an easy undertaking, as a mind sans nuance can be as unforgiving a script to decipher as hieroglyphics were before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Is he saying he should be celebrated? Is he saying because "they" are celebrated, he should get a pass for his savage beating of Rihanna? Is he over being remorseful about repeatedly assaulting Rihanna's face, neck, arms and legs, and that that is why he's sick of it being brought up? While pinpointing his intent is largely futile, it can be shown that — regardless of the potential candidates — it was both not worth making and embarrassing to even attempt.
Seeing how Kanye West was lampooned for a matter not lacking triviality and how the abusive fuck that is Chris Brown emerged from savagely beating Rihanna with a burgeoning career, the question must be asked: what if Chris Brown's then-girlfriend was Taylor Swift?
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