RSSThe Real Kanye West
Gene Lalor | November 28, 2010
I felt proud of my older daughter on Thanksgiving Day. I didn’t especially feel pride in the first things Jennifer did that day, namely arising at 4 a.m., rousing my two granddaughters from their slumber, and taking the Long Island Rail Road into New York City just to see a parade. That, I felt, bordered on lunacy even if it was Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but what do I know?
My younger daughter, Jeannie, got up at the same hour on Black Friday just to go shopping which was certifiable lunacy but, again, what do I know?
Anyway, Jennifer and the girls arrived at Herald Square and got ringside standing room in the early morning gloom, in good position to make me proud when she loudly booed Kanye West, loudly enough to draw his attention and frown even amid the enthused applause, hooting, and howling from his fans in attendance.
It’s the right of any American to voice his or her pleasure–or displeasure–at any time, as long as it’s done lawfully and Jennifer felt displeasure with Kanye.
Not being a rap aficionado, I hadn’t heard much of Kanye Amari West before he drunkenly leapt onto the stage at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards and grabbed the microphone from Taylor Swift after she won the Best Female Video award. Seems West didn’t agree with that presentation so he made a fool of himself, and embarrassed his black friend, Beyonce, whom he thought deserved the award instead of Swift.
Okay, we’re all entitled to our opinions and were that the only time West had expressed his so forcefully it might be overlooked, not that anything he says or does has any effect on his career.
Not even being sued by Evel Knieval for trademark infringement and vulgarizing Knieval’s name in a video and not even his two arrests in California for vandalism, grand theft, and assault on paparazzi left any career scars.
Nor did West’s deviaton from script at a 2005 Hurricane Katrina benefit concert when he ripped the president by saying, ”George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Nor did his 2006 episode at the MTV Europe Video Awards ceremony where he originated his jump-on-the-stage act when he claimed he should have won instead of Justice and Simian have any negative effect.
Nor did his allegation that racism had caused Britney Spears instead of Kanye West to be named best anything at the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards.
The race-conscious rapper with an astonishingly over-inflated ego abjectly apologized for all those stunts and, to accentuate his apologies, alleges he seriously considered suicide but reconsidered because he was, well, too needed.
Speaking to an admiring crowd in Los Angeles in October, he described “himself as a pop icon and ‘soldier for culture.’ “ West admitted, “There were times that I contemplated suicide.” However, he added reassuringly, “I will not give up on life again.”
Why the turnabout, you ask? West answered, “There’s so many people that will never get the chance to have their voice heard” as loudly as his. “I do it for them:” http://tiny.cc/9wu3u
What a guy! He would have offed himself if not for the fact that people, mankind, would suffer too greatly from his loss. We the rabble are indeed blessed and forever grateful.
What an ass!
Nuts don’t fall far from nut trees and asses don’t fall far from their parents. Kanye Amari West is the son of former Black Panther, (since “reformed”), Ray West, which goes a long way in explaining both his given names, and his black racism. His middle name is rarely mentioned, nor are his father’s activities in the black racist Panthers.
After all, why would anyone dredge up black racism when it comes to an indispensable, foul-mouthed icon? I would and I would have joined Jennifer in booing Kanye West in Herald Square had I not decided I’d much prefer to sleep in on Thanksgiving morn.
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