Kanye West says give Chris Brown a break
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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So VH1 did a taping of “Storytellers” and it seems that Kanye West had a lot to say by trashing on Radiohead and that people should give Chris Brown “a break”. That stuff is not going to make it to the show though.
But the comments will not make it to air when the episode premieres on the lifestyle cable network on Saturday.
During the taping, according to a Reuters reporter, West was aggrieved that Radiohead singer Thom Yorke had allegedly snubbed him backstage at the Grammys five days earlier. That hurt, West told the audience, because he idolizes the British band, and considers it one of his few creative rivals.
“So when he performed at the Grammys, I sat the f— down,” West said.
A little later, West asked the crowd, “Can’t we give Chris a break? … I know I make mistakes in life.” He was referring to R&B singer Chris Brown, who was arrested on the night of the Grammys on suspicion of beating his girlfriend Rihanna.
In the same context, West earned loud applause with his declaration: “Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing … He’s a real f—in’ person; he makes mistakes,” referring to the champion swimmer’s recent bong pipe brouhaha.
Yeah, Kanye wants us to chill out on Chris Brown. Okay, we can lay off the guy that beat on his woman for a second. Now this next part is kind of creepy.
VH1 has cleaned up those comments a bit, and it also included West’s less-popular follow-up observation: “O.J. Simpson, amazing. Is he not? What he did, when he did, what he did. Was he not amazing though?”
Oh snap! OJ was amazing? Which part of what he did when he did it was so amazing? Is that the football part? The movie career? Killing his ex-wife? What’s Kanye trying to tells us here?
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