Kanye West a Sore Loser

[misssakura]

I always hate it when artists go up on the stage and take credit for the music video. Fair enough if Kanye went up there and started singing praises of Chris Milk, cus the guy is pretty talented. But he went up there and acted as if he'd had a hand in creating this video. I personally prefer the cinematography a lot more than the Simian Vs. Justice but the video itself is pretty generic. Unless Kanye storyboarded, directed, edited the whole thing he cannot take credit for it, the same for a lot of artists. Even the ones who won shouldn't have been up there.

 

[Uchina]

Strangely enough, I happen to think that launching a defense of uneducated, misogynistic, exploitive millionaires as if they have a scrap of artistic credibility to begin with is a fairly uneducated thing to do.

There may be the rare exception (even a stopped clock gets the time right twice a day) but mainstream rap & hip hop - the little middle class brat Kanye West included - are complete poison.

People like Ja-Rule and Kanye aren't hip hop artists. They're moneymaking robots for the industry

 

[mint condish]

Re: AlyOgdi

I'm not even going to bother trying to reason with people who dismiss a whole genre. You can't reason with non-reason.

I do think Kanye is talented but then again I think this behaviour is another example of him being basically a silly b*tch.

 

[Zen]

People like Ja-Rule and Kanye aren't hip hop artists. They're moneymaking robots for the industry

Well....aren't a lot of them like that these days? Moneymaking robots for
the undustry????

 

[electricladyland]

Um...this picture almost turned me into a satanist.

 

[misssakura]

Oh my...heavens...o_o;

 

[Deleted member 82231]

Kanye apologises:

http://musicnews.virgin.net/Virgin/Lifestyle/Music/virginMusicNewsDetail/0,13556,1673908_music,00.html

(sort of)

 

[swizzlekiss0125]

that's the least apologetic apology i've ever heard/read! i didn't see any kind of humor on his face, and always hate it when people insist that others just don't "get" their ideas/sense of humor, as if there's something lacking in the other person simply because they don't see what a "genius" you are (does that make any sense? lol)

 

[JJohnson]

I love Kanye! That's something I would have totally done! LOL!!!!!!

 

[VainJane]

Evel Knievel sues over video

The video re-creates Knievel's attempt to jump a canyon in 1974

Daredevil stuntman Evel Knievel is suing rapper Kanye West over a music video in which the star jumps across a canyon in a rocket-powered vehicle.
Knievel, 68, claims the video infringes copyright and tarnishes his image by its "vulgar, sexual" nature.
In it, West is renamed Evel Kanyevel, wears a jumpsuit similar to Knievel's and cavorts with Pamela Anderson.
Knievel is seeking damages and a halt to distribution of the video, which was made for the single Touch the Sky.
"The guy just went too far using me to promote his filth to the world," said Knievel. "What a cheap shot. What a cheap, two-bit shot."
A spokesman for West said he had no comment.
Canyon jump

West was angered when his video failed to win at the MTV awards

The video, which was released earlier this year, appears to be a parody of Knievel's attempt to jump Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974.
The stunt failed after a parachute on his rocket-powered "Skycycle" opened too early.
In his legal case, Knievel, whose real name is Robert Craig Knievel Jr, says the vehicle featured in West's video is "visually indistinguishable" from the Skycycle.
In addition to West, record label Roc-A-Fella and video director Chris Milk are named in the case.
Knievel's lawyer, Richard Fee, dismissed suggestions that the video could be defended on grounds that it constitutes parody.
"A parody is something that's characterised by comedic content and that video is not a comedy," Mr Fee told Reuters news agency. "It's a music video used to sell Mr West's musical works."
Stage protest
It is not the first time the video had attracted controversy.
When it failed to win the award for best video at this year's MTV Europe music awards, West stormed the stage to protest.
"[My video] cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it, I was jumping across canyons," he said. "If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility."
He later said the award had gone to dance act Justice vs Simian as a "spreading-the-wealth type thing".
Knievel's death-defying stunts made him a household name in the 1970s.
He has broken about 40 bones through 300 motorcycle jumps, and is full of plates and titanium parts.
The stuntman says his health is failing, having suffered a stroke in September 2005, enduring chronic back pain and the lung disease pulmonary fibrosis.
He said doctors gave him three years to live in 2005, "so now I'm down to two." "I hope they come out with a new medication that will help me," he said. "But who knows?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6175347.stm

 

[pichu888]

i think kanye's very talented, but he does do alot of things that makes me look like a major idiot!