What a Tittybaby

Kanye's got a blog, and he's not afraid to use it
The rapper just unleashed this rant about his performance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, where angry fans started throwing stuff on stage after he went on late - very very late.
Says Kanye:
"I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall… Why???? I understand if people don't like me because I like me or if people think tight clothes look gay or people say I run my mouth to much, But this Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I've ever had in my life. This is the most offended I've ever been… this is the maddest I ever will be. I'm typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!! Call me any name you want…. arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of…. BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL! NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL! THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN! LIKE ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />WAYNE SAYS PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME DOWN CAUSE I'M FLYING! I'M FUCKING HURT BY THIS ONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE FANS. JUST SAY THIS OUT LOUD IN A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE, "KANYE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT GIVING A GOOD PERFORMANCE." CAN ANYONE HONESTLY SAY THAT ????????? HAS ANYONE EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO AT LEAST DO THE MATH??? BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN'T LET'S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!! FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES… WE'D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY'D SAY OK… THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN'T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN'T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY. THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE … I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT'S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS! MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED. FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOURLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT THAT POINT WE'RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT 4:20AM DON COMES BACK 2 THE BUS AND TELLS ME, " IT WOULD TAKE 45 MORE MINUTES TO PUT ALL YOUR PYRO IN!" I SAY I HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . I HIT THE STAGE AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROWING SHIT ON THE STAGE AND HAD ACTUALLY HIT THE JANE SCREEN WITH, I GUESS BOTTLES OR SOMETHING AND HAD BROKEN MY FUCKING SCREEN. REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A SHORTY AND WATER WOULD HIT THE TV?????? WHEN I GOT 2 "THROUGH THE WIRE" I STEPPED ON THE FRONT PART OF MY STAGE AND THERE WAS SO MUCH LIQUID ON THE STAGE I COULDN'T MOVE WITHOUT SLIPPING. I HAD TO ADJUST MY WHOLE PERFORMANCE STYLE BECAUSE OF IT. A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT'S WAY UP.. I CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE I WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN. I'VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT'S CONCEPTION. REMEMBER LAST SUMMER WHEN I CANCELED SOME TV APPEARANCES. IT WAS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO PERFORM STRONGER IN THE DAYTIME. ANYONE WHO CAME TO THE GLOW TOUR CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WANTED PEOPLE TO SEE IT PROPERLY. IT BROKE MY HEART THAT I COULDN'T GIVE THESE FANS STRONGER IN IT'S GREATEST FORM… BY THE TIME I GOT TO STRONGER IT WAS DAYTIME AND IT BROKE MY HEART. I'M SORRY TO EVERYONE THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY 2 GIVE THE PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO. I'M SORRY… SOMETIMES I GO 2, 3 DAYS W/O SLEEP WORKING ON MY PERFORMANCE… I HAVE TO ICE MY KNEES AFTER EVERY SHOW AND THEY HURT WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE AIRPORT… HAVING AN EXPENSIVE STAGE CUTS MY PAYDAY IN HALF… CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL!!!"




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(and a snippet about Kanye from my Bonnaroo blog.......consolidation people, consolidation)

Bonnaroo and things of such...
Ok as we all know this past weekend was Bonnarro. Let's go over the highlights...
Thursday night-
Saw MGMT......they were awesome. Really couldn't have been better. They made a few comments about how they were out of tune b/c of the humidity but really, no one cared. they were great.
Saw 2 ppl having sex right in front of me on the dancefloor of the disco (not the silent one). that was interesting (and hard to not watch). it was also very creative.
Saw Vampire Weekend. I think they were a bit dissapointing for all. Everyone in our camp was pretty stoked to see them, but we were all left wanting more. They didn't suck by any means........they just weren't great.

Friday- Didn't get to go but heard i missed some awesome music. Hope M.I.A isn't really retiring!

Saturday-
Didn't catch much at all Saturday morning b/c i was running my little tushy off but heard Sharon Jones and the Dapp Kings and was very impressed.
Saw (obviously) Ben Folds set which was reeeeaaaaaaalllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy great.....but I'm a bit biased. If you're a fan of Bitches Ain't Shit then I hope you were there b/c he retired the song on Saturday.
Saw the Olsen twins. Not performing. Going into the food tent (weird right? pretty sure they dont eat....). They had quite the entourage with them.
Heard most of Jack Johnson ( i was too busy eating free food and drinking free drinks to be bothered with going over to his stage...). He sounded fine. I personally am not a huge fan but i get that his music is chill. I did find it funny that from where I was the bass line was the clearest thing, and it hardly changed (if at all) throughout his entire set.
Saw Pearl Jam. Now I am not a huge Pearl Jam fan. Not that I dont like them, I"m just not one of those people who have all their albums and have been a crazy fan since the beginning of time. But they were good! I dug it.
Saw Sigur Ros. They were incredible! Now granted I wish they had been a bit earlier in the day b/c at this point I had been awake for something like 18 hours and was very sleepy......and they are very chill, so i was fighting with my eyelids for a lot of the show. But if you ever get the chance to see them live, do it. It's pretty great.
Here comes the good part. TRIED to see Kanye. I've seen Kanye like 4 times. I think his music is spectacular, but i think he's a dick at life. He has no respect for anyone's time but his own......he proved that the last time i saw him when he went on an hour and a half late. he proved it again on Saturday when he went on nearly 2 hours after he was supposed to!!!! granted this was no 6pm show that didn't happen til 8........he went on at 4 fucking 30! for a light show! at the crack of dawn! we had to peace out at 3 30. we just couldn't stay and wait for him to potentially not go on at all. now some may say, hey it wasn't totally his fault, pearl jam went over, they didn't have his stage set up, etc etc, blah blah blah. i call bullshit on that excuse. Kanye didn't have to bring his stage set up that is designed for an ARENA! it's a FESTIVAL!!! the whole point is for everything to be bare boned. He was originally supposed to play right after ben folds in the 8 something slot.........he waited until the week before Bonnaroo to throw a bitch fit and decide he HAD to close and on the MAIN stage.
ugh. whatever. it enrages me so much i can't even write about it anymore. kanye is brilliant. everyone knows it. the problem is that he knows it to, and he is BEYOND egotistical. he's nearly a maniac. i would hate to see him lose his fans b/c he can't keep track of time. Kanye. Don't be an ass.


*Originally posted sometine in June 2008*