By Tobi Alli
Photo: Music Feed
Rapper, Kanye West, has been under serious heat following the stunt he pulled at his concert, where he insisted that an handicapped person stand up during his concert.
Now he has come out to say a few things he says are bordering on misconceptions about the incident.
During his concert in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, 12 September, Kanye announced, ‘I can’t do this show until everybody stand up. Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and s**t.’
He sent security guard, Pascal Duvier to check whether the seated person was in fact on a wheelchair, and after it was confirmed that was the case, West commenced the show but was hugely criticised and chastised for the humiliation many feel he meted out to the handicapped person.
At another show on Monday, September 16 in Brisbane, he explained the situation with a personally-drafted speech to the audience, explaining that his action was misunderstood.
‘What I want you to do is I want you to run the video everyone’s talkin’ about where I so-called screamed at somebody and everything. I want you to run that, right, since this is such big media-press-news and everything that obviously they trying to demonize me for. It’s like, ‘Welcome to today’s news, ladies and gentlemen.’ We’ve got Americans getting killed on TV, kids getting killed every weekend in Chicago, unarmed people getting killed by police officers.’
‘At my concerts I make sure everybody has as good a time as possible. So all this demonising me, it ain’t gonna work after a while. Pick a new target. Pick a new target. Cos I’m not one of these dumb-a**e artists that you’re used to. You come to me, I’m gonna take my platform and I’m gonna break down this s**t down for real,intelligent people every night so they can understand,’ he added.
Speaking further, West talked about his wife and challenges that comes with building a family.
‘They’ve got this thing where they want the masses—people who’ve never heard my albums—to somehow read a headline that reads negative, and think that I’m a bad person or somethin’. I’m not judging them – I’m just telling you who I am. I’m a married Christian man. I’m not gonna make one of those Ben Affleck statements and s**t if that’s what you’re thinking.’
‘I went from being a rock star across the globe to making the decision to pick one woman, raise a family. For anyone here that’s married, or in a relationship, knows that there’s enough things working against you. I’m not going to make one of them Ben Affleck statements and shit.’
