When Egos Attack

First off, this has nothing to do with race. I don't care what color a persons skin is, don't be an ass.

Kanye West: If you look at the pictures of his red carpet walk to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, you will see in his hand a bottle of Hennessey. If you look at other pictures later, there's less booze in the bottle. So, he was being all edgy and rappery and gettin' his drink on. Asshole.

He jumped on stage and took the mic away from an giddy 19 year old who won, Taylor Swift. Beyonce had the best video ever? Really, drunk boy? I disagree. It glorifies the objectification of women. "If you like it then you should have put a ring on it?" Women can be owned? Hmmm... didn't get that memo. And with the frentic dancing in the video was just shy of stripping. I like strippers. I've had friends who stripped. It's not a big deal. But the video wasn't that good.

Taylor Swift is 19 years old. And she won. She was shellshocked by your boorish behavior. The people in the control room had no idea what to do with your outburst, they shut off Taylor's mic and went to the next video cue, stomping on her chance to recover. Beyonce was a class act and had her come back to do the speech she didn't get the chance to do.

And Kanye? 3 half hearted apologies, but none were a simple, "I'm sorry. I fucked up." He gave excuses and said he needs a break.

Let's give him one. The entire world should take a break from Kanye. Don't pay any attention to him. Don't write about him, listen to his music, please ignore the "celebrity" that is Kanye. He called himself a celebrity. I don't think Elvis called himself a celebrity. Elvis was a singer. Kanye loves that people are talking about him. Even President Obama weighed in and called him a "jackass". That is right up there with Kim Jung Il having a picture taken with Clinton. It puts Kanye on the world stage.

Kanye is a long time, repeating interrupter. In Europe a few years ago he jumped on a mic and said, "If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility." That's a nice ego you got there. What do you do? Rap? You aren't curing cancer or finding ways to get to Mars? You just take other peoples music, tweak it, and talk about how cool you are, how much money you have, how many women you sleep with... Hmm...

Give me back the pissed off days of rap. NWA. Guys with street cred. This guy is the Kanye show. Much Ado About Nothing.