Jay Z spoke out about the Kanye-Taylor Swift MTV Award interruption recently to a BBC Radio Station:
“[Kanye is] like my little brother, I pretty much introduced him on the first Blueprint… He’s just a super passionate person, and of course it was rude because it was her moment but that’s how he really felt… I think it was rude, but I don’t think, the way they’re treating, it’s on the front of every paper, he didn’t kill anybody, like, no one got harmed… At the end of the day, we’re gonna celebrate him for his passion… As he grows and matures, he’s got to know how to balance that. He’ll learn that in the years to come…That passion wasn’t fake, it wasn’t staged… I don’t think he should lay low, I think he should go on tour and have a brilliant career…The thing you have to realize about it, he’s been that passionate from his first record, he used to jump on tables, I’m trying to make the first Blueprint and he’s jumping on tables. [laughs] If he had changed because of his success, then it would be something else, then it would be a different thing but he’s always been that passionate.”
I agree with him about this. Yes, Kanye was completely out of line. Yes….Taylor Swift did not deserve to be treated that way! Yes….Kanye acted up (even for him). But, he has apologized and that is all that he can do.
And still, I am wondering how Jack Black can ask everyone in the audience to hold hands and say a prayer to the Devil and it doesn’t even get a mention. I don’t care if it was supposed to be funny, it wasn’t to me. Now, if someone came out and prayed to God, there would be all kinds of controversy about individual rights…. Does that make any sense?
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