Rapper Kanye West: ‘People Look at Me Like I’m…Hitler’
- Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:19am by
Billy Hallowell
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EASTNOR CASTLE DEER PARK, England (The Blaze/AP) — Kanye West says he feels like people look at him like Hitler.
The 34-year-old rapper known for his outbursts was the headline act at the Big Chill music festival Saturday night, where he ranted in the middle of his set about being misunderstood and under-appreciated.
“I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I’m (expletive) insane, like I’m Hitler,” he said. “One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.” Watch West make his comments, below (Hitler comment can be found around 4:20):
Content Warning: Explicit language
West received light boos from the crowd as a result.
The performer also defended the music video for his song “Monster,” which features cannibalism and girls hanging from their necks.
“Who saw the video before it got banned, before they took it down and before women’s groups starting saying that a person that lost the most important woman in his life is now against women in some way?” asked West, referring to the 2007 death of his mother Donda West.
West, who started his set roughly 30-minutes late, apologized to the crowd for his tardiness, saying he needed to make sure his performance was great.
“Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much (expletive) going on in music right now and somebody has to make a (expletive) difference,” he said.
The multiplatinum-seller is known for his outspokenness, most notably his diss toward Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where he grabbed the microphone from her as she accepted the award for best female video and said Beyonce should have won it. In 2005 he said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” during a Hurricane Katrina telethon.
At the music festival, West talked about some of his awards show drama, saying some of his sponsorships were canceled as a result.
But West closed his show on a positive note by paying tribute to Amy Winehouse.
West, who said he met the late singer a few years ago during Paris fashion week, played snippets of Winehouse’s “Tears Dry On Their Own” and “Back to Black.“ He said it was ”beautiful“ to meet the performer and that she was ”amazing.”
Then, in Kanye fashion, he began to rant.
“Thank you for protecting your artists that are still here,” he said to the crowd. “This is for McQueen, for Amy, for Michael and for all the media, can you lighten up on all your artists that are still here?” he asked, receiving a roaring cheer from the crowd and leaving the stage with his 3-man band and 20-something backup dancers.
Back in 2009, comedians Garfunkel and Oates listed a series of quotes and asked their audience to guess which came from Hitler and which came from West. While they made it clear that they were joking in making the outlandish comparison, the quotes are entertaining to say the least:
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Comments (153)
streetrodder
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:35amNever heard any of his music, i just look at him as a dumb A$$.
Report Post »ThomasBombadillo
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:09pmIsn’t he a rapper? No one has heard his music because he has never made any.
Report Post »robert
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:06pmHe’s not insane.
He’s just stupid.
But not quite as stupid as the fools who would pay money to listen to his incredibly talentless performances.
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:38pmBigots should be shunned.
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:18amstreetrodder……….. you are exactly right. he is a full blown dumb a$$. he is another one of the rappers incting young black men to violence. with a few exceptions rap music should be banned. its nothing but trash……………………..
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:44ameveryone tries to be me
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:52amhttp://popwatch.ew.com/2009/04/09/south-park-fish/
Report Post »sdeakins
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:32amKuntye Wuss must have overheard someone say Hitler, otherwise he would never know the word. i doubt he seriously knows who or what a Hitler is.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:58amKanye West DOESN’T LIKE WHITE PEOPLE!
Hows that bigotry and racism cranking Kanye?
Typical, so typical as America has begun to realize…
BLACKS CAN BE RACIST TOO!
AND OFTEN ARE…..
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »DarkFire
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:25amContent Warning: Explicit language – lets call a spade a N!&&ER for what he is! this asssssshooooole goes right up there with uncle al and jessee. The monkey is out of the bag on this one people …………….. oh wait breaking news! ………………. black people are racist too!
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:37amAn the number one question for Kanye West should be.
Q: WHOS YOUR DADDY????
A: RAY WEST (FORMER BLACK PANTHER)
Enuff SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:38amI heard he is a gay fish. who loves fishd*cks.
Report Post »HairOfTheDogSob
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:46amJust another worthless ******
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:39amEverything (which is next to nothing except what I’ve read) he acts like an ill-bred idiot, what does he expect people to do?
Report Post »Finger Follie
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:37amlmao, gay fish… hahaha
Report Post »ShamanWorld
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:06pmToo bad white people always think black people should have the same POV as them. We have our own identity, and if it was as racist as you people and the Blaze portray it to be, then what about these facts: Why are there so many mixed couples? Why are the youth so integrated? There is not 1 mainstream black-owned media outlet(not BET either), so why do people think the MSM would carry our water(average black person)? Rap music has bridged cultures,countries, races. Sports has totally broken down barriers on COMMUNICATION and mutual respect between cultures and races. Only those who WANT things to be racist and set “A BLAZE” will take isolated incidents and use it to separate the USA.
Report Post »Ddrummer68
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:19pmShamanworld, that you said
1) “White people always think…”, and
2) “We have our own identity”
is, in itself, racist.
Mixed couples are beside the point, except that they demonstrate that some blacks – and some whites – are not paralyzed by racism. I’d hope that the vast majority of people of all races, are not racist. As to Kanye West, I don‘t know what’s in his heart, but he consistently attributes the worst possible motives to white people, leading me to believe he is racist.
As far as rap music bridging cultures, etc., we can drop the “rap” modifier altogether. Ragtime, Jazz, Blues, Rock & Roll, etc., have always had a tendency to bring diverse groups of people together. As do sports, and the arts generally.
I live in New Orleans – a huge melting pot of races and cultures. Probably 8-10% of folks have more than a passing amount of racism. Those people are sad, and mostly, dying off with time. In general though, whites and blacks get along fine here, up until the point where the entrenched leadership gets involved. They have a vested interest in keeping us suspicious of each other. They divide us up by race, income, religion, sexuality, it doesn’t matter. They know that a united populace is the enemy of the political status quo. It‘s very sad that this seems to be what’s going on in our country as well.
There are some racist folks that post here; I wish they wouldn’t. But I can‘t stop ’em. And it doesn’t make the site ra
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:23pm@Gotta Light
Report Post »Kanye is good friends with John Mayer, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and many, many other white celebrities.
AvengerK
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:55pmNo not Hitler….Elmer Fudd maybe..but not Hitler.
Report Post »rumpleforeskin
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:20amThat is an insult to Hitler. He has been to the Al Sharpfart school of racisim. There are no books, just pictures so Kanyeee could understand the ideas.
Report Post »CountMeIn
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:32amI’m a little bit impressed that Kanye even knows who Hitler is. Adolph must have shown up in a cartoon he was watching because I doubt he ever head about him.
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:30amBlacks are nuts.
UlyssesP
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:50amNo, they are not nuts.
Report Post »Just this one. And it has nothing to do with the genetic fact of his pigmentation and everything to do with his deluded perception of the importance of his pigmentation.
DREDGE
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:03amNegros are nuts! One step out of the jungle!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:45amWhere do all these DEMOCRAT plants come from?? You can always tell a DEMOCRAT plant (like Dredge) by the over the top insults. But the plain fact is over 90% of Blacks did vote for the Black Guy , just because he was a Black Guy. (Is that fact insensitive? T/S )
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:23amI love all the people that take up for blacks, you want to see the truth, compare New Orleans and the Mississippi gulf coast after Katrina. New Orleans, murders, rapes, looting, violence of all kinds broke out, Mississippi, compassion, charity, and people working together to help each other broke out. Both areas, filled with poor, poorly educated, with of the populations of both living off welfare. Both hit by same storm, at the same time, and in many ways Mississippi was hit much harder than New Orleans. The basic difference between the 2 boiled down to the percentage of blacks, and the mob mentality that blacks fall back into when you put a group of them together in a stressful situation.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:00amSome of you people are no better, the way you’re talking. There are as many hateful white people as there are blacks. Some of you are proving it right now by these comments!
Just like I disapprove of Obama, not because he’s black, but because he’s leading us down a destructive path. That path is getting wider since last Friday. No, it’s not the fault of the Tea Party, it’s the fault of our current regime who want to take us into socialism. See how you like that when it happens. You won’t be able to complain about blacks or anyone, may not even have food.
Report Post »freeus
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:27amOffensive.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:25amWith these so-called entertainers, you will notice they all think people all people pine tp know their every waking thought! They all obtained their personalities at “Egos Are Us”.
Report Post »JQPublic
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:17amOne day the light may shine down on Kanye and he may realize he’s just an entertainer. A controversial entertainer at that. A microphone does not make an opinion valid. More entertainers need to realize this.
Report Post »Entertainers also need to realize everybody is not entertained by the same things. If he wants to be loved by everyone his best bet would be to buy a few cardigan sweaters and start doing Pat Boone covers and keep his commentary to “spay and neuter your pets”.
Finger Follie
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:40amAmen! Well said.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:25amHe should grow one of those little moustaches. See if it stops.
Report Post »Gunga Din
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:23amDumme Esel
Report Post »brntout
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:22amCan’t get the word Jacka@@ out of my head.Hey Obama thanks for that one!
Report Post »TrailerParkDave
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:21amI would look at you like the self absorbed, egotistical moron you really are! Have a nice day.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:10amKanye is irrelevant. Pass the gravy.
Report Post »rickbob
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:15am“I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I’m (expletive) insane, like I’m Hitler,” DUH!!
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:07amYeah, but wouldn’t it pain Mr. West more to know that a great many of us would pass him in the street and neither recognize hiim… nor care if told who he was?
Report Post »Someone sure has a high opinion of himself….
“Kanye who?”
Soul Leister
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:07amLaughable? By comparison, Kanye hates all whites (even if they be given him money) deadbeat brothers get a free pass… Hitler only had a problem with jews (with da furer, it was a religious thing but with Kanye its all about racism 24/7, with a dash of democrat empowerment to spice up his fischizzil… because he is an old school racist… then again adolf (hitler not kanye) was for a master racer too). IT LOOKS LIKE THEY DO HAVE A LOT IN COMMON… I wonder if rapper Common if full yet, what with hitler, kanye and his own head all up in him?
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:26pm“Kanye hates all whites”
Report Post »FALSE
Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:04amI wouldn’t recognize him. Rap is terrible. I don’t even consider it music. It’s just talking to a beat.
Report Post »Very annoying when kids crank it up and all you can hear is a bass guitar playing one or two notes over and over or some guy talking crude nonsense with the beat.
He’s famous for taking the microphone from some woman at the country music awards and beating up his wife or girlfriend, I think? Or is he the guy that was pretending to rape a child on stage?
TRUTH
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:28pmHe took the mic from Taylor Swift at an MTV music video award show. He does not beat his girlfriends (proof: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rosewood), and has not done anything inappropriate on stage.
Report Post »semidisk
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:58pmHaha, no. Kanye’s completely harmless. He just does lots of things that make people tsk and say “Hey, you jerk.” Nothing like those things. (Except for the taking the mic thing. That’s the worst kind of thing he does.)
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:01amI don’t Rapper Kanye. I look at you like your a _______.
Report Post »meeester
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:58amHow do you think Hitler would feel about that comparison?
Report Post »orthodoxc
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:49amAre Kanye West and Charlie Sheen related? Both are paranoid, both are complete morons!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:07amBoth are also stinking rich. Are they really nuts? People have a need to hate, this can be seen by the trolls in this place. We do the same over the left. Hate is in, you either hate the tea party, Bush, or Obama and the socialists. We need a villain, we are no longer looking for a hero. We want someone we can despise. Morons? I wonder…
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:39amWhat an arse. This is news?
Report Post »So
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:49amKayne, get on stage again, take the mic from an award winner, and tell the audience how someone else should have won.
Loser.
Report Post »THE EQUALIZER
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:39amNo Kanye…some people liked Hitler.
Report Post »Hula Calhoun
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:30amEnough people liked Hitler to not only vote him in as Chancellor, but to give him ultimate authority. Scary, he ran on the notion of “hope and change” too.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:00pmAdolf Hitler and Kayne West both are non smokers.
There! I said something nice about both of them lol Happy?
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:38amLike Hitler? Oh, no no no no no…….. They look at you like you’re an idiot of the highest order, Mr West. Anyway, if the shoe fits…….
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:38amI understand everything you ever did now Kanye! It is called Ignorance!
Report Post »freedomofspeech
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:33amthat’s why they call it dope.
Report Post »Seasoldier
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:51amNarcissism, anyone? Please. There are more than 311 million people in this country and more than 6 billion people in the world. The vast majority don’t even know this idiot exists, let alone have an opinion about him. One problem with our media, including The Blaze, is that they bother to give pronouncements like this even a minute’s worth of notice. If the media is going to cover these kinds of people, they should focus on the disgusting lyrics of their published works and on the corporations that pollute the culture by publishing and promoting this filth.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:31amNo not like Hitler, like the evil he spews. Get it right pal.
Report Post »briten821
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:31amPeople look at you, not like you’re Hitler, but like you are a horrible, self centered, drunken fame whore who uses music to teach kids to be just like you. People like you should never be called artists. They should be called menaces to society.
So
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:26amNo talent.
Report Post »Hungry_i
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:26am“Watch West make his comments, below (Hitler comment can be found around 4:20):”
4:20??? I didn’t make it to :01.
Report Post »Calamity Jane
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:10amI couldn’t even bring myself to play the video. I saw the headline, read a few comments and then scrolled to the bottom of the page to post my comment. I’m becoming angry with myself for even paying any attention to some of the drivel which passes as news on the Blaze.
C’mon Scott Baker! Could we have a tad more substance instead of this tripe? I don’t care what this clown Kanye has to say, and for that matter, I don‘t see the need for covering every other utterance that comes out of Jon Stewart’s mouth……Much larger issues exist that deserve the space on this site.
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