When Beck won Album of the Year over Beyonce, it looked like Ye was set to repeat his infamous Taylor Swift interruption at the 2009 VMAs, but he aborted with a smile.
It was a joke … right???
No ma’am. Following the award ceremony, Ye told E! News, that he actually didn’t believe Beck deserved the award.
“I just know that the Grammys, if they want real artists, to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain’t gonna play with them no more,” he said, upset that Beck beat Beyonce in the category. “And Beck needs to respect artistry and he should’ve given his award to Beyonce.”
He went on to say he and other artists were “tired” of being disrespected by the Grammys.
“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration,” said West. “And we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.”
He said the reason he decided not to crash the stage was out of consideration for his daughter, North, and his wife, Kim K.
“I’m not gonna do nothing to put my daughter at risk, but I am here to fight for creativity,” he said. “That’s the reason why I didn’t say anything tonight, but you all know what it meant when ‘Ye walked out on that stage!”
He also took issue with E!’s microphones, which displayed the network’s logo.
“Who designed these mics that you see? I took the E! off my mic. Okay we know, it’s gonna be E! already! It’s gonna be E! at the bottom of the screen right here,” he said, pointing into the camera. “We need to step up the taste level across the board on all networks. So you can see these outfits!”
He then had the after-party special co-hosts Terrence Jenkins, Khloe Kardashian, Christina Milian and Zanna Roberts Rossi remove the E! logo from their mic. When Terrence pushed back a little, Ye reminded him, “They need you! Y’all are the personalities, E! needs y’all! The Kardashians have a percentage of E! That’s what I’m saying, they need y’all!” West was then asked to break down the designers of his outfit, which he did much more lightheartedly, and Kim Kardashian recounted how he picked out her outfit of the night.
Before he left, he said, “Don’t let them put that E! back on though!” (They did anyway, and Khloe told the panel that she responded to a text from West and sister Kim that they did so against their wishes.)
My two-cents: Oh Ye … I’m not even surprised. Do you boo boo, do you.
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