In The Defense of Kanye West

Kanye’s outburst at the 2009 VMA’s has already cost him fans and respect almost immediately. Everybody from 50 Cent to President Obama himself have criticized Kanye for his actions during Taylor Swifts acceptance speech. For those who haven’t heard or seen the video Hip Hop Rapper/Producer Kanye West crashed the stage during country singer Taylor Swifts acceptance speech for best female video of the year and claimed that Beyonce deserved the award because her video was better.

Now I’m not saying what Kanye did was right but who cares? First of all whats the criteria for best video? It couldn’t be for most creative video because Taylor Swifts video definitely was new creative or innovative if you ask me it’s pretty much like every video I’ve ever seen. You can’t argue the fact that Taylor only won the award because she’s every teen girls idol right now which makes up the majority of MTV’s viewers so basically it’s a popularity contest. Second of all from the day we were introduced to Kanye we knew he was different and spoke his mind. We also know that he had to work damn hard for his shot as a rapper. We know nobody wanted him to rap and just wanted him to be a producer we know how many time’s he’s been shot down. Ever since he did get that chance he’s been an unstoppable force and is now one of hip hop’s biggest icons. We know there are thousands of people who were watching the awards and said to themselves “Taylor Swift didn’t have the best video of the year” the only difference is Kanye West said it to everyone. If you ask me we need more people that speak there mind. The fact that everybody wanted to hang Kanye for speaking his mind on television is ridiculous. He’s just a regular person like you or me who turned into a superstar over night and all he was doing was defending his mentors wife.

Kanye West has had his fair share of embarrassment over the course of his career constantly being criticized for not talking about guns and drugs like his fellow artist even causing various musicians and entertainers to poke fun at his sexuality because he didn’t talk about the same subjects as other artist. Nobody ever came to his defense. I didn’t see people rioting South Park made a whole episode portraying Kanye as being homosexual. So why is it such a big deal that he interrupt her speech? How is what Kanye did any worse than other celebrity’s appearing drunk on television and making a fool of them self’s? Don’t worry folks Taylor Swift isn’t loosing any sleep over the Kanye incident and I think it’s time that everybody else gets over it to.