Slighty old news....

Kanye West, speaking shortly after the devistation left by Hurricane Katrina. Shown live on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, there is obvious anger and anxiety showing on Kanye's face. As, Mike Myers from my home country CANADA, is in utter disbelief, as Kanye stops reading the CARDS!!!!!!


Info: To Mike Meyer's dismay, Kanye tells the world how he feels. GO KANYE!
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I agree, the reaction of Mike was pretty funny

i seen the vid,pretty funny

I'm all for freedom of expression, but he turns the relief effort into a white/black issue....no respect for him there...

I saw Kanye West in Chicago.

...your point being?

Thanks for all your posts Guys !

Negative or Positive. Much appreciated. I personally liked that Kanye started speaking his mind, they were forced to change to Chris Tucker!
lol

Kanye West isn't exactly the smartest person around. Who cares if he starts speaking his mind if what's on his mind is completely stupid? I mean, the man thinks he's Jesus! How anyone can take him seriously is beyond me. I felt bad for Mike Myers when I first saw that, although it was extremely funny.

i've seen it awhile ago....i'm all for speaking up on issues but that was just dumb.

But you gotta to give him credit for having guts I think he might be the first black rapper to put a WHITE woman in his video That white woman being pamela anderson, and the video being Touch The Sky.

I think he might be the first black rapper to put a WHITE woman in his video That white woman being pamela anderson

Jay Z had her 1st with "big pimpin" but Eve had Gwen Stefani before that....

I saw this vid, I lol'd

Yep kinda old news, but always makes me laugh.

I truly do agree.

LOL. what's your point.

I don't remember a queen or pink floyd video with a black person? How is that relevant? And, that was Trish Stratus in BIG PIMPIN.

Excuse me sir, but we must not forget about the lone white woman dancing at a houseparty in Snoop Dog's, Gin and Juice video.

Agreed, it was in poor form. IMO Bush would have acted irresponsibly regardless of where the tragity occured. It could have been a predominatly white area that suffered due to Bush not wanting to end his holiday. I dont want to open a whole other can of worms, but its just an observation taken from someone on the outside looking in.

Yes it was in poor form. But you have to give it up to him, he has balls to speak his heart. No one on CNN ever talks about the segragation of race in the US, it as if it doesn't exist.
Anyways, Kanye's the man i'd give him my vote if he ran.

i think kanye looks like a beaver lol sllightly off topic but hey!

If Kanye looks like a beaver. Then Mike Myers looks like Rosie O'donnnel.

Maybe the racist New Orleans mayor should have used those school buses and the governer should have acted faster.

But it's so easy to blame Bush when... it wasn't even him that was doing it. FEMA reacted the best they could, nobody was really ready for a disaster that large. Then the violence delayed a lot of help when people were going around raping, killing and shooting at helpers.

So it wasn't Bush. Just cause you say something on tv to a large population doesn't mean you're right.

Come on man, Bush was pretty lazy about the whole thing. Kanye was speaking from his heart.

Those guarders should have been fixed years before this. This is Bush's fault. He didn't even visit for something like 5 days or so, on top of that.

hmmmm, nah i think mike looks more like..... a ferrit yeah baby!

Man I hate defending him, but the accusations are just so wrong.

Well, you are a US citizen from Texas, so i'd figure you would discredit the accusations.

What's a "Kanye West"?

No, he wasn't. The mayor in charge of the very first operations to help people. The governer had the job as well. But while the mayor was worrying about his 'chocolate city' there were tons of buses and plans being ignored to help people.

Those leeves weren't even being watched properly. The corrupt officals in charge of keeping an eye on them would go around check them out make some notes, then go and have a nice pricy meal on the tax payers money, because you know...nothing like looking at leeves all day gives you a hunger for hundreds of dollars per a meal per a person in the watch group. They were the ones that failed first.

Yeah, but 'Bush hates black people'. Maybe black people hate black people then using Kanye West's take of the city because of the insane actions afterwards of the hurricane? Every other place in the world and US were a natural disaster hits people come together and try to help each other and behave for the better of the group. Look at New Orleans, they are a disgusting disgrace to this pattern of human goodwill. Even months after people were stealing from those who needed money from FEMA and more, using it to buy women, booze, trips, guns and among other stuff. Maybe it was a bit of everybody's fault in New Orleans for this. Blaming Bush isn't based on facts. Just an easy target for people who can't think.

Before you jump the gun Kratos, and indicating how me and others "can't think". You should consider that many think Bush was lazy about the situation. Kanye is right, your leader, Bush, obviously donesn't really care about those fighting or not, the black people. I mean come on, he evidently doesn't like BROWN PEOPLE, this is highly evident. He's an elite, one that doesn't give two sh*ts those is segregated poverty. He has not done, or come nearly close to what Clinton did.

Kanye said what he said aggressively, speaking from his heart.
I hear what your saying Kratos, but i think your wrong.

If you have a minute check out the remix of Kanye West’s Golddigger by the Houston-group, the Legendary K.O. .Here.

Lazy? Not really, FEMA moved in but wasn't really ready, criminals (masses of them) didn't help at all, and believe it or not... People were told to leave the city but choose to stay.

Yeah, he doesn't like 'BROWN PEOPLE'. Where's this evidence? I suppose the tooth fairy is holding onto it for you.

What Kanye said was just a quick jab at Bush for no reason. I mean, Bush didn't make Hurricane Katrina and he didn't deny them help. It was one of the largest natural disasters in US history and believe it or not the government doesn't have a bloody magic wand to make everything better. When the storm hit, people should have came together to help each other but they didn't. They went to form gangs and went on criminal sprees. In less then 24 hours an entire city went into lawless pathetic creatures. They're a disgrace to America in their behavior. So why the hell didn't Kanye address them? So easy just to look at Bush and blame him wrongly.

I'm reading about Kanye... Wow, what a loser. Blaming aids on vaccines, blaming America for 'insensitivity' as people in Africa starve, and blaming the white man for something in 'All Falls Down'.

You know, there was a reason he was booed at the Patriots game a couple weeks after his little tissy fit. People think he is stupid.

Ha, no thanks. I don't need to pollute my ears with rap and by this man.

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Firstly, there shouldn't be a need for me to present much evidence. Terrorism was an indefinitle vehicle of change for America, and the way their able to abuse and excersize their powers. Considering Bush broke several laws of the UN going in Iraq in the first place. I learned that back in Political Science Class, there is a common expectation that one will not violate the "norms" of the UN Charter. Making UN corollary chart rules almost unapplicable. I unfortunatly cannot find my old book to describe in more detail. Also, i know your going to counter this will "i would accept the democritization", or "they needed to be liberated of that immoral Sadam".But look at the situation from Iraqi perspective. Put yourself in one of thier shoes for a second, watch the tanks stroll in Falluja and turn it into blood fest 2006. Bush is discrediting brown people as a whole, and muslims aswell. His war ideologies are barbaric, he is the criminal, and needs an impeachment.

Secondly! This that rap song i went out of my way to get you wasn't by Kanye. Merely someone who is from that area and made a hit out of the whole thing. And to add, thanks for saying i was gonna pollute your ears with it.

This convo isn't gonna continue if you come in here and call him loser. He has the right to state any of his opinions, Africa was robbed naked.

Your the kinda guy who believes everything he reads, any propoganda. You obviously went to wikipedia and read the contraversy section on him. They portray him as someone bad, this is not so. He is also the person who made "Jesus Walks", which was a HUGE breakthrough for mainstream music.

Uh huh... and we have the right to defend ourselfs without the UN nodding. It doesn't mean Bush hates brown people though. Just a silly thought.

Rap is very low on my list of music; I can't like everything.

He has a right to express his opinion, just as I have a right to disagree with his ideas and tissy fits.

Propoganda? So he didn't say or act those things?

Jesus Walks...Sounds amusing as I'm not Christian and I firmly believe Jesus was a silly criminal con man that fooled a lot of people.

uh yeah u keep talking like that dude your gonna get this discussion board locked down

No actually we don't have the right, well all other countries NO. But it seems that the strong-hand of America can do whatever it wishes too. Tis a scary, scary thought. I didn't say bush HATES, i said he doesn't LIKE them evidently. Moreoever he doesn't consider them in the middle east as equals or equivelents to him. The barbaric slaughteration of Falluja, mistreated prisoners, forcing them to "pee" on there korans. Was this ever saddening to watch, especially as a Canadian above you seeing the filtered news, as if it's all OK. Acts of terror he instructs will go down historically.

The government would love to turn Kanye into a Cash Cow like 50 Cent, a mindless emcee rapping about nothing more than Woman, Guns and Booze. Prevoking black on black crime, drug sales and gun violence. Kanye, however, speaks from his heart, from what i know, Hip Hop is in dire need of people like him. They portray him in a manner that he is a bad person for that very reason. He is not at all, although i feel his ego grows everyday with all his success, which maybe isn't a good thing. Nevertheless, Kanye didn't say all those things in the context in which they portrayed.

Rap is modern soul or blues music, as Aerosmith says. But i guess it isn't for everyone... my grandparents for instance. Yes Kratos, im comparing you to them. It's whatever, I and your countries are cousins. Cousins can argue, if we didn't we'd get no where. Now curl up in your patriotic American Flag blanket and listen to "Diamonds are from Sierra Leone" - Kanye West..... even thouugh you may dislike what Hiphop sounds like, stands for, or represents. Listen to the beauty of the song.

The accusations discredit themselves with a little bit of education.


and... our lovely education system strikes again!

Could you Please, oh please please PLEASE cite me the name of your textbook where you learned this? If true, and it's made public, it could be a HUGE deal.

The worst part of this is not what West said, it was hilarious in a lookit-that-idiot way, but that I have heard it echoed in so many places. The complete ignorance of the facts is beyond disturbing. FEMA handles emergencies. The State of Louisiana is responsible for maintaining the levees, the governor and mayor for evacuating the areas possibly affected. Bush is responsible for what exactly? Showing up after the fact and raising spirits, waving to a camera and that is about it. Blaming him for a hurricane, yes Whitey is so evil he can control the weather, is just laughable for its complete stupidity.
To believe a word West say is to show an abysmal lack of critical-thinking skills (see my blog), and towering ignorance. He has the right to say whatever he wants, but, apparently, not the ability to release how much of a mongoloid he sounds like.

I've said nothing out of line.



With the infomation at the time, it was right. We don't need permission to defend ourselves.

Oh? How about Canadian law holding alledged terrorists for years as their detention was a 'nightmare' and then they want to deport him to a country where he will be tortured brutally and then killed.

Those are alledged as well for the US' actions. I haven't heard the peeing on the Koran one yet.



Yeah, he's such a great person making stupid comments that stray from the facts. Having lyrics going "**** the police" and "But the white man get paid off of all a dat" and I'm sure there is more in his lyrics.



Good for rap? I really don't care. I just simply don't like it and you're not going to 'convert' me to listening to it by trying to compare it.



I agree.

Hmmm you blame Bush for not fixing the leeves but you don't blame Clinton who had eight
years in office?



And all my people thats drug dealin jus to get by stack ya money till it gets sky high
We wasnt supposed to make it past 25 but the jokes on you we still alive
Throw your hands up in the sky and say we don't care what people say

Kanye West- Just To Get By.

The guy is condoning an illegal activity.


I told her to drive over in your new whip
Bring some friends you cool with
Imma bring da cool whip
Then I want you to strip
See you is my new chick
So we get our grind on
She be grabbin, callin me Biggie like Shine home
Man I swear she fine homes
Why she always lying though
Tellin me them diamonds when she know they rhinestones
She got a light skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
Got a dark skinned friend look like Michael Jackson
I play 'Ready for the World' - she was ready for some action
My dawg said you aint no freak, so you got to prove my man wrong
Imma play this Vandross
You gon' take your pants off
Imma play this Gladys Knight
Me and you gon' get right

Yeah that's talent right there. I don't think Jesus would appriciate his lyrics very much. I probably can find plenty of other crap this guy has spewed to show what an hypocrite he is.



If you have a minute check out the remix of Kanye West's Golddigger by Mind of Mencia's own Carlos Mencia. I think he's is much better and even funnier. Carlos Mencia- Gold Digger

LOL!

He's an artist, his jobs to entertain. Jesus may walk with Kanye West, but he is not Jesus, not a perfect specimen. He's a product of his environment, and is like many others, and If you don't like his sh*t, don't listen to it. Those songs you are proposing im sure are from his old album. His faith in the almighty becomes greater everyday i imagine. The mans ego can get to him when he raps, i mean, when he thinks this up in his head he then says it! If that's what he's thinking, well then he's gonna say it.

"Does he write his own rhymes? Sort of, i think em, that means i forgot better sh** than you ever thought of. Damn is he really that caught up? I ask, if they talk about
classes do my name get brought up?..." - Kanye West


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* I learned this from the author, Dr. Fancis Kofi Abiew. He wrote it in one of his books, and was also my instructor.

*Im gonna pull a Kratos, and say no... i don't have the time... Even though Ned Mencia is funny. Sorry.

Whaaaaa? Because he is a "product of his environment" and an entertainer it gives him the free pass to go against beliefs that he very well uses to sell albums? If you know it is against your beliefs to sell drugs yet you rap about it and glorify it to the millions of people and somehow it's okay because he is just an entertainer then that's just BS.

Believe what you wish.

He is a product of his environment, just like you. Ever since he got in his car accident, he seems to have found a stronger belief system, a greater faith in Christ. Everyday, im sure, he gets better. Judge not. And no, he doesn't GLORIFY drugs, that is simply retarded. In comparison to most others, he's one of the cleanest lyrical mainstream artists out. "You gotta love it though, someone still speak from his soul". - Kanye

I imagine the area he grew up in, is much different, and possibly more oppressed than yours. But im not certain, only the vibe i get from you and kratos. I take it you've never really been to the hood.

And all my people thats drug dealin jus to get by stack ya money till it gets sky high
THAT SENTENCE RIGHT THERE GLORIFIES DRUGS. I just checked the track listing for "College Dropout" and the song with the lyrics above appears only two songs after "Jesus Walks" so no it wasn't made after he became a born-again Christian.
Let's face it. The guy is doing anything and everything possible to enter his name in the history books and he wants to have a status of ambassador for black people.




Kanye was born to Ray and Donda West. Ray West was working as an award-winning photojournalist when Kanye was born, and currently works as a pastoral marriage counselor. Dr. Donda West worked as the Chair of English Department at Chicago State University before retiring to serve as Kanye's manager. After attending The International Academy of Art and Design and Technology, a local art school in Chicago, Kanye then attended Chicago State University.

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I take it Kanye West has never been to the hood either.

LOL. It's nice to see you doing your homework and listening to his music.

One can be a hater, and judge his ways. Even question his faith in christ if that makes you feel better. But the fact his, when he spoke on the news it is from his heart. I doubt he's trying to be a "black ambassador" for his "people", whatever that means. For once someone didn't read the card on CNN. Brilliant. Jannet Jackson pulls out her titty for publicity, and Kanye speaks from his heart on CNN. What's the world comming to?
You should check out the song "The Corners" - Common ft. Kanye West.... or "Crack Music" - Kanye West. AND YES, im sure he's been to the hood.

-On top of being a emcee, Kanye is more known as a Producer. He is one of the most popular and greatest producers in the rap game right now. Moreover, he produced albums for Jay Z and songs for others, before he was famous. Such albums as "The Dynasty" and "Blueprint", platinum selling albums. I give it up to Kanye.