You can have balls and also have class. Unfortunately, Kanye only has the former. A 32-year-old man ruining a moment of achievement for a 19-year-old girl because they like another girl more is totally classless and juvenile. I don't care if he apologizes afterward.
He's had enough time to understand what is appropriate behavior.
I grant he's a talented musician. I usually like his work. But just as I separate the art from the artist, and can appreciate good art by an unpleasant human being, I also can appreciate character without my estimation of it being colored by talent in his field. His body of work forgives him no personal faults in my book.
He's talented, but classless, rude, and a spoiled, egotistical child.
Once I found his outbursts quaint. "Oh look!" I thought, "He wants to show us his ego is as big as Axl Rose's!"
But when you have to
steal things from other people to feed your ego -- and make no mistake, that was the
theft of a person's moment -- you make clear you are a repugnant solipsist.
He's done this time and again, usually on his own behalf, throwing temper tantrums like a child when he doesn't win. And that's not balls,
that's just pathetic.
He does this so often, you just know there's a parody video on the way:
(A small office. A BOSS sits behind the desk, and his employee JOE waits nervously in the chair across from him.)
BOSS: After much consideration, I've decided to promote you to Vice-President. (extends hand)
JOE: (shaking hand) Ohmygosh! Are you serious?! I don't know what to--
(KANYE WEST BARGES IN AND FORCIBLY PARTS THEIR HANDS, MID-SHAKE.)
KANYE: (to JOE) Hey Joe -- I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish -- but what I wanted to say was my man Rob out in photocopying knows that Xerox like the back of his hand!!! He's the best photocopier OF ALL TIME!!!
(Pause as KANYE looks at the blank stares of BOSS and JOE. KANYE shrugs, reattaches their hands in midshake, and walks away.)
CUT TO:
(An operating room, mid-surgery. The patient's thoracic cavity open.)
SURGEON: Scalpel.
(ATTENDING hands SURGEON the scalpel. KANYE WEST BARGES IN AND TAKES THE SCALPEL OUT OF THE SURGEON'S HAND.)
KANYE: (to SURGEON) Yo Doc -- I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish -- but Linda up in 317A has been rockin' that dialysis machine like
nobody's business!!! She's the best dialysis recipient OF ALL TIME!!!
She's the one that really deserves this kidney!!!
(Pause as KANYE looks at the blank stares of all in O.R. KANYE shrugs, hands SURGEON back the scalpel, and walks away.)
Seriously, no one should let this douche into another award show unless he's on an 8-inch kevlar-and-spectra-weave tether tied to Paul Reubens or the corpse of Ed McMahon. If they need drama, at least that would supply it, and everyone else would probably be able to see Kanye coming and stop him from further jackassery.
He's scheduled to do the debut of the Leno Show tonight. Perfection would be Jay bumping him for Taylor Swift, and says in his monologue: "Yo Kanye -- I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish... ...
on another show."
Bottom line: Kanye's made himself a joke, and a poor one.