But West’s public performance is part of the reason people follow him, right? If he didn’t say offensive things, if he didn’t have alleged freakouts at late-night variety shows, if he didn’t tweet, if Taylor Swift’s brother didn’t throw his lounge sneakers in the trash, then it just wouldn’t be the same show, would it? We know that, and, of course, Kanye West knows that, too. So it has indeed been a bumpy, up-and-down week for America’s resident genius/madman/prophet/huckster. But then the album seems good and the fashion show was fun and the tweets. The Swift lyric? Hard to read the exact tone there-Irony? Self-seriousness? Outright misogyny?-but depending on where you stand, it didn’t come off very well. Page Six exclusively reported that Kanye West had the epic meltdown behind the scenes last Saturday and petulantly threatened to walk off the show during its. Anonymous sources told the New York Post. “meltdown” really happened, that’s no good. Remember when Kanye did his Pablo thing on SNLAs with other Pablo-related things, drama came up in the 11th hour, according to a report from Page Six. Has Kanye West been a monster this week? Maybe! Certainly his Bill Cosby tweet wasn’t great. story is being conflated with his tweets, or it could all be real and of a piece. Some source at the show tells Page Six that West was saying things about how he is “the greatest artist,” similar to the kind of things he’s been saying on his Twitter account in the past few days. Stanley Kubrick, Ye.' His reference to Swift came days after he name-dropped the pop star in a new track, called Famous. boss Lorne Michael and West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, prevailed, and West did perform, but for a minute there it looked dodgy. By 50 per cent dead or alive, by 50 per cent for the next 1000 years. Supposedly, cooler heads, namely those of S.N.L. No, according to Page Six, there was a whole other incident at Saturday Night Live on, um, Saturday, with West having an “epic meltdown” backstage, saying he was going to walk away from performing on the show. So that’s probably enough for anyone in a seven-day period. At the listening party, West revealed a lyric referring to his past bump-ins with Taylor Swift, a verse claiming that he “made that bitch famous.” Naturally, this ruffled some feathers, with Swift alluding to it during her Grammys acceptance speech last night, and, last Thursday, Swift’s brother throwing his Kanye West shoes in the trash. Stanley Kubrick, 'Ye.Kanye West has had quite a week! He debuted new fashions and a new album at Madison Square Garden, an elaborate event that probably only West could pull off these days. By 50 percent for the next thousand years. By 50 percent more influential than any other human being.By 50 percent, dead or alive. An audio clip has surfaced of rapper Kanye Wests expletive-laced meltdown before his performance on 'Saturday Night Live,' during which he insults Taylor Swift and touts his importance. "Bro, by 50 percent, Stanley Kubrick, Apostle Paul, Picasso, fucking Picasso, and Escobar. The latest in West-gate comes as an uncensored recording of his meltdown at Saturday Night Live hit the interwebs yesterday. In any case, he gets increasingly heated, at one point repeating "don't fuck with me!" three times in a row, and he ventures on to compare himself to the three Pauls who may have had something to do with the naming of The Life of Pablo: Paul the Apostle, Picasso, and Escobar. Another day, another drama for Kanye West. It's not exactly clear if the rest of Kanye's backstage rant is one stream of consciousness or a few compiled audio clips. Upon accepting her Album of the Year award at the Grammys on Monday night, Swift seemed to address Kanye directly, implying that she was absolutely not OK with him taking credit for her fame. A representative for Swift soon denied Taylor had approved of any of the lyrics on "Famous," which is perhaps why Kanye called her "fake" amid his SNL tantrum. On the day after he played The Life of Pablo at MSG, Kanye responded to backlash regarding his rather offensive namedrop of Swift by explaining that he had cleared the idea with the 1989 singer beforehand, insisting it wasn't a diss - rather, a joke that all parties were in on. "Look at that shit, they took my fuckin' stage offa SNL," he began. Frustrated and humiliated by his Twitter rants and meltdowns, Kim has decided that she’s ready to take the ultimate step. Though the SNL's stage team started him off, he went on to namedrop Taylor Swift during his outburst, calling the singer, whom he referenced on The Life of Pablo track "Famous," a "fake ass." Kim Kardashian has issued an ultimatum to her husband, Kanye West. What prompted Kanye's temper to unfold seems to be a miscommunication with regard to the stage design. Today, those rumors have been confirmed, as the same source, PageSix, that broke the story has now released audio of Kanye's backstage meltdown.
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