Kanye West makes the sweeping claim he’s risking his life like a ‘police officer or a soldier in war’ just because he could slip while dancing onstage. Now that is just taking one’s self a little too seriously. Oh let’s be blunt here. Kanye has an overly inflated opinion of not only himself but his own importance in the grand scheme of things. He is a self-aggrandizing horse’s ass.
According to the dailymail.com:
Kanye West says performing on his Yeezus tour is similar to going to war.
The 36-year-old claimed in a recent interview that he is risking his life onstage and compared his musical antics to that of a police officer or soldier.
The rapper explained that he could ‘slip’ during one of his complex routines on stage and that he is putting his ‘life at risk, literally’.
‘I’m putting my life at risk, literally!’
Kanye went on to explain: ‘When I think about when I’m on the Can’t Tell Me Nothing, and Coldest Winter moment, like that mountain goes really, really high.
Telling it how he sees it: The 36-year-old claimed performing is like ‘being in a war’
‘And if I slipped… You never know. And I think about it.’
Adding: ‘I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.’
But the Yeezus rapper, who shares daughter North with his fiancée Kim Kardashian, went on to reveal the significance of these ‘risks’ he’s taking.
‘Like you literally going out to do your job every day, knowing that something could happen,’ West said reflectively, ‘Something can happen to you.’
Adding: ‘I’ll explain to my daughter my one day, that me and her mother, we had to fight for this position that we’ll finally have.’
The only thing most of us has seen this trumpeting horse’s ass do is shove women around like he did when he felt the wrong person got a music award. To liken himself to a soldier or a police officer is simply absurd. People trained as military personnel or law enforcement often risk their lives daily for the rest of us. Perhaps Kanye should enlist, just for 6 months, to see if it is the same. I think he would come running home from Afghanistan with his tail between his legs, a much chastened man.
Being a teacher apparently is more dangerous than being Kanye West also. Those 6 teachers who lost their lives in the Sandy Hook massacre a year ago yesterday just got up in the morning, went to school, and soon had their lives abruptly snatched from them in a salvo of gunfire. Their crime was going to work and protecting the children in their charge.
A librarian and debate coach narrowly escaped death by getting out of the building at Arapaho High School in Centennial, Colorado December 13. He had disciplined a student back in September. His sin that day was going to work. The Holocaust survivor who was shot and killed at Virginia Tech in 2007 was just teaching his class. His life was snuffed out also.
No, West is not hero nor is he even close to being as important as he purports to be. I am highly offended on behalf of all those who have served in the military, risked their lives as a law enforcement officer, or walked into a classroom to teach.
I take great offense at calling Kanye West a horse’s ass! My daughter loves horses, and it’s unfair to degrade them by comparing them to such a low life POS such as West.
He’s too immature to realize how stupid he sounds. I wouldn’t sweat it. His “Bush doesn’t care about black people” remark years ago was also ill-considered, and shouldn’t have been taken as any kind of news.
Rick, You are right. However, too many young people look up to fools like Kanye West. Therefore, since he serves as a role model, we really can’t just dismiss him. He appeals to many who are just as immature. I wish I could just say he is irrelevant, but I can’t.
Plus it was a good segue into how many put their lives on the line to keep us safe. those folks sure aren’t the people pulling in the big bucks. Far from it. Teachers also don’t get combat pay.
Today there is a lock down at Harvard in 4 buildings. Some sort of threat. Some idiot came on and said they should take it seriously because it is blocks away from where the Boston marathon was run. Slapping head….are these people just effen stupid? How about you take it seriously because there is a suspicious whatever going on at yet another school. Period. (insert place where lots of people are)
Do any of these talking heads really realize how incredibly stupid they sound? Let’s start with Megyn Kelly and work on up the food chain.
True story, when I went to grad school circa 1988 there was a bomb scare at my college evey other week for a while – obviously someone getting their exam cancelled.
I have to disagree with you. I think most kids probably see Kanye west as more a high string fool than as someone who is any type of role model. Being famous and being held in respect aren’t the same thing. I’m guess a kid nowadays thinks Kanye west knows things about music, but not about much else.
Who are you defining as a kid? If things have changed, they have changed over a very short period of time.
Unfortunately, many kids can’t discern between music and politics. If their hero says it, it must be right.
He also drops the race card a lot and tries to draw people in that way.
“Unfortunately, many kids can’t discern between music and politics. If their hero says it, it must be right.”
That’s been real during our lifetimes, but I think less and less true. We’re in the information age. I think “kids” nowadays don’t need to look up to a Kanye West, a Bob Dylan, a Tupac Shakur, or a Bruce Springsteen the way earlier pre-Internet generations did.
“He also drops the race card a lot and tries to draw people in that way.”
I don’t think anyone is taking him particularly seriously. I defy you to name one person who is. I think he looks to most young people like what he is : a high-strung famous black man who talks a lot and has temper issues.
I have known teenagers who look up to him.
If he DID want to market himself as some paragon of blackness, he wouldn’t have married Kim K. That would not be a popular move if anyone were really looking for black America to draw strength or guidance off of Kanye West.
He’s just a hugh strung celebrity who sometyimes makes music, and is increasingly becoming a spectacle.
I think I probably have known a more….hhhmmm…how to say this….more of a cross section of teenagers than many have. Some smart, some dumb, some defiant, some not so much. I hope you are right and that he is totally irrelevant.
Hmmm, mentioning “ass” and Kim Kardashian’s fiance in the same text sounds reasonable to me.
I think they’ve changed a lot just in the past few years, Moon.
The boys generally don’t spend much time thinking about rock stars, rappers, or celebrities in general. They are into video games. Big time. Music is no longer an ostensible instrument of social change; it is a potentially kick-ass backing track for a cool video game segment.
I think it all depends on who you are and where you live. I think inner city kids are more affected by rap than you think…or whatever the music of the day is. Suburban kids have a different addiction du jour.
I think the biggest unknown is what all these siren calls to youth is going to do in the long run. What is the outcome on down the line.
Not bashing all hip hop or rap but the kind that sings of violence is horrible. I have left stores if I hear it. The same might be said of the video games that mow down thousands in cold blooded mayheim. Why do people crave either? Is there just an addiction to violence and is it mostly a male thing?
The people who create things like “Grand Theft Auto” are having an effect on the way young minds think. moreso than any rapper can.
That particular game – “Grand Theft Auto V” – has supposedly a hard load of social satrire in it. Now, I can’t sit through the gore and mayhem enough to make that out, personally. I am a 48-year old man and it is written in a vocabulary which is to me so vulgar and gruesome that I can’t watch it. But, I’m assured that it is there. And millions of kids are absorbing ideas from it.
“I think inner city kids are more affected by rap than you think”
Probably less than either one of us thinks though. I think they mostly can see that it’s just a show.
“Why do people crave either? Is there just an addiction to violence and is it mostly a male thing?”
To at least some extent, yeah. You can see it when boys play, from a very young age. Give them a toy plane, they will start mock-crashing it pretty soon. Same with toy cars. And they generally love to smash things up.
I remember enjoying that kind of thing at least a little when i was a kid. Playacting cops and robbers. Playacting with little cowboy and indian figures, having them dive off roofs and attack each other. That, basically, is what kids are doing when they play violent video games. It looks bizarre from the outside, because it is closer looking to real things than little plastic cowboys and indians were. But it’s the same childish urge. I think that’s why parents are prone to buyoing games for these kids that look horrific to an outsider. because being in close contact with the child, they can see that the games are basically childish and probably relatively harmless – a high-tech version of what all kids have been doing for thousands of years with toys.
(Full disclosure, I did buy GTA 5 for my 12-year old grandson. His friends were getting it too, and for what they enjoy it for, it’s apparently super cool. I bought it knowing that if any behavioral changes start, his mom will rip it away from him).
Now, what is the evolutionary purpose of this destructiveness – why are men generally so into it? I haven’t thought about that much. Surely it’s not a sublimated sexual urge, if we see 3 and 4 year olds acting this way.
Ah, I remember now, while typing this. It’s the Cain and Abel story. There were two species of early man. One was more peaceful and less prone to fighting. the other was more aggressive. The second one wiped out the first; we are descended from the second one. In a sense that aggressiveness did serve “us” … the more violent species survived.