Evil, evil MTV!

• Author: Kim
• Filed under: 'Ze Think Tank, Events, Foreign Artist, Mainstream, Music, News
• Date: Sep 19,2007

Okay, Kanye West rants publicly, and unabashedly “WHY DID I LOSE?!” at the recently held MTV Video Music Awards. I’m sure some of you have heard of it. He rats about why a black guy can’t win (And offhandedly mentions indignantly that Black Eyed Peas - which includes a black guy - won over him the previous year). And why did you let Britney Spears do that horrendous performance? Let me (Kanye) do the opening for once! Why let an awkward post-pregnancy physique show on TV? I topped the charts, yo!

Kanye, I feel your pain man. This isn’t an I’m black issue this time. Truth is, MTV is business. Controversy is good for business. Ergo Controversy is good for MTV. Allegedly, Kanye was dragged in to the VMA’s only because he was told that he was going to win an award. Well. He didn’t. They told him he was going to perform first up. HE DID NOT. So why is the lying necessary? Kanye speculates that it’s all for the moolah. And Oh So Noble Kanye swears off MTV: he states that will not have anything to do with the blood-sucking-capatalist-pigs!

Let’s see.

So how is the man going to survive the cruel mainstream music business without MTV? Who knows. Hop in the indie bandwagon Kanye! It’s so much more fun here.

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By the way, Kanye’s latest single, “Stronger”, the video of which he expected to win in the VMA’s had an old Daft Punk track remixed into it. Now, I’m an even bigger fan of Daft Punk than I am of the Brilliant West. And I found this awesome version of that old hit, “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. Check this out, it’s so cool…