Weekly Analysis 5

Kanye West is considered a hip hop, rap and R & B singer. He released his debut album in 2004 (people.com). He has since released many more albums. He has become famous for not only his songs, but for his outrageous outbursts whenever he gets a chance to be on live television. He was a spokesperson with Mike Meyers for a relief campaign for the hurricane Katrina victims. Kanye West had stated that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” (people.com). The crowd was stunned. I was watching the benefit and was shocked. I was speechless as well as Mike Meyers. Later he told the press that he wanted people to know that he wanted the people to know what was going on with the victims. His outbursts did not stop there. In 2006, during the MTV Grammy awards in Europe, Kanye did not win the best video, so as the award was being presented to the winner, Kanye went up on stage to argue that he should have won the award. Then he stormed off the stage and left the building.
He was not happy when MTV did not offer him to be the opener during the 2007 awards. MTV gave the role to Brittney Spears, and later Kanye stated that he did not get the position because of the color of his skin (Wikipedia). Is he really such a sore loser that he has the need to argue the fact that the fans did not like his video enough to win? It seems that Kanye is the type of person that expects to win, and the more outbursts he makes, the more people will not want to give him the awards.
His latest outburst was during the MTV VMA awards. Taylor Swift won for the best female video. As she was giving her acceptance speech, Kanye West gets on stage and states that Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time, and then he walks off the stage (wikipedia).
He seems the type of person that has no respect for anyone but him. I think that he is a very rude, and is very inappropriate person. I do not think that he should be allowed to be in the running for any awards until he learns how to control his outrageous outbursts. Most of these awards are based on sales and the fans views on the songs and videos.
Is he not winning as many awards because of his outbursts or is it because that the fans really do not think his songs and videos are worth an award?


http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20304330,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West