Five Other Things Kanye Should Apologize For...

Another asshole spectacle, another apology. To be fair, not all of Kanye West's public mishaps have been all-bad (we still salute his awkwardly bold "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" 2005 proclamation). Now as fallout over his controversial upstaging of teen country star Taylor Swift at last night's MTV Video Music Awards continue to follow the outspoken rapper/producer, VIBE thought of a few other violations that deserve a "my bad." --Keith Murphy

808 & Heartbreaks' Shag
Somewhere, the searing image of Mr. Tickle-Me-Emo's new-age mullet is still haunting the souls of barbers, hairstylists, Dr. Cornel West, small third-world children, and raccoons across the globe.

Producing And Rapping On Arguably Blueprint 3's Worst Song
While it's true that Kanye has some stellar moments on Jay-Z's debate-igniting release, it's hard to forgive the man for A) making a beat that sounds like the theme for an early '80s Atari video game and B) rhyming "very" with "Katy Perry." Yikes.


Charging Too Damn Much For Some Louis Vuitton Sneakers
$1,140 bucks...really 'Ye??!!!?

Writing His Blog In Caps
FOR THE LOVE GOD, IT'S CALLED lowercase!

Getting Kicked Out Of The MTV Video Awards Way Too Early
Instead of storming the stage during Swift's acceptance speech, Kanye's Hennessy-induced ranting would have been better served during Eminem's predictable win for Best Hip-Hop Video. Em is cool and all, but 'Ye was getting his Auto-tune on in a white suit, while sitting on a white sofa on a white floor, singing next to white window blinds as a choreographed avant-garde inspired African warrior tribe work it out. Beat that Shady.

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  • Ain't nobody arguing about "Hate" being the worst song on BP3, that song is fire. I guess it's to progressive for VIBE!!! And this post makes you an official Kanye Dick RIDERRR!
  • nyrahbeans
    I, myself, don't want to hear anything about "git down girl, go 'head, git down". These types walk away from their families, refuse to work, and are high all the time. And the white producers come in and say, "this is Black Culture; let's glorify it". Street names that we never needed to have in the first place; they usually meant, "trouble". Otherwise, they'd use their real names. "Jay-Z". Troublemaker name. Most youth aspire to be a rapper or an athlete one day, and we are all telling them to keep their day job, one has got to be practical: This isn't all that we are. Broken English used to be because some of us weren't allowed to go to good schools. Now one can't speak properly? Come on. The fact that this idiot is complaining about a man having to provide child support for a baby ("Golddigger") shows that this is the lowest of the low. Plus, in the Ray Charles song it says SHE's giving him the money, not the other way around (but, we're talking about Ray Charles, so it's a little different). See, whites think that's "hip", seeing some drug-dependent mess and that's who they sign a contract with. It’s like a white person wrote a script for this Kanye fellow on how to act, and he’s still playing into it; giving them what they want. Showing them that he can’t control himself. If they all want to see that we can't live and act right, he is giving them exactly what they want. Aretha Franklin sold morality. Shirley Brown. George Benson. B.B. King. Thurman Ruth's work with the Apollo. Now we are being plagued by the kindergarten posse who wears their older brothers' clothes. Nothing wrong with a man whose pants fit him; he isn't trying to be white. It's hard to earn a living when you gotta pull your pants up all the time. We need to stop giving our dollar to this ill representation, and save it for real talent. Otherwise it makes us all look bad. I don't want my son with his pants down trying to look like these fools. That's being 'black': that your pants are about to fall down at any given second with your rear hanging out? It looks like you got to go to the bathroom, and can't wait. Come on, now. I want to buy an album where the woman isn't a crack addict, the guy isn't trying to act like a "pimp" (this is supposed to be all that it's about?), or the man isn't trying to be "gangsta": These are all lame stereotypes that are only helping the race in this country stay oppressed. Street names and shop fronts have been around as long as our poverty has been it's never done anything but send our people to hell, killing them with the disease of addiction and violence. There's no excuse to glorify it today: we can go to school, get financial aid, and do well, thank you God.
    Maybe I am a little old, but I want to see better contemporary music out there for our youth. It's not fair to them to think that this is all that there is.
  • thank you for posting this!
  • so u telling me that y'all predicted Eminem's We Made You as Best Hip-Hop Video...So u gotta be fucking kidding me??? Em's We Made You aint even real hip-hop with that peewee herman ass flow
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