Kanye West blasts Britney with the race card

by on September 09, 2007 | 24 Comments



Kanye West had to put his two cents in regarding Britney Spears opening for the 2007 Video Music Awards:

“I can’t believe she would perform. She hasn’t had a hit record in years,” he said, apparently miffed that MTV didn’t invite him to open the show. “Maybe my money’s not right. Maybe my skin’s not right.”

Hey, it’s not like Britney is going to win anything there. Girl’s gotta make a comeback, right?

That’s just one reason that I don’t care for Kanye. Dude, the world doesn’t owe you anything, you gotta make your own way. And maybe, your money isn’t right, ya clown. Britney is worth $700k a day.

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  • http://www.2dolphins.com/2006/02/rapper-rant-gangsta-poses/ Rob O.

    Britney’s 15 minutes are definitely up but I can come closer to tolerating her (pitying, actually) than this guy. Kanye and his peeps are just a bunch of constipated thugs.

  • http://earsucker.com/ Roberta

    I hear ya, Rob. I used to really like her music back in the day. Kanye, however, I’ve never liked.

  • Chris

    I like Kanye’s music…some of it. But Britney hosting has nothing to do with race and everything to do with celebrity. If anything, she’s on the cover of more magazines now that her music career has washed up than when it flourished. She’s opening the show because she draws a media crowd. Hell, Whitney Houston, who also hasn’t had a hit in years could easily have been chosen to open a show like this too. It’s not always about race Kanye…though it is a lot of times. lol!

  • http://www.2dolphins.com/2006/02/rapper-rant-gangsta-poses/ Rob O.

    It’s not always about race Kanye…though it is a lot of times

    Not to get too political here, but honestly, Chris, the only time it’s about race is when a black person makes it so. The race thing only even exists anymore because it’s perpetuated by people who benefit from being able to use the race card.

  • Kanye

    I am an egomaniac.

  • Kanye’s Bane

    Wow, he has got to be the biggest crybaby primadonna bitch ever! Come on, he rhymes words over a programmed drum beat!
    Any thing to shut up this dumbass “Bush hates black people-I was Evel Kneivel in a video-wimper-moan-cry”
    He is setting the movement back 200 years with his mouth.
    Brit is an idiot, but even her tabloid covered excess make her seem more intelligent than this little girl.
    Such a stupid bitch he is…

  • Bishop

    50 Cent needs to kick his ass.

  • Bo

    Out of ideas due to a low IQ? Pull out the race card! Brilliant!!!

  • Chris

    Rob, come on man. What world do you live in? I hear so many black jokes, and race based comments and see so many decisions that that have a tinge (sometimes overt, sometimes blatant) that I can’t believe you said that? You must live in some paradise where race is never an issue. Me, I live in the real world. But I call it when I see it. And right now, I sure as hell don’t see it. Only an asshole named Kanye who likes attention. But that’s your opinon and we will differ on it.

  • Cat

    Reason for Britney over Kanye: Who will be the bigger draw. The train wreck that has been Britney for some time guarantees a number of eyeballs on the show. And a lot of those eyeballs wouldn’t tune in except for that train wreck.
    Kanye? Fans of his music would tune in, but not nearly as many.

  • wave

    Kanye is just a whining tool. Not much talent, and a whole heap of inflated ego.

  • http://earsucker.com/ Roberta

    D.C.,
    I think you’ve said it the best!

  • D.C.

    To be honest with all of you, I never really liked either of them. One is a trainwreck of an attention whore, and the other one is far too quick to pull the race card on everything and anything. Being black, I find the fact of Kanye resorting to the race card when things don’t go his way, sickening. It’s even more sickening that any hit he had, he basically stole it from some facet of pop culture. Like the ‘Stronger’ video, clearly ripped from the anime movie, ‘Akira’. Both of them are class-A asses to me.

  • http://earsucker.com Zelda

    Is Rob O. a member of “Hitler’s youth” or what. I don’t agree with Kanye West but the commenet that racism only exists because minorities recognize it is stupid as well as pitiful.

  • Crockett

    Poor Kanye, he’s got rappers and singers busting down his door for beats and sold outrageous numbers of his albums but the poor lad gets bumped by mean ol’ bigoted Mtv for Twitney.

    Seems like everyone’s out to get him: W, Mtv, hell , he probably thinks I’m rascist for disagreeing with him. Get a kleenex and wipe your eyes, you baby,

  • Michael

    Kayne West is a douche bag!

  • http://www.2dolphins.com/2006/02/rapper-rant-gangsta-poses/ Rob O.

    No, I said that racism only exists because minorities perpetuate it. People like Kanye wallow in it like a vat of self-pity instead of examining the root cause of their predicament.

    But I agree with DC, both of these wack-a-doos are media whores and aren’t worthy of our attention – and certainly don’t deserve our dollars.

  • Pfunk

    Here’s my take on it: I’ve been black for 43 years and while racism does exist, there is no denying it, I am sick to death of the phrase ‘race card’. Sick of it.
    That was ONE part of what he said and everyone is jumping on that aspect of it.
    Chalk his comments up to youth, chalk it up to looking to get some publicity–it’s clear that he speaks without censoring himself. As he gets older he may choose his words with more wisdom.
    I can’t defend his words and don’t wish to but whoever said that minorities perpetuate it has got a lot of living to do before he can understand the difference between victimhood and awareness.
    My parents built their own business and I grew up in an affluent community where racism was alive and kickin’.
    I speak out when I’m denied access due to my race or my sex. Is that perpetuating my victimhood or is it standing up for my rights?
    Kanye is YOUNG and impetuous and a millionaire. Guess what? He’s still exposed to racism.
    The MTV debacle wasn’t race based. It was sensationalism, pure and simple. He added to the mix by creating MORE.

    Now for the root cause of my ‘predicament’– my ancestry.
    There’s not a great deal I could do or want to do to change that.
    What I CAN do is make others aware. It’s not about being politically correct, it’s about being precise in our language and our behavior.
    Telling someone to get over it when he or she is denied access due to race, sex, religion, weight, disability is just plain ignorant.
    Educate yourself and learn empathy and compassion.
    There’s not one among us who hasn’t said or done something that they’ve had to re-examine later.

    Wallowing? Come on. In Kanye’s case, it’s simply a matter of making controversial copy.
    Nothing deeper than that.

  • Pfunk

    One more thing:
    No mention of the Kid Rock/Tommy Lee dust up?
    That was just as noteworthy as race baiting, if you ask me.

  • jamie lynn spears

    fuck off people brittany is my sister i’m going on all the websites that r against her and i will seriously sew so fuck off .

  • jamie lynn spears

    fuck off i am really brits sister and i am seriously gona shut off all the websites that talk about my sis and kanye .kanye and britt are done its over who cares fuck off or i’m sewing every website and going on every fucken website to stop this frecken shit
    LEAVE BRITTANY AND KANYE ALONE
    SINCERLY JAIME LYNN SPEARS

  • jamie lynn spears

    SORRY ABOUT THIS BUT I’M MAD HI FANS

  • Kathleen West

    As a Multi-ethnic African American who has often been mistaken for white, Latino, Arab, etc. I know that racism is alive. Even those who think racism is over, subconsciously inflict unfair judgments and accept unfair privilege’s over others at differing sides of the color spectrum. Racism has been a part of our national makeup for too long to have iradicated it in only 30 or so years. It’s ingrained in our culture in more ways than we are even aware. I agree with the person who said they are sick of the term “race card”. This term trivializes the whole race issue. Racism is not a game – it’s real, and it’s painful. On the other hand, I could say that sometimes a person of color must “play a race card” after all white America still holds the whole deck!

  • Francesca

    God that face screams spoiled clueless self-righteous douchebag! What do you expect from someone whose mother wrote a book called “Raising Kanye.”

    I didn’t think there was an artist more insufferable than Avril Lavigne-I was wrong. He truly believes everything is about him.