Kanye West Stops Concert to Yell At Kid in Wheelchair, ‘Stand Up!’

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At a concert on Friday in Sydney, Australia, the acclaimed rapper called out a pair of fans for not standing up at the show. One had a prosthetic limb, and the other was in a wheelchair.

Oh, Kanye. The acclaimed rapper/self-described Steve Jobs/newly minted Kardashian, who once rapped, “They tryna put me on the schoolbus with the space for the wheelchair,” halted a concert on Friday night after discovering that several audience members weren’t standing up to honor their Lord and Savior.

The setting was the Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney, Australia, and West reportedly announced, “I can’t do this song. I can’t do this show until everybody stand up… Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and shit. ‘Imma see you if you ain’t standing up, believe me, I’m very good at that.” Then came the foot-in-mouth moment. Most of the fans got up and boogied, but soon West spotted a pair of concertgoers who’d remained in their seats, and refused to continue the show until they stood up and danced like the rest. One of those two singled-out fans raised a prosthetic limb, thereby proving that she did in fact “get special parking and shit,” to which West replied, “Okay, you fine.”

West then homed in on Fan No. 2, who was still seated. He stopped performing the tune “The Good Life” and declared, “This is the longest I’ve had to wait to do a song, it’s unbelievable.” The crowd was reportedly trying to clue Kanye in to his epic blunder, with the entire section making wheelchair signals with their arms. But to no avail. West sent his bulky bodyguard Pascal Duvier into the crowd to confirm that the seated fan was, in fact, in a wheelchair. When it was confirmed, West said, “He is in a wheelchair? It’s fine!”

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[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Good god. How did it get this bad? n/t

[ripcord]

27. It is Kanye

he probably thinks he can heal the lame.

[elehhhhna]

31. A: He's an egotistical asshole. This is news?

[Smarmie Doofus]

34. Seems like it's more than that. What about the crowd?

Like Munich .... minus the "sieg heil"s.

[randome]

2. In-fucking-credible.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is hockey football Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]

[treestar]

3. His Lord and Savior would surely approve

of that!!

[Puzzledtraveller]

58. what are you talking about?

[840high]

4. Jerk.

[MineralMan]

5. Morons Abound!

[cali]

6. fuck him. what a flaming piece of shit he is. way to humiliate the disabled.

I wish he and his wife would disappear.

[MANative]

11. One of my fondest wishes...

would be to never hear or see the names "Kardashian" or "Kimye" again.

[Taitertots]

12. Stop watching corporate media and they will disappear

This post is the first time I've heard about Kanye in years.

[yeoman6987]

13. I hope he is a Republican.

That is the only excuse for his horrid behavior.

[thucythucy]

20. Not an excuse really.

More like an explanation.

[snooper2]

63. maybe he is just an asshole?

[JaneyVee]

7. The collapse of western civilization.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. At his next awards ceremony he'll refuse to start the song until Stevie Wonder

removes those stupid sunglasses so he can watch him perform in all his glorious awesomeness.

[Heidi]

9. He would have had a long wait with me, too.

I don't stand up to honor anyone's "Lord and Savior" unless I want to and, I especially don't if someone demands that I do it.

I liked a lot of Kanye West's early work, but this guy is gettin' way too big for his britches.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. '...sent his bulky bodyguard Pascal Duvier into the crowd...'

to do what, exactly? Perform a Walter Sobchak test?

[joeybee12]

14. There's apparently no end to his assholery...

I wonder why anyone goes to a concert by this no-talent shithead who peddles his crap as music.

[alphafemale]

15. I'm not in a wheelchair and I would not stand for your Jesus bullshit.

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you would send a security guard to rough me up to MAKE me stand?

On film.

i'd settle for 2.5 million.

[deafskeptic]

51. Personally,

if that had been me, I would have wanted to sue him until he's broke.

[alphafemale]

69. That line from As Good as it Gets fits here

An absolute horror of a human being.

[IronGate]

17. What a POS extraordinarie. nt.

[lpbk2713]

18. Humiliate people much?

Yup. You deserve a real live Kardashian award.

[VScott]

19. I can't belive that talentless waste of skin even has fans.

[Kurska]

21. Narcissism is a hell of a drug n/t

[steve2470]

26. yep, dude is narcissism on steroids nt

[deafskeptic]

52. yeah, and everyone but the narcissist suffers from it :P n/t

[Orrex]

22. Kanye West don't care about disabled people.

[etherealtruth]

35. + infinity

[Paladin]

23. But I'm sure Kanye West is really, really, REALLY sorry about this, today.

I'm sure the public apology and donation to an appropriate charity have been made, right? Fucking asshole.

[NightWatcher]

24. Why anyone would pay to go to his concerts amazes me.

It doesn't excuse this jack ass, but I wonder about an arena of people who paid to see this idiot.

[jwirr]

25. "It's fine"? No it is not he owes them a public apology. He shamed them publically.

[onecaliberal]

28. Why would anyone give up their money

To see this epic disaster?

[Scootaloo]

32. Oh, hardly

Kanye's an asshat.

Nugent is a screaming violent pedophile who waves automatic weapons around on stage while threatening to murder political figures

But I guess some people are going to put a black jackass on the same level as a white psychopath with heavy weaponry.

[Anansi1171]

33. You are correct. I'm deleting. -nt

[Orrex]

39. :thumbsup:

[msongs]

30. made millions peddling smut to kids. no conscience or morals. deport him nt

[AngryOldDem]

36. Fuck him and his bloated ego. n/t

[Initech]

37. Kanye West - the Miracle Fail!

[hughee99]

38. Kanye West doesn't care about disabled people. n/t

[Orrex]

40. That's the dumbest thing I've ever read.

.

[hughee99]

43. I should have read the whole thread before posting

You beat me to it by a few hours.

[Separation]

44. I'm guessing its a play on words

His Katrina remarks with Mike Myers

[U4ikLefty]

45. OMG...genius!!! n/t

[Orrex]

50. Nah, that can't be it.

Who would post such a ridiculous thing?

[Raine]

41. JERK!!! nt

[U4ikLefty]

42. From a previous thread: Metal fans know how to treat fans in wheelchairs.

See the video at 3:37

BTW, Mayhem Festival rules!!!

[benld74]

46. Kayne, Kardashian and Klass,,,,,

[Cha]

56. right.. stay Klassy, Kanye.

[former9thward]

47. It happens, as Joe Biden knows.

Joe Biden, D-Delaware, told Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham to stand up. Graham is confined to a wheelchair.

[Liberal_in_LA]

48. what if your feet just hurt? he's going to humiliate u for not standing?

[Jamaal510]

49. I couldn't find

the video, but this story reminds me of the Family Guy episode where Peter was making a sex flick. At one point during the making of the movie, he told Joe to get out of his wheelchair and walk, but Joe told him that he can't, so Peter electrocuted him with some stick.
Just like with Peter Griffin, Kanye's crazy ass apparently thinks that a paraplegic person can automatically get up and walk immediately.

[alp227]

67. Fox uses copyright holder status to wipe Family Guy, etc clips from YouTube,

which is why it's hard to find Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. on YouTube.

[Jamaal510]

70. Yeah I know.

That always annoyed me so much.

[SomethingFishy]

53. Wait.. wait... The man sent his bodyguard into the audience

to see if the person who was not standing was in a wheelchair? And what if he wasn't? Would the guard have forced him to stand?

News for Kanye and most of the current performers on the road. People standing up is an ovation, it's supposed to be done when you play well. Just like an encore used to be when the audience demands one. Not tacked on the end of every show.

The level of narcissism it takes to demand someone stand up at your show is beyond me. Fuck you I paid to be there, if I want to sit I fucking will. Not that I would waste money to see Kimye.

[CreekDog]

54. His wife might just divorce him over this

Or anything else

[beam me up scottie]

57. If I was his 'Lord and Savior' I would have made a personal appearance

and kicked Kanye's ass up between his shoulderblades.

[PragmaticLiberal]

59. Imo, this has been blown out of proportion a bit.

Yeah, it's embarrassing but it's not like he was just picking on a wheelchair-bound person for the hell of it.

Basically, West pulled "a Biden".

[City Lights]

60. He is an overrated, arrogant piece of shit. nt

[lost-in-nj]

61. Here's the video

lost

[aikoaiko]

62. Yeezus fail.

[NaturalHigh]

64. As President Obama said, "He's a jackass."

[Initech]

65. Yeezus.

[LisaL]

66. He is so full of himself.

Boggles the mind.

[bobGandolf]

68. What a flaming a-hole! n/t