Though Herbie Hancock delivered a huge upset by capturing the Album of the Year Grammy that clearly belonged to criminally underappreciated superstar Kanye West and Amy Winehouse selfishly distracted from his four-win night by hoarding five statuettes that would have looked much better upon the humble rapper's mantle (not to mention Winehouse's attention-whore hijacking of the ceremony's precious screentime via satellite), West would, in the end, have his Big Moment, even if he had to fight for it like he's had to battle for every scrap of recognition the System tries to withhold from him.
Some fifteen minutes into the emotional acceptance speech for his Rap Album victory, West chided the producers trying to play him off stage with some "wrap it up" music, then continued on with a rambling, forty-five minute disquisition (which, in fairness, did include a tribute to his mother) on the struggle for respect he may never win, no matter how many more gilded gramophones the Academy grudgingly hands over.
- And the winner is ... Herbie Hancock? [CNN.com]














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goddammit Kanye, I think I showed more than a little restraint by refraining from laughing at the hilarious manner in which your mother died. You ain't getting no more from me.
It took me a minute to figure out what Adam Brody had to do with any of this.
Kanye's continued arrogance truly is breathtaking.
i didn't know the special bus had a stop at the grammy awards.
I wish Kanye and Natalie Cole would fuck each other with sticks of dynamite.
Oh and lol to Kanye using the words "in good taste".
I hear Kanye's ego just got cast in the Cloverfield sequel.
Seriously dude, even James Cameron was tapping you on the shoulder towards the end and whispering, "Yeah, that's a bit much."
"George Bush don't care about Grammys!"
Strong words from a man dressed like Captain EO.
Oh those Canadians and their monster egos!
@IBentMyWookie: You're going to hell.
@Jaguares: aren't we all? We'd be doing well to be sitting in Wookie's section, it would at least be funny.
That music was pumping too. They wanted Kanye's ass off that stage! Ha!
@Sweet Panda Love: I love you for remembering.
Cripes. I've never heard him speak before and I noticed only one thing about his boring, unintelligible speech. For someone whose mother was supposedly a Chair of a college English Department (at a school I've never heard of), his grammar and enunciation seriously suck. I don't think that he constructed a single sentence correctly. If it was so important to pay tribute to his mother in his speech, why didn't he just put together a succinct, moving "Thanks, Mom" speech rather than babble on endlessly about how underappreciated he is, bringing her up as though she were an afterthought, long after time was up?
Geordi La Forge
I've just upgraded Kanye from Mildly Annoying to Massive Tool...
Can't someone shoot him? Or does he have to be a rapper?
I...can't TAKE him anymore. I also cannot stop laughing at his outfit.
He's the Duke of Douchebagia.
Daft Punk should have snatched it right out of his hands.
'Merci! Biotch..."
Get down girl. Go 'head get down.
Come on y'all cut him some slack this one time. Like the kind you would cut to Heath Ledger's family. Keep in mind, though you may not have known or cared about Donda West, he has lots of fans who tuned in to the Grammys to see how he would pay tribute to her. Now, if he continues to be a turd, he gets no more sympathy from me.
self-entitlement > talent
@yvonnjanae: While I do have sympathy for a son who has lost a mother, Kanye only whipped out that sympathy fuck ploy AFTER they started to play him off.
it's because of dipshits like Kanye that I don't listen to music as much anymore.
and @catherinetramell
he has to be a real rapper to get shot. actors OD.
Only one man on Earth can make me think less of Kanye West, and he just did.
For me, that was just a display of undiluted ego (using his dead mother to keep from being played off the stage, bragging about an award he hadn't won yet, chiding another rapper for releasing a new album at the same time as him) that I couldn't possibly be mad at West. It's a work of camp insanity in the same manner as "I drink your milkshake."
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