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June 12, 2008

Kanye Calmly Addresses Heckler, Stumps For Lil Wayne

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The fact that someone heckled Kanye West during his show in Minneapolis isn't surprising. The real news here is that West calmly has the audience point out who "threw shit on the stage" before just as calmly continuing the show. West looks sorta like some kind of mellow-ass soldier from Ancient Rome in front of his swirly pink background. That said, as calm as he is for this minute and half of video, we're sure he'll lose his temper when he finds out someone brought a camera to his show.


(Nahright via PTW)

In more surprising Kanye news, on his blog he's pushing for Lil Wayne to surpass Graduation's week one sales. Seriously. His favorite Tha Carter III track? "Shoot Me Down."

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That's hilarious! I bet the heckler felt a little stupid being pointed out by everyone around.

Posted by: Kimberlee Morrison at 06/12/08 5:06 PM | Reply
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D. Smith produced "Shoot Me Down." The production credits on the first leak were wrong.

Posted by: chr at 06/12/08 6:03 PM | Reply
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brandon

Ah, you're right. Fixed.

Posted by: brandon profile link in reply to chr's comment at 06/12/08 6:37 PM | Reply
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I'm no sycophant, but this is almost as impressive as when he told the conductor to cut the exit music at the Grammy's. However, I'm guessing he probably has this down to a science by now.

Posted by: Finchmeister at 06/12/08 6:04 PM | Reply
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Waitaminute..a bunch of suburban white kids out front at this show?! It's official..black people don't like Kanye

Posted by: piglitz at 06/12/08 6:15 PM | Reply
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ElliotP

damn. he's an asshole.

Posted by: ElliotP profile link at 06/12/08 8:39 PM | Reply
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I was at the show, and those people needed to get kicked out. They threw this lighted ball on stage, that almost hit Kanye, but most of all he had all kind of pyro and other electronic things that could have been damaged. I would have done the same thing. Actually I would have probably freaked out. Over all though the concert was amazing. By far the best concert I've ever been to. Kanye has set a new standard for arena shows. My hat goes off to him. Even with all the people that talk negative of him, I personally just think they're a little jealous.

Posted by: Stephen Lovves at 06/12/08 9:32 PM | Reply
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Elliot

Guys, c'mon. He's just trying to do something different here.

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 06/13/08 2:32 AM | Reply
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"get dat mufuka outta here!" hahaha sucks to be him

Posted by: huh at 06/13/08 5:26 AM | Reply
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stop snitching audience members!

Posted by: pakman profile link at 06/13/08 5:42 PM | Reply
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why would you pay all that money for a kanye ticket, only to heckle the dude?

Posted by: bubba paris at 06/15/08 2:09 PM | Reply
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