Kanye West Slams Taylor Swift Again at Intimate New York Concert

By Jason Newman Posted Nov 24th 2010 11:22AM

The rumors began Monday evening, when Teyana Taylor, guest vocalist on Kanye West's recently released new album, tweeted, "Just got to rehearsals for my performance with Mr Ye West tomorrow at the Bowery Ballroom tomorrow Dark Fantasy Baby!" By Tuesday morning, it was music's worst kept secret that West would be performing his new album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,' at the 550-capacity Bowery Ballroom in New York's Lower East Side later that night.

At around 1AM last night, West finally hit the stage to perform the widely-acclaimed album for the first time from start to finish. As Diddy, Q-Tip, Spike Lee, Aziz Ansari, Ivanka Trump, The Roots drummer ?uestlove and fashion designer Tory Burch looked on, the rapper brought out numerous collaborators involved in 'Fantasy,' including rapper Rick Ross, Pusha T, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, producer Swizz Beats and singer-songwriter Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

But after performing the album and a handful of extra tracks, including 'Good Life' and 'Can't Tell Me Nothin,'' West went on an impassioned rant concerning his 2005 comments about George W. Bush and Hurricane Katrina, as well as accusing Taylor Swift of "riding the waves" of his endlessly replayed interruption of the singer at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

A larger chunk of West's monologue:

Everybody needs a villain, don't we? We need to blame someone at all times. For me to be considered a racist for stating a blatant truth, an obvious truth, but the nuances of my words, because I am very particular with my words, and the emotion I felt at that time wasn't worded exactly right -- but everybody came and said 'Oh my God!"...

I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to word it, but I wrote it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it, that's the way I rode the waves of the Bush comment. I rode it. It's not about popular opinion. It's about when you look in your heart, and know what's right and what's wrong. When you look in your heart, look at what the media did, look at how they exploited him, they said that he said it was his lowest moment and as a mass, as America, we took that as a fact.

Vulture's got the full video and transcript:

For the countless people unable to refresh Ticketmaster quick enough to snag the $100 tickets, some lucky buyers were kind enough to offer you their extra for the cost of a small child. A quick Craigslist search revealed tickets going for $250 to $5,000, with one classy scalper "willing to listen to non-monetary offers." The Wall Street Journal reported the opening bid on one eBay auction went as high as $100,000.

Despite having sold out Madison Square Garden, West is still a fan of these small, exclusive affairs. In August, the rapper took the stage with John Legend at Lower East Side club The Box to a crowd of 200 people to debut new material. West is scheduled to perform the 'Fantasy' track 'Lost in the World' with Vernon at the upcoming Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Thursday.

Setlist (h/t to Brooklyn Vegan):

'Dark Fantasy' (with Terena Taylor & Bon Iver)
'Gorgeous'
'Power'
'All of the Lights' (interlude)
'All of the Lights' (with Bon Iver)
'Monster' (with Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver)
'So Appalled' (with Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beatz)
'Devil in a New Dress' (with Rick Ross)
'Runaway' (with Pusha T)
'Hell of a Life' (with Bon Iver)
'Blame Game' (with John Legend)
'Lost in the World' (with Bon Iver)
'Who Will Survive in America'

Encore:
'Christian Dior Denim Flow'
'Can't Tell Me Nothing'
'Paranoid'
'The Good Life'

'Lost in the World' feat. Justin Vernon from Bon Iver

Tags: Kanye West

Comments

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Wednesday 24 November

By ELLEN

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KW NEEDS TO KEEP HIS BIG NASTY MOUTH SHUT. HE IS A PITIFUL ,SAD EXCUSE FOR A SO CALLED MAN. GROW UP !

By lol

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THE TRUTH HURTS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

By OfAlaska

Him so tough, him so cool, him don' havta go to school, pound his chest and start to drool, want them bee-aches kiss his tool, drag his knuckles, pound his stool, wear junk jewelery like a fool...

By Mr. Leo

KANYE = GAY FISH

By dvdfrnzwbr

Who's got the new album out? It appears he is riding the waves.

By Tam

He's a racist, but self hating whites keep running behind him!

Thursday 25 November

By Brian

I agree what a piece of crap.

By RICH

This guy needs a shrink ....ASAP.

By Pete

He is just TRASH with money, they need to send him packen.

By mickey

He says he looks into his heart before he opens his mouth. I guess that tells us a lot about what his heart is made up of.

By Debra

Kanye is Honest, and for thatt I like him!

By Matt

Self Hating Whites??? I think you're confused...for him to use the"race card" shows who hates .

By Lisa

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AMEN SISTA!!

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By Ali

Why do this site keep Kanye up on this site all the time. Why do the posters her keep clicking in. Apparently he is all that.

By Erin

Why is this loser even still around? He needs to learn how to let stuff go. Bush and Swift both have. And Taylor Swift didn't need to defend him in an interview. Why would she? He humiliated her. She doesn't owe that piece of s*it ANYTHING. Go away Kanye. You're worthless and talentless.

By Shelle

Erin....you are awesome and this could not be said any better and be more true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Jeff

Actually, he didn't really humiliate Miss Swift. He humiliated his own worthless self. He only took the microphone from her and took her moment in the light. She came out looking much better and much more graceful due to his ignorance. He proved once again that no matter how much money he has he will still be stupid and worthless. Play the blame game all you want. If you do something at least have the balls to own up to it and don't say poor me later.

By Lynn

Could not have said it better myself. He sounds crazy. Even Beyonce looked at him like he was crazy at the 2009 Music Awards.

By AD

what a thug........YOU CAN TAKE THE THUG OUT OF THE GHETTO,BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GHETTO OUT OF THE THUG

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